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Chalice. Made on good pre-Reformation model; bearing the leopard's head, lion passant, head of Queen Victoria, i for 1864, and TC, maker.

Chalice.-Bearing the leopard's head, lion passant, Maker's initials W K, obtained from

d for 1899.

I. Keith & Co.

Paten. To match. Same marks, but e for 1900. "To the glory of God, and for the use of the Church of S. Mary, North Tuddenham, as a Jubilee Thankoffering from Robert Barry, M.A., Rector. Xmas, 1900."

Flagon.-Small; ewer shaped; marked with the leopard's head, lion passant, head of Queen Victoria, E for 1880, and IF, maker.

There are monuments to the Skipp family in the church.

WESTFIELD, S. ANDREW.

Chalice and Paten.-Inscribed on the foot-"Westfield." Marked with the leopard's head, lion passant, head of Queen Victoria, h for 1863. Maker, WS (probably William Smiley).

Paten. Electro plate. "Jones & Willis."

Cruet.-Glass, with silver top. The marks are very small and not quite clear, but seem to be the lion passant, leopard's head, queen's head, A for 1876. Maker, CS.

The rectory was burnt down about 1862, and the old Whinburgh and Westfield plate may have perished at the same time.

WHINBURGH, S. MARY.

Chalice.-Bearing the leopard's head, lion passant, head of Queen Victoria, g for 1862. Maker, WS (probably for William Smiley).

Paten. Same marks, except that the date is h for 1863. Flagon.-Glass, with plated top.

On each piece-" Whinburgh."

WOOD RISING, S. NICHOLAS.

Chalice.-Elizabethan communion cup; marked with the Norwich Castle and lion, C for 1567-8, and the trefoil slipped. There is also the assay scratch.

Paten Cover-Same date and marks, with an insertion. into the aperture where the pre-Reformation device was torn off.

Two Alms Dishes.-Pewter.

"FOR THE TOWNE OF WOODRISIN, 1662." Flagon.-Pewter.

YAXHAM, S. PETER.

Chalice.-Bearing the Norwich Castle and lion, rose with stem, the crown, and M E in monogram, as on the chalice at Southwold dated 1661, and an undated paten at Mulbarton. It is dotted, "Yaxham in Norfolke."

Paten.-"The gift of Mrs. Ann Repps to the Church of Yaxham, 1717." The marks are the lion's head erased, Britannia, court-hand Q for 1711, EA, the mark of John Eastt, and the Repps arms.

Paten. The marks are the leopard's head crowned, lion passant, head of King George, c for 1818. Makers, IL i.e., John and Henry Lias. HL

Flagon." Ex dono Clement Repps, gen." Bearing the Repps arms, viz., ermine; three chevronels, sable; and these marks-Britannia, lion's head erased, D for 1719, and EA, as on the paten. This is a very welldesigned flagon.

Alms Dish.-Handsome brass repoussée. The design is the two spies carrying the bunch of grapes.

A few Notes on

the Lovells of East Harling.

COMMUNICATED BY

GEORGE LOVELL HARRISON.

The exact position of Sir Thomas Lovell, K.G., in the family pedigree is extremely difficult to determine. Although it is said he was the fifth son of Ralph Lovell of Beachamwell, Sir Robert Lovell is the only brother of whom we find any authentic record. Moreover, in all the Inquisitions taken after his death, the daughters of this brother, Sir Robert, and their descendants are invariably mentioned as the "next heirs of the said Thomas Lovell, Knight, deceased." Sir Francis Lovell, who succeeded him at East Harling [said, in the extant pedigrees, to be the son of Sir Gregory Lovell] is always alluded to in the Inquisitiones Post Mortem, and in Sir Thomas's will, as "my cosyn Frauncis Lovell." I am inclined to think that, had he been Sir Thomas Lovell's "nephew," he would, at the commencement of the sixteenth century, have been so described. Sir Gregory Lovell, again, was most undoubtedly not the

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