the lion passant, and the year mark for 1638. It is interesting to note that the Middleton cup, on which the year mark is not decipherable, has the date 1632 on the inscription. This paten is inscribed on the base"Posuit donum ad altare Domini Katharine Pell." Paten.-Small, 4 ins. in diameter. There are traces of four marks, the first and third, in all probability the Britannia mark and the maker's mark, are not decipherable, the second is the lion's head erased, and the fourth, the year mark for 1710. Flagon.-A piece of Commonwealth plate which was, evidently, at one time used for domestic purposes. It weighs 39 ozs. and is 9 ins. high. It has a whistle handle, and bears the arms of Sir Valentine Pell, impaling those of Calthrop of Stanhoe. The marks are DR for Daniel Rutty, the crowned leopard, the lion passant, and the year mark for 1656. FLITCHAM. Chalice. An Elizabethan cup, 5 ins. high and 3 ins. in diameter, having one mark similar to that on the cup at Dersingham, and bearing this inscription "The Townchype Paten.-Small, with no marks. GAYTON. of Flytcham." The Church Plate in this parish consists of a modern. silver chalice and paten of the same date, a silver flagon, and a plated dish. The marks on the chalice and paten are, W B over D B, the mark of William Bateman and Daniel Ball, the lion passant, the uncrowned leopard, the year mark for 1840, and the sovereign's head. The following inscription is found on both these pieces of "By voluntary subscription. plate: Gayton, Norfolk, 1841." The flagon is marked with the mark of J. E. W. and J. Barnard, being their initials in a quatrefoil, the lion passant, the uncrowned leopard, the year mark for 1869, and the sovereign's head. GAYTON THORPE. This is one of the three parishes in this deanery indebted to the members of the Barkham family for gifts of handsome communion plate, East Walton and Westacre being the other two. The chalice weighing 11 oz. 15 dwts., the chalice cover weighing 5 oz. 2 dwts., and the paten weighing 11 oz. 9 dwts., are all in excellent condition and bear the following marks:-the year mark of 1686 and the maker's mark, IS with a cinquefoil below in a shaped shield. The inscription on each piece readsEx dono St Wm Barkham, Baronet. Gayton Thorp, Decbr ye 25 Anno Dom. 1687." GAYWOOD. Chalice. A cup of good design and in an excellent state of preservation, 8 ins. in height and 37 ins. in diameter, and bearing the inscription "DEO IMMORTALY ET ECCLESIÆ DE GAYWOOD." The two letters M are linked in the word "immortaly" (immortali). This cup is of particular interest, as it bears the same marks and is similar in lettering and in general ornamentation to the four beaker cups which formerly belonged to the Dutch Church at Norwich. The marks are, (1) the Norwich mark, being a castle over a lion passant; (2) the maker's mark, the orb and cross in a shaped shield, which Mr. Jackson attributes to Peter Petersen (see English Goldsmiths and their Marks, p. 287); and (3) a wyvern's head, regarded as |