Identifier: wiltshirearchaeo2518godd (find matches)
Title: The Wiltshire archaeological and natural history magazine
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Goddard, Edward Hungerford, 1854- Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. Proceedings
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: (Devizes, Eng. : The Society)
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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nue simplytankards, without much variation in shape, the lids low, almost flaton the top—the earlier examples often with the sides slightly bulging,as in the Bishopstone example of 1634, given in the plate; the laterones oftener with the sides perfectly straight, as in that of Garsden,of 1684. This is by no means an invariable rule, however. Onthe front they commonly bear the coat of arms of the donor, or thesacred monogram surrounded by rays. In the eighteenth century the lid became by degrees higher andmore dome-shaped, until it blossomed out into an acorn or otherornament at the top, a spout grew out of the side where no spouthad been before, the whole vessel grew less broad and massive, untilthe ugly tall attenuated flagon of the earlier half of the nineteenthcentury came into existence. Many of these flagons of the latter half of the seventeenth andbeginning of the eighteenth centuries are of enormous size, weighingseventy or eighty ounces or more, and were often given, even to
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By the Rev. E. H. Goddard. 349 comparatively small parishes, in pairs—as for example, at LydiardTregoze and Broad Hinton. Judging from present needs peopleare apt to wonder what possible use such large vessels could haveserved, but we must remember that in those days the number ofcommunicants very far exceeded that of the present day—indeed,that probably every person in the parish who was of age to receivethe communion did so. In reference to this a very curious andinteresting order from the Bishop of Salisbury to the curate andchurchwardens and parishioners of Aldbourne is given in vol. xxiii.,p. 255 of this Magazine, wherein it is ordered to the end that theminister may neither be overtoyled nor the people indecently andinconveniently thronged together that thrice in the year at leastnotice be given of four communions upon four consecutive Sundays,and that there come not to the communion in one day above twohundred at the most. Probably, therefore, the flagons—there isa very l

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