Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ... depth of bowl. The hall year mark indicates the year 1653; the maker's is a bird within a plain shield. An illustration of this cup is given. The handles are designed in the form of scroll brackets, much in vogue during the 17th century, and are handsomer than those found on the copy of this cup made for the neighbouring parish of Turnworth more than a hundred years later. On the WlNTErBOrNE WHITCHUrCH. 1653. rim is inscribed, in old characters, the letters I S; these are probably of the same date as the cup, but there is also engraved in letters of a later character, "J. Squ1bb 1692." The respectable family of Squibb has been settled in this neighbourhood from an early period. Joannes Squibb was living 17th Edward IV. In a taxation roll for this parish, 36 Henry VIII., the name of John Squibb appears. In the registers between 1600 and 1700 they are very numerous; the Christian name of John seems to have been continuously given to the eldest son. It is possible that this cup might have been a piece of family plate given by James Squibb, sen., who died in 1692; or it might have been given to the church as a chalice by John Squibb, who was living at Whitchurch at the time the cup was made in 1653. Ecclesiastical matters seem to have been in a disorganised state here during the Commonwealth, for the following entry is quoted by Hutchins from the parish register: --" James Squibb and Jone Andrews was married the twentieth of October, 1656, by mee, Mist. John Squibb, esquier, and noe acception or deniall made against it." It does not appear from the list of In the time of the Commonwealth marriages were performed by the justices of the peace, and these marriages were declared valid without any fresh solemnization by stat. 12 Car. ii. c. 33....
