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A round metal object from Boston, Lincs.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

Ralph Griffin
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In the course of the restoration in 1853 of the great church of St. Botolph at Boston in Lincolnshire the floor of the nave was removed and excavation took place with a view to determining the site of a more ancient church thought to have existed before the great nave was built. In the course of these works certain small objects were discovered in the ground, and a list of them is given in the History of Boston by Pishey Thompson, Boston, 1856. One of them, which is preserved in the library over the south-west porch, is a copper disc with Limoges champlevé enamel. It was exhibited before the Society at its ordinary meeting on the 30th January 1930 by the vicar of Boston, the Rev. Canon Hutchinson, at my invitation, as it had attracted my attention when I visited the library in June 1929. It is represented on pl. XIII, and Mr. Thompson, who considered it not of much interest, describes it as the foot of a candlestick of latten with shields of arms and foliage of the fourteenth century. It is possible to differ with him as to the interest of the object, for that appears to be quite considerable. As to its date, it is probably quite early in the fourteenth century, if not at the end of the thirteenth. As to its use, that must in any case be quite doubtful.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , April 1930 , pp. 139 - 142
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Copyright   The Society of Antiquaries of London 1930

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page 139 note 1 Now in the library of the College of Arms by Mr. Green's bequest.

page 140 note 1 Mr. Greenstreet edited a somewhat corrupt copy of this roll in the third and following volumes of the Genealogist, N.S., under the name of the Planché roll, which led Mr. G. W. Watson to contribute to the sixth and following volumes some valuable notes on the foreign coats to be found in it.

page 140 note 2 It appears on one of the tiles from the abbey of Caen presented to the Society by John Henniker Major, F.S.A., in 1788, now in a frame in the hall of the Society's apartments.

page 140 note 3 The chains of Navarre may also be allusive, as una varra is said to be Basque patois for a chain.

page 141 note 1 Armorial of France by Berry, edited by Vallet de Viriville. Paris, 1866.

page 141 note 2 Essai sur les Sceaux des comtes etc., de Champagne par H. D'Arbois de Jubainville. Paris, 1856.Google Scholar

page 142 note 1 Regal Heraldry, by Willement, Thomas, p. 14,Google Scholar pl. v, fig. 2. London, 1821.

page 142 note 2 Shaw, Henry, The Decorative Arts of the Middle Ages, Pickering, 1851.Google Scholar

page 142 note 3 Rupin, Ernest, L'œuvre de Limoges, Paris, 1890.Google Scholar

page 142 note 4 Proceedings, xv, 266.