interesting order to a goldsmith: "Edward, son of Eudo, with all
haste, by day and by night, make a cup with a foot for the Queen:
weighing two marks, not more; price twenty marks, against Christmas,
that she may drink from it in that feast: and paint it and enamel it
all over, and in every other way that you can, let it be decently
and beautifully wrought, so that the King, no less than the said
Queen, may be content therewith." All the young princes and princesses
were presented with silver cups, also, as they came to such age as
made the use of them expedient; Lionel and John, sons of Edward
III., were presented with cups "with leather covers for the same,"
when they were one and three years old respectively. In 1423 the
chief justice, Sir William Hankford, gave his great-granddaughter
a baptismal gift of a gilt cup and a diamond ring, together with a
curious testimonial of eight shillings and sixpence to the nurse!

Of dishes, the records are meagre, but there is an amusing entry
among the Lisle papers referring to a couple of "conserve dishes"
for which Lady Lisle expressed a wish. Husee had been ordered to
procure these, but writes, "I can get no conserve dishes... however,
if they be to be had, I will have of them, or it shall cost me hot
water!" A little later he observes, "Towards Christmas day they
shall be made at Bevoys, betwixt Abbeville and Paris."

Flagons were evidently a novelty in 1471, for there is an entry
in the Issue Roll of Edward IV., which mentions "two ollas called
silver flagons for the King." An olla was a Latin term for a jar.
Lord Lisle rejoiced in "a pair of flagons, the gilt sore worn."
Hanaps were more usual, and appear to have been usually in the form
of goblets. They frequently had stands called "tripers." Sometimes
these stands were very ornate, as, for instance, one owned by the