American
caudle
cups in
churches.

1x696-97. One of the most interesting examples of a vessel decorated in this
fashion is the ewer in St Andrew's church, Fife, Scotland, to which it was given
by archbishop Sharp, a prominent Scottish ecclesiastic who was assassinated on
Magus Muirin i 679. Some attempt has been made to introduce a similar embellish-
ment of a different pattern on the " Shurtleff " tankard of the South parish, Ports-
mouth, New Hampshire, illustrated on Plate CXVII. Cut foliage of this kind may
also be seen on American Colonial furniture of the last quarter of the seventeenth
century, especially in Connedicut.
Sixty-five American caudle cups are illustrated here, fifty-seven of these being
plain. This variety of English drinking cup seems to have been copied by the
Boston silversmiths as early as 1 676, which is the date engraved on the plain
gourd-shaped cup, given by Margaret Bridges of Finglas in Ireland to the First
Parish at Concord in Massachusetts, the nature of whose connexion with this
church cannot at present be determined. This was when the maker, John Coney,
was apparently twenty-one years old. He made five others for the same church.
One of these is exaaly like the first and was given in 16 8 2 by Thomas Browne,
a member of the church, while the four others are slightly larger, with notched
handles, and were bought by the church in i7 14 for the increasing congregation.
Illustrations of all these cups will be found on Plate LII.
John Coney also made four more plain caudle cups for another Massachusetts
church-the First church, Malden. These have handles like those on Margaret
Bridges's cup at Concord. These have served as models for two others in this
church, made in 17 2 8 by John Burt of Boston. The six cups are illustrated on
Plate LXXXVII. Edward Winslow of Boston, the maker of so much admirable
church and domestic plate, wrought one of these cups in I 707 for the First Con-
gregational church at Milford, Connedicut, which is illustrated on Plate XC. He
also wrought for the same church another variety of caudle cup, illustrated on the
same Plate-probably the only one of its kind in a church-the form of which has
been derived from some such English mug as that of St Michael's parish, Maryland,
shown in the group on Plate CXXIV.
Three of these plain caudle cups belong to the First Congregational Society of
the historic town of Quincy. One is dated I 694 and was given by four prominent
members of this church. The second belonged originally to Peter Tufts and his
second wife, Mary Cotton, and was probably made for them shortly after their
marriage in 16 84, the maker, Jeremiah Dummer of Boston, having died in i7 1 8.
It was presented to this church in 1 8 7 2 by Quincy Tufts, their great-great-grand-
son. The third was bequeathed in 1697 by Edmund Quincy, a conspicuous
figure in this church and town; it bears the worthy donor's arms and was made
by Thomas Savage of Boston. Each of these cups is illustrated on Plate CXXI.
A plain gourd-shaped caudle cup, illustrated on Plate LII, in the First Congre-
gational church at Deerfield, Massachusetts, was given to that church by Hannah
Beamon, before her death in 1739 and was made by William Pollard of Boston.
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