is that a good deal of it was made at York, a city where the craft of goldsmiths flourished till it seems to have been displaced by the rising wealth and importance of Newcastle upon Tyne. The quantity of plate made in the latter city from about the year 1670 onwards is immense, and the activity of the trade there perhaps accounts not only for the quantity of modern church plate found of local make in the two counties, which are the subjects of this paper, but for the absence of the usual proportion of Elizabethan specimens. SCALE WODNI 1371 Elizabethan Communion Cup, Dinsdale Church (see p. 254). Much that seemed old-fashioned to the eyes of Georgian times went into the melting pots of Newcastle to make way for what was thought no doubt more suitable or more tasteful, and this has deprived the writer of a great deal of the archaeological materials which the chronicler of the church plate in more southern counties has had the interesting task of describing. The following lists indicate the date and origin of most of the more important pieces now remaining in Northumberland and Durham, and a reference to it will bear out the remarks which have bere been made upon it. In conclusion, the writer hopes that, although of less interest, on the whole, from the above circumstances, enough has been said to induce all who are concerned with the care and custody, or the love of the old church plate of these counties (be it better or worse, it is at all events representative of the real piety and generosity of those who have preceded us), to preserve it for the future from reckless alteration or unauthorized alienation. I.-LONDON PLATE. (Elizabethan.) Two cups and paten covers, each dated 15711 All Saints, N'c. 1570 1570 1571 Cup ... Paten cover, dated 1571; maker, two crescents back to back St. John, N'castle. Bolam. 1571 Cup and paten cover, dated 1571, usual band. IF Bothal. 1571 Cup and paten cover, dated 1571; usual band. HW; pellet above and below 1571 Cup; usual band Kirkhaugh. 1571 Cup; usual band. HS, interlaced; for Henry Sutton (?) Newbiggen. ... (Seventeenth Century.) Date. LIST OF OLD NORTHUMBERLAND CHURCH PLATE.-Continued. Article and Maker's Mark. Place. LONDON PLATE-(Eighteenth Cent.)—Continued. ... Flagon, dated 1793. GS; probably Geo. Seatoun 1780 1788 1793 1796 1799 1799 Flagon given 1840. IR; John Robins КН SH ; R. & S. Hennell Falstone. Ilderton. Date. IN NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. LIST OF OLD NORTHUMBERLAND CHURCH PLATE.-Continued. 261 Article and Maker's Mark. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE PLATE.-Continued. Place. 1741 1742 for Isaac Cookson ... ... Tumbler-shaped cup. W for Wm. Partis ... Cup, dated 1749. Isaac Cookson 1743 1744 Cup. Wm. Partis 1749 1750 1752 Knaresdale. Rothbury. St. Andrew, N'c. Allendale Town. Halton. Henshaw. Hartburn. Birtley. Whalton. Alms dish and paten, given 1751. Isaac Cookson Eglingham. 1752 Cup and paten, dated 1753 Berwick. Paten, dated 1755. Langlands and Goodricke 1757 Cup and paten, dated 1762. for J. Langlands Flagon and paten, dated 1763. [IK] for John Kirkup Long Benton. Cup. IC for James Crawford Two cups and paten, dated 1768. John Kirkup Small cup on low foot. John Langlands Cup, given 1773. Crawford IC, as in 1769, for James Cup, given 1773. John Langlands Paten, dated 1776. John Langlands ... ... Two flagons, dated 1776. John Langlands ... Oviform cups, dated 1778. John Langlands 1784 Four alms dishes, dated 1785 (and wine strainer, no date letter). I·L for Langlands and Ninebanks, West St. Anne, N'c. Rothbury. Belford. Beadnell. Bothal. St. John Lee. St. Andrew, N'c. Kyloe. All Saints, N'c. St. Andrew, N'c. St. John, N'c. |