. The pewter collector : a guide to English pewter with some reference to foreign work . CHURCH PEWTER 121 After the Reformation, when Communion in both kindsbecame the rule, a change in the size of the cups wasnecessary, as well as in the size of the flagons. The 20th Canon of 1603-4 enacts as follows : * Wine werequire to be brought to the Communion table in a cleanand sweet standing pot or stoup of pewter—if not of purermetal. Previous to this date and this enactment, flagonswere extremely scarce in churches, and it is probable thatnone were in use for the Communion before the last tenyears
. The pewter collector : a guide to English pewter with some reference to foreign work . CHURCH PEWTER 121 After the Reformation, when Communion in both kindsbecame the rule, a change in the size of the cups wasnecessary, as well as in the size of the flagons. The 20th Canon of 1603-4 enacts as follows : * Wine werequire to be brought to the Communion table in a cleanand sweet standing pot or stoup of pewter—if not of purermetal. Previous to this date and this enactment, flagonswere extremely scarce in churches, and it is probable thatnone were in use for the Communion before the last tenyears or so of the sixteenth century. The earliest tall straight-bodied flagons, made in silver,were made in 1602. Some of these are still extant. Thereare two at New College, Oxford (1602). Brasenose has apair dated six years later, and Salisbury Cathedral has a pairmade in 1610. These silver flagons, as was usually the case, set thefashion, and the shape was copied in pewter. At Strood,near Rochester, an inventory notes the purchase fromRobert Ewer in 1607 (for 9/6) two pewter pots to
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