Drinks of the world / by James Mew and John Ashton.

  • Mew, James.
Date:
1892
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Drinks of the world / by James Mew and John Ashton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ulph’s horn is considered of somewhat later date, and is of ivory. Ulph’s Horn. Of this horn Dugdale1 says : “ About this time also, Ulphe, the son of Thorald, who ruled in the west of Deira,2 by reason of the difference which was like to rise between his sons, about the sharing of his lands and lordships after his death, resolved to make them all alike ; and thereupon, coming to York, with that horn wherewith he was used to drink, filled it with wine, and before the altar of God, and Saint Peter, Prince of the Apostles, kneeling devoutly, drank the wine, and by that ceremony enfeoffed this church with all his lands and revenues. The figure of which horn, in memory thereof, is cut in stone upon several parts of the choir, but the horn itself, when the Reformation in King Edward the Vlth’s time began, and swept away many costly ornaments belonging to this church, 1 Hist. Account of the Cathedral Church of York, Lond., 1715, p. 7. 2 That division of the ancient kingdom of Northumberland, which was bounded by the river Humber southwards, and to the north by the Tyne.