The Archaeological journal . classification ; but it would come under the earliestclass in the more general classification adopted in OldEnglish Plate by the present writer. There is no possiblereason, even if examples are seldom found to illustrate thepoint, why a later artist should not, now and then, recur tovessels of an earlier period than his own for his model ;and it may very well be that this has happened in thepresent case. All that can positively be said of it is thatit is earlier in style than the Gothic series of chalices whichcome next in date to those with circular feet. These co
The Archaeological journal . classification ; but it would come under the earliestclass in the more general classification adopted in OldEnglish Plate by the present writer. There is no possiblereason, even if examples are seldom found to illustrate thepoint, why a later artist should not, now and then, recur tovessels of an earlier period than his own for his model ;and it may very well be that this has happened in thepresent case. All that can positively be said of it is thatit is earlier in style than the Gothic series of chalices whichcome next in date to those with circular feet. These com-mence in the middle of the fourteenth century, thoughan example of earlier character, might well be found afterthe newer fashion had established itself. The Paten whichwas found with the Chalice is of the character usuallyidentified with the Gothic period; but it should be noticedthat there is little of the Lombardic in the character ofthe lettering in which the inscription running round thecentral deviee is ? -. ON A MEDLEVAL CHALICE AND PATEN FOUND IN WALES. 85 The six-lobed form of paten has seldom or never beenfound with coffin chalices, and as massing plate is notusually referable to an earlier period than the fourteenthcentury. There remains to notice the inscription which occursunder the foot of the cup in small capital letters verylike those which appear on the paten. This runs as follows :—NICOLVS ME FECIT DE HERFORDIE. This Nicholas has not as- yet been authoritatively identified, but afriend has drawn the writers attention to the fact thatin Cookes Continuation of Hereford Antiquities, , pp. 8G-91, a celebrated divine called Nicolus (orNicolas) Herfordie nourished at Hereford about theyear 1382, and seems to have been a person of someimportance. Time and further research will clear up hisconnection with these interesting relics, if there is any ;but in the meantime there is nothing in the character ofthe Paten, and very little in that of the Chalic
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