The Wiltshire archaeological and natural history magazine . (i) MACE, WOOTTON BASSETT, 1603. (2) MACK, MALMESBURY, «V. 1645- (3) MACE, MARLBOROUGH, 1652. (4) MACE, MALMESBURY, 1703. (s) ROYAL ARMS ON HEAD OF NO. 4. SCALE, % By the Rev. E. H. Goddard. 31 which the flanges of the handle are no longer plain, but have de-veloped into six projecting ornamental griffins. The head is stillsemi-globular, but is ornamented with four cherub heads in relief.(The open arches are, perhaps, later additions.) The older pair at Malmesbury, dating probably from 1645, areof the same general type, but t
The Wiltshire archaeological and natural history magazine . (i) MACE, WOOTTON BASSETT, 1603. (2) MACK, MALMESBURY, «V. 1645- (3) MACE, MARLBOROUGH, 1652. (4) MACE, MALMESBURY, 1703. (s) ROYAL ARMS ON HEAD OF NO. 4. SCALE, % By the Rev. E. H. Goddard. 31 which the flanges of the handle are no longer plain, but have de-veloped into six projecting ornamental griffins. The head is stillsemi-globular, but is ornamented with four cherub heads in relief.(The open arches are, perhaps, later additions.) The older pair at Malmesbury, dating probably from 1645, areof the same general type, but the flanges have disappeared alto-gether, leaving a swelling seal-shaped foot, and the bowl of thehead is divided into the four compartments containing the royalbadges, which appear in more elaborate form on almost all macesfrom this time onwards. The cross, too, now alternates with thefleur-de-lys in the cresting of the head. In the Commonwealth period a great step forward was taken inthe much larger and more ornate type of mace which then cameinto fashion. Of these many examples exist, all closely resemblingeach other; few of them, however, are handsomer or in betterpreservation than the pair dating from 1652, of which Marl
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