PATENS (1); with foot. Diameter 6 inches; height 13 inch. : Marks leopard's head crowned; maker M. L between two quatrefoils above and below in a diamond shield; Roman capital Q for 1731; lion passant. (2) fits Cup; upper side plain, with central depression. Diameter 6 inches; rim 13 inch; height inch. Engraved beneath is:-AD. USUM. ECCLESIÆ. SCTI NICHOLAI APUD RATTLESDEN . A.D. 1892. IN. MEMORIAM. E. J. H. Also the following design;- -a maltese cross with rays, upon which is a trefoil containing three purses (emblems of S. Nicholas); with the letters S N at base. The whole device is placed within a trefoil-headed border. M B Marks leopard's head; makers R for 1892; lion passant. A T ; FLAGON tankard-shaped. Inscribed:-" Dedit T. Cowper, Rector 1790." Height 11 inches. Weight, as per Terrier, 24 oz. Marks: leopard's head crowned; lion passant. On foot; maker I. R; Roman capital O for 1729 ; lion passant ; head of George 11. On lid I . R. SPOON STRAINING: apostle at top, and next the bowl an angel with a dragon at his feet; handle twisted; bowl gilt within. length 6 inches; bowl 14 inch long; inch wide. Total Marks: leopard's head; maker GA; small old English p for 1870; lion passant; head of Victoria. Height 8 inches; diameter 5 inches; depth 5 inches. Thus inscribed :-" Ex Dono Roberti Davers Baronetti"; arms mantled; argent on a bend gules, three martlets, or. in chief point, Ulster badge. Crest upon an esquire's helmet a bird holding a ring in its beak. Marks leopard's head crowned; maker I. R; small black letter e for 1683; lion passant. PATEN: Cover to Cup; crest under the foot. Diameter 6 inches; height 14 inch. Marks: same as on Cup. FLAGONS: two, tankard-shaped. On them "Ex Dono Roberti Davers, Baronetti," and arms on tankard, and crest on lid. CUPS (1) Elizabethan, around the rim a band of interlaced strap and foliated work, below the bowl vertical line molding. Height 6 inches; diameter 33 inches; depth 4 inches. : Marks leopard's head crowned; maker's a star with W in centre; small black letter e for 1562; lion passant. (2) engraved with I H C in splendour, and underneath :-" To the glory of God and in memory of Fanny Isabella Wilson who departed this life June 20, 1887." The donor of this, Paten (1) and Flagon (1), was the Rev. Cyril Fitz Roy Wilson, formerly rector. Height 7 inches; diameter 4 inches; depth 24 inches. Marks leopard's head; date letter in cusped and pointed shield lion passant; head of Victoria. 1; PATENS: (1) same monogram and inscription as on Cup (2). for ever." Diameter 64 inches. Marks as on Cup (2). (2) a small square SALVER on four feet, corners cut off, and rim turned up. Marks leopard's head crowned; maker capital G T or C T script ; small Roman e for 1740; lion passant. FLAGONS: (1) ewer-shape, holding a pint. Inscription on band :-"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace. Height 9 inches. Marks: same as on Cup (2), also same inscription. (2) Pewter, tankard-shaped, quart size. have ALMS DISHES: (1) brass, with the inscription :- Freely ye received freely give": beneath, "In mem. B. C. R. bapt. 22 Feb. 1885." B. C. R. stands for Bernard Charles Reade, son of R. C. L. Reade, then rector of Stowlangtoft, now (1895) vicar of St. Mary's, Somers Town, London. (2) Pewter. Spackman, London. THURSTON. S. PETER.. CUP nearly straight sided, bears the sacred monogram with cross and nails in glory. Inscription:-Thurston Parish, Will Smith Tho, Jannings Churchwardens. Height 73 inches; diameter 4 inches; depth 4 inches. Marks leopard's head crowned; maker R L with quatrefoil beneath; black letter capital S for 1675; lion passant. PATEN with foot, ornament and inscription as on Cup. Diameter 5 inches; height 14 inch. Maker's mark only, an anchor between and H and (?) in a shield. Marks: a crown over E M & Co; E in a square; M & Co in an oblong; a small circle with a dot in centre within a diamond. Inscription:-Thurston Parish Presented by the Communicants 1855 Will Smith Tho* Jannings, Churchwardens. (2) pewter, tankard shaped, quart size. ALMS DISHES: (1) Inscribed :-Thurston Parish, Presented by Mr J. B. Blake 1855, Willm Smith Thos Jannings Churchwardens. A Marks leopard's head; maker & in a quatrefoil; old English capital G for 1840; lion passant; head of Victoria. (2) pewter. TOSTOCK. S. ANDREW. CUP Elizabethan, plain, bell shaped, no marks. Height 5 inches; diameter 3 inches; depth 34 inches. Marks leopard's head crowned; small black letter a for 1558; lion passant. (2) pewter, with foot; diameter 5 inches; height 1 inch. WOOLPIT. S. MARY. CUPS (1) Elizabethan, bell shaped. Inscription under foot :Deo et Ecclesiae Parochiali de Wul Pit in Comit Suffolk 1636, 20 oz. (?) dr lacke 1d wt Height 8 inches; diameter 4 inches; depth 4 inches. Marks leopard's head crowned; small black letter t for 1576; lion passant. 2) goblet shaped; on the bowl this Inscription:-1773 Johan. Sudbury nuper Decan. Dunelm. Henrico Homer A. B. Coll: Emman. Aièr ȧpioτévei; underneath the foregoing Emmanuel College Arms, impaling Ermine a Fess Gules, in oval with wreaths and ribbons. Round foot " The cup of blessing which we bless is it not the communion of the blood of Christ." Underneath :-"The Gift of the Widow of the Rev. Spencer Cobbold for Woolpit Church. Mr Cobbold was for many years Rector of Woolpit, Mrs C's maiden name was Homer, the above Henry Homer being her brother.. Height 9 inches; diameter 5 inches; depth 4 inches. Marks anchor; maker's mark (1); date mark D in plain pointed shield, i.e. Birmingham 1776-7 according to Cripps, but this does not agree with date in inscription. PATEN also cover to Cup (1). Marks the same. ALMS DISH: pewter; plated, Dixon and Son. No inscription. REMARKS ON THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN EAST ANGLIA. BY REV. JOHN JAMES RAVEN, D.D., F.S.A., Vicar of Fressingfield with Withersdale, and Honorary Canon of Norwich Cathedral. The very name of education is terrible to many people. Some associate it with divers pains and penalties of a corporal description, from which, as will be seen, it was no more free in earlier days than at present. With others it seems to be connected with aching heads and sorrow-stricken faces, the fruitless calling on a defective memory to supply something to satisfy the stern presence of inspector or examiner, or to manufacture matter for an untouched sheet of paper on which the candidate's eye vaguely rests. Much of this, however, is mere bogeytalk, and those who see educational machinery at work know that neither class-room nor examination-hall have exerted much noxious effect in damping the natural spirits of young people. A few remarks on the progress of education in East Anglia from the formation of the See of Dunwich to the Reformation, may, perhaps, find a fitting place in the Journal of our Society. In all great towns of the Roman Empire schools arose, teaching geometry and arithmetic, grammar and metre, rhetoric and logic, according to the wants, or the tastes of the inhabitants. France, so much nearer to the great Imperial centre, was better illuminated and warmed by the rays which emanated from it, than could have been the case with our island, cut off from the whole globe; and perhaps no town in France, in spite of its casualties, exhibited the elastic power of education so fully as that now obscure place, Autun. The half-rebel Tetricus burnt the place down in 270, but Constantine rebuilt it, and restored its studies. In 406 the Vandals burnt the new city, and only eight years afterwards it suffered another conflagration at the hands of the Burgundians. Here they established their first kingdom, which underwent a rude shock and another combustion from the Huns in 451, but recovered itself, and apparently flourished in the arts of peace till 539, when the Franks once more reduced the city to ashes. The first Burgundian kingdom then perished, to revive in a new form after the lapse of three centuries, but the Burgundian name survived; and to us of East Anglia the survival of the name has a peculiar interest, for in 630, in the interval between the two Burgundian kingdoms, came the Burgundian Felix to Dunwich, first Bishop of the East Angles, and a zealous promotor of all sound learning as well as religious education. The troubles which had disturbed East Anglia, about the time of the assassination of King Erpenwald, had driven his half-brother Sigebert out of the country. He had sojourned in Burgundy. Here he had been baptized, and on his return to East Anglia, in imitation of the Schools of Burgundy, he established a School for youth to be instructed in letters. In this he was helped by Felix, sent into East Anglia, to work amongst his people, by Archbishop Honorius. Amongst the labours of Felix was the organization of this school, which he furnished with masters and teachers after the manner of Kent, whence he had lately come.* It was well that the torch of learning should have been lighted over Western Europe, for while this School, * Bede. Eccl. Hist. III. 18. |