of wax with wicks in them, to be placed as lights before the shrine
of Thomas à Becket in Canterbury. The great gold shrine of Becket
appears to have been chiefly the work of a goldsmith, Master Adam.
He also designed the Coronation Chair of England, which is now
in Westminster Abbey.

The chief goldsmith of England employed by Edward I. was one Adam
of Shoreditch. He was versatile, for he was also a binder of books.
A certain bill shows an item of his workmanship, "a group in silver
of a child riding upon a horse, the child being a likeness of Lord
Edward, the King's son."

A veritable Arts and Crafts establishment had been in existence
in Woolstrope, Lincolnshire, before Cromwell's time; for Georde
Gifford wrote to Cromwell regarding the suppression of this monastery:
"There is not one religious person there but what doth use either
embrothering, wryting books with a faire hand, making garments,
or carving."

In all countries the chalices and patens were usually, designed
to correspond with each other. The six lobed dish was a very usual
form; it had a depressed centre, with six indented scallops, and
the edge flat like a dinner plate. In an old church inventory,
mention is made of "a chalice with _his_ paten." Sometimes there was
lettering around the flat edge of the paten. Chalices were-composed
of three parts: the cup, the ball or knop, and the stem, with the
foot. The original purpose of having this foot hexagonal in shape
is said to have been to prevent the chalice from rolling when it
was laid on its side to drain. Under many modifications this general
plan of the cup has obtained. The bowl is usually entirely plain,