Old English plate, ecclesiastical, decorative, and domestic : its makers and marks / by Wilfred Joseph Cripps.

  • Cripps, Wilfred Joseph, 1841-1903.
Date:
1899
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Credit: Old English plate, ecclesiastical, decorative, and domestic : its makers and marks / by Wilfred Joseph Cripps. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tliat its own pages owe, from time to time, mucii of tlieir fresh information. This is especially the case as regards the late Mr. J. E. E'ightingale’s yolnme on Wilts church-plate, and the great work mentioned above on Scottish Commimion Plate, to the authors of which the present writer is in- debted for many names and dates added to former entries in C1ia])ter VI. It is plain that if the successive editions of Old English Plate aimed only at being a summary of the literature on its subject, brought up as far as possible to date, they would need all the careful emendation they have re- ceived ; and the author can hardly acknowledge too freely and fully the help in this behalf of the' friends, but especially the Eev. C. E. Manning and Mr. Fallow, whose names have been already mentioned in these prefatory words, and also Mr. Edwin H. Ereshfield, as well as the kindness of many correspondents, amongst them Mr. T. Wainwright, of Barn- staple, the Eev. AY. II. Wayne, the Eev. E. H. Bates, Mr. EobeiT Harvey, of Thorpe, ISiorwich, Mr. J. E. Boyle, of Hull, and Mr. Cecil C. Woods, of Cork, who have favoured him with notes of mucli interest. To Mr. Thomas Taylor of Cliipchase Castle the author is indebted for nearly all the newer information given about