way. A comparison of the Skottowe and Yarmouth cups will show conclusively that they are from the hand of the same artist, the character of the work being exactly similar in both.

By the courtesy of Sir John Evans I am able to exhibit yet another example of a very similar beaker (plate 4) which, though it has no connection with Norwich, is interesting as illustrating how common was the design at this period; for though not exactly similar, there is a very close resemblance between it and all the other examples we have been considering. The marks on this cup are:

1. Leopard's head crowned.
2. The letter a.

3. An eagle displayed.

which show it as of London make, of the year 1618.

We have thus had five examples before us, which I will call respectively the Norwich, Ellon, Yarmouth, Skottowe and London beakers. The form in all is practically the same, and the ornament very similar; in fact, in the case of the first three, almost identical, and it is, I feel sure, in all cases of English workmanship. The form is however Dutch; indeed one of the examples owns to an Amsterdam origin, while both the Norwich and Skottowe cups bear a third mark which has not been identified as English. Four of our five beakers, moreover, are found in districts having close trade relations with the Low Countries. I have sometimes thought that these beakers might have been imported as it were in the rough, and ornamented here to meet the taste of the English market, the engraver in all the instances, with the exception of the Ellon cup, adding his own mark, with the stamp of the town in which he worked. We do not know what the practice as to the marking of foreign plate imported into this country may have been at this date, but it would seem reasonable to suppose that the addition of an English mark would command a better sale for the article on which it was placed. Moreover, if I am correct in holding that the ornament was in all cases added in England, there was at any rate some ground for stamping them here.

In conclusion it may be well to set down the fate of the four cups since they left the possession of the Dutch Church. When it was proposed to sell them they were sent in the first instance, I believe, to Mr. Moens, by whom they were exhibited 1 The design is very common at this date in English work. For other instances of it see Cripps (op. cit.), 207. The same author's College and Corporation Plate (London, 1891), 66. 71, 73. Surrey Arch. Coll. xiii, 61.

at the Royal Society of Antiquaries, while at the same time copies of them were made by Mr. G. Lambert. On Thursday, June 18th, 1891 they were sold at Messrs. Christie, Manson and Woods' Rooms. The first was bought by Mr. Levine on behalf of Mr. J. J. Colman of Norwich, in whose possession it now is. The second went to Messrs. Vander and Hedges, and is now owned by Mr. J. C. J. Drucker. The third and fourth were bought by Mr. Samuel, of Norwich, from whom they passed into my hands.2 Notices of them will be found in the Norfolk Archæology, where they are figured and described.3

1 Proceedings, (2nd series 1891), xiii, 121.

2 The East Anglian, vol. iv (new series), 106, 114.

3 Vol. x (1888).

[The Plates referred to in the foregoing paper will be found opposite page 454.]

PLATES REFERRED TO IN THE FOREGOING

PAPER.

PLATE I. One of the four Communion Cups of the Dutch Church at Norwich.

II. Cup, originally from Yarmouth, now in the possession of Mr. Samuel, of Norwich.

III.

IV.

V.

Cup, the work of Timothy Skottowe, of Norwich.

Cup in the possession of Sir John Evans, K.C.B.

Plate marks of the Yarmouth Cup (pl. II).

VI. Fig. 1.

Fig. 2.

(pl. I).

Plate marks of the Skottowe Cup (pl. III).
Plate marks of the Dutch Church Cups