. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . fineness, 18 or22 carats, indicating that it contains 6 or 2 degrees of alloy, pure gold being24 carats fine. Lower standards of gold are legalized, provided they do notcontain less then one-third pure gold, but these inferior standards are notrequired to be stamped. Mr. Cripps dols not, however, confine himself to the manufactureand process of assaying and marking of plate -to which, perhaps, we havegiven more space than we should have done—but he traces the causeswhich led to the wholesale destruction of the ecclesias
. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . fineness, 18 or22 carats, indicating that it contains 6 or 2 degrees of alloy, pure gold being24 carats fine. Lower standards of gold are legalized, provided they do notcontain less then one-third pure gold, but these inferior standards are notrequired to be stamped. Mr. Cripps dols not, however, confine himself to the manufactureand process of assaying and marking of plate -to which, perhaps, we havegiven more space than we should have done—but he traces the causeswhich led to the wholesale destruction of the ecclesiastical vessels withwhich our churches were enriched in pre-reformation times, upon whichsubject he has touched in his interesting essay on the Ancient ChurchPlate at Cirencester, printed at page 92 of this volume, but he describesalso the usage of this country in respect to plate, and gives engravings ofmany beautiful examples both of decorative and domestic articles. Wecan strongly commend this charming book to all who are interested inthe subject to which it Attcicitt Tile in Canytigrs i/oi/sf, Brislnl 182 We cannot close the first part of this volume without recordingthe great loss sustained by the Archaeological world in the prematuredeath of the Rev. James Gerald Joyce, , tie gifted author ofRemarks on the Fairford Windows printed in this volume, whichoccurred at his rectory, after a short and acute illness, on 28th Junelast, whilst his Paper was passing through the press. Mr. Joyce took a second class in Classics at Oxford,in 1846, and was,the same year, admitted to Holy Orders. After holding the vicarageof Burford, in this county, he was preferred, in 1855, on the presenta-tion of the Duke of Wellington, to the Rectory of Stratfieldsaye. His contributions to Archaeological literature have been numerous,but it will be sufficient here to mention his Accounts of his Explora-tions of the Roman Remains at Silchester, which have, from time totime, appeared in
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