. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . ign of Queen Anne are alittle more uniform, with narrower and cylindrical bowls. Anexample at Coates is a good illustration of the fashion of the earlierpart of the eighteenth century. It is part of the communion platepresented to that parish by Louise, Lady Atkins, a sister of thethen rector, and widow of the great county historian, Sir Robert Atkins. H 2 100 Transactions at Cirencester. rules have exceptions, and tliis holds good in the caseof church chalices. Besides the forms already mentioned, cupsof exception
. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . ign of Queen Anne are alittle more uniform, with narrower and cylindrical bowls. Anexample at Coates is a good illustration of the fashion of the earlierpart of the eighteenth century. It is part of the communion platepresented to that parish by Louise, Lady Atkins, a sister of thethen rector, and widow of the great county historian, Sir Robert Atkins. H 2 100 Transactions at Cirencester. rules have exceptions, and tliis holds good in the caseof church chalices. Besides the forms already mentioned, cupsof exceptional shape are occasionally found, amongst them someof great excellence ; sometimes they ai-e secular drinking cups,that have been devoted by the piety and liberality of theirowneiS to more sacred purposes i We may safely say that themost beautiful of all these is a cup at Cirencester, which is ofalmost priceless value and of unique interest, for it must havebeen made for some member of the Boleyn family, and in allprobability made for the unfortunate Anne Boleyn There is a very line example of a cup of this khul used as a Coui-muniou Cup at St. Mabeu, in Cornwall. It is of elegant form, inheight, the cover ))eing surmounted by a boy, nude, holding a shaped-shield. The mouth of the cup is :U-ins. in diameter. The bowl and cover A^clE^ix Ouukch Plate at (Jikkncestek, 101 Its cover is surmounted by the badge of lier family—thecrowned falcon and sceptre—and an examination of the gold-smiths mark proves the year of its manufacture to have been1535, being the year before her execution. The badge had, many years ago, attracted the notice of theKev, E. A. Fuller, and u2)on his authority the cup has longbeen credited with a royal descent, which goes far, be it said,to account for its coming into the possession of the parish ofCirencester. It will be remembered that the eventual grantee of the lands of theAbbey of Cirencester in 1565 was Di*. Richard Master, physici
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