mark, as on No. 2. Engraved

cross in the centre, and band of foliage ornament on the rim.

5. FLAGON.-Silver. H. 8 in., diam. neck 1 in., body 5 in., foot 3 in., [w.] 11 oz. 3 dwts. Hallmarks: London, 1870. Maker's mark as on No. 3.

This is an ewer of modern ecclesiastical pattern (cf. Steeple Claydon (above), No. 5), with a globular body on a high spreading hexagonal foot; long narrow neck with spout and cover, and angular handle. On the neck and round the body are ornamental bands with hemispherical bosses and engraved foliage ornaments, and an engraved ornament of rays is on the shoulder. Nos. 3, 4, 5 are evidently designed to form a set, in spite of the slightly later date of No. 5.

S. Leonard.

GRENDON UNDERWOOD.

543.

1. CUP WITH COVER-PATEN.-Silver. H. 5 in., diam. bowl 2 in., base 2ğ in., depth of bowl 2ğ in., [w.] 4 oz. 10 dwts. Hallmarks: London, 1569. Maker's mark: I P in shaped shield (cf. the Cups No. 1 at Granborough (542), Oving (547), and Padbury (548 O.E.P.4 (1566 and later years), p. 345). This is a very small example of the normal form, with double-conical knobbed stem; it has two belts of the usual ornament on the bowl, but with pendants pointing inwards; and on the knob and the foot the ornament of lines and dashes (Plate I.).

2. COVER-PATEN OF No. 1.-Silver. H. 1 in., diam. 3 in., handle-foot 1, [w.] 1 oz. 12 dwts. Hallmarks and maker's mark as on No. 1. This is of high proportions, and with a rather broad brim; it has a belt of the usual ornament

upon its convex part, and the date, 1570,
engraved across the handle-foot.

3. PATEN.-Plated. H.in., diam. 8 in. Quite plain.

4. FLAGON.-Plated. H. 6 in., diam. top 8 in., base 4 in. This is of the broad tankard shape with spout the cover is broken off.

5, 6. ALMSDISHES.-Two, of brass; modern.

HILLESDEN.

All Saints.

544.

1. FLAGON.-Silver. H. 12 in., diam. top 4g in., base 73 in., w. (engraved twice within the foot), 64 oz. 3 dwts. Hallmarks: London, 1736. Maker's mark: I w. in shaped_punchmark (= James Wilkes ? f. Cripps, O.E.P.4 (1731), p. 399). All the marks are repeated inside the lid, and the maker's mark on the handle also.

This large and massive piece is of the usual form, with cylindrical body and very wide spreading foot. On the front of the body is the Sacred Monogram, with cross and nails, within a circle of rays; below this, within scrollwork, are the arms quarterly 1 and 4, arg., two bars gu., in chief three cinquefoils sa. (= Denton); 2 and 3, vert, a lion passant [ between three annulets ( ); below is the inscription:-"The Gift of the Honble Alexander Denton | one of the Justices of His Majesty's Court of Common | Pleas, and Chancellor to his Royal Highness Frederick Prince of Wales, | to ye Parish of Hillesden in the County of Bucks. 1737."

],

This Flagon lay for many years among the Denton family plate, and was only restored to the Church within living memory. To these circumstances probably it owes its preservation, for local tradition relates that all the Church Plate was stolen from the vestry, and that thereafter the vestry window was made secure by the iron

bars which still exist. Of this robbery there is no documentary evidence, but the unusual occurrence of a flagon older than any of the other vessels, together with the circumstance of its alienation, strongly confirms the story. A probable date for the robbery is given by that of the chalice, which must have been acquired immediately after.

Alexander Denton, second son of Alexander Denton and Hester his wife, was born August 14th, 1679, and succeeded his brother Edmund in 1714, and married in 1716, Catherine, daughter and heiress of John Bond of Sundridge, county. Kent, who was buried at Hillesden, July 5th, 1733. He sat for Buckingham from 1708 to 1722, when he was made Justice of the Court of Common Pleas. He became Chancellor to the Prince of Wales, and died 1738.*

2. CUP.- Silver. H. 7 in., diam. bowl 3 in., base 33 in., depth of bowl 24 in., [w] 5 oz. 18 dwts. Hallmarks: London, 1811. Maker's mark N H with series-mark K (= Duncan Urquhart and Naphthali Hart; Cripps O.E P. (1791), p. 402).

This cup has a rather small, shallow bowl, and slender stem with knob, and is of the plain, formless work of the period (Plate I.).

3. PATEN.-Plated. H. in., diam. 9 in. It stands on three small bosses or feet; and has neither marks nor inscription.

4. CAUDLE CUP?-Plated, or base silver without marks. H. 6 in., diam. bowl 4 in., base 4 in., depth of bowl 5 in.

This peculiar vessel may have been used temporarily as a chalice after the disappearance of the old vessels, otherwise its presence here is unexplained. 5. ALMSDISH.-Brass; modern.

For the family of Denton, see Browne Willis. History of the Hundred of Buckingham, p. 193, ff.

MARSH GIBBON.

The Assumption of the B. V. Mary.

545.

1. CUP WITH COVER-PATEN.-Silver. H. 6ğ in., diam. bowl 4 in., base 4 in., depth of bowl 4 in., [w] 9 oz. 7 dwts. Hallmarks: London, 1674, with the lion repeated inside the foot. Maker's mark: T. C., a dolphin above, a fleur-de-lys below; all in a shaped shield (Cripps O.E.P.4 (1677), p. 364). Plain hammered work. Inscription on the bowl: Marfh-Gibbons, Bucks. 1675. (Plate I.)

2. COVER-PATEN OF No. 1.-Silver.

H. 1 in., diam.

5 in., foot 3 in., [w] 5 oz. Hallmarks and maker's mark as on No. 1. Quite plain. Inscription on the base: Marfh-Gibbons Buks. 1675. (Plate I.).

3. PATEN OR ALMSDISH.-Silver. H.in., diam. 8 in., w (engraved on underside) 11 [oz.] -15 [dwts.]-0 [grs.]. Hallmarks: London, 1720.

Maker's mark, H Ein quatrefoil punchmark.

Quite plain. Inscription on underside :-
In usum Ecclesia de Marfh-Gibbon in Com. Bucks.
D.D.D. Rob. Clavering, S.T.P.

Robert Clavering, son of Robert Clavering, Gent.,
was a graduate of Lincoln College, Oxford;
M.A., Edinburgh, 1693; M.A., Oxon, 1696;
Fellow and Tutor of University College, 1701;
Canon of Christ Church and Regius Professor
of Hebrew, 1715; Rector of Hadley in Suffolk,
and Dean of Bocking in Essex, in 1714, which
latter he left, in 1719, in order to live nearer
Oxford, and accordingly was instituted to
Marsh Gibbon July 17th, 1719. In 1725 he
became Bishop of Llandaff and Dean of Here-
ford, and was translated to Peterborough in

1729, still holding Marsh Gibbon, however, in the year 1735. He died July 21st, 1747.* 4 FLAGON.-Plated. H. 11 in., diam. top 4 in., base 6 in. Without ornament or inscription; it has a false bottom halfway up, corresponding with a prominent moulding on the outside: cf. (538) No. 5.

5, 6. PAIR OF CRUETS.- Glass, silver-mounted. Hallmarks: London, 1878. Maker's mark :

J. C. S.

S. Mary.

NORTH MARSTON.

546.

1. CUP WITH COVER-PATEN.-Silver. H. 53 in., diam. bowl 3 in., base 3 in., depth of bowl 3 in, [w.] including the COVER-PATEN, 7 oz. 6 dwts. Hall-marks: London, 1569. Maker's mark: HS linked, within a rounded shield (= Henry Sutton? cf. Cripps O.E.P.4 (1570), p. 346; same device in shaped shield, cf. the Cups at Steeple Claydon and Twyford, q.v.). A small example of the normal type, with the usual belt of ornament on the bowl, and the small eggmoulding on the outermost band of the foot. The Cup in the neighbouring parish of Whitchurch (580 No. 1, cf. RECORDS OF BUCKS, VII., p. 427) is by the same maker (Plate I., ornament Plate II., 4).

in.,

H. about
Same date and

2. COVER-PATEN or No. 1.-Silver. diam. 3 in., [w] 1 oz. 5 dwts. maker. Ornament of lines of dashes: much battered.

3. PATEN. Electroplate. H.in., diam. 41. “Pratt & Son. London."

4. PATEN OR ALMSDISH.-Plated copper.

diam. 9 in. No marks; quite plain.

H. in.

5. FLAGON.-Plated copper. H. 8 in., diam. top 4 in., base 5 in. Of the ordinary form, and quite plain.

* Cf. Foster's Alumni Oxonienses and Index Ecclesiasticus; Dict. Nat. Biogr. s.v. Browne Willis, History of the Hundred f Buckingham, p. 243. Hearne, iii., 125-209; Rawlinson, iii., 184; Gutch MS. 374.