6 FEBRUARY 1909, Page 28

The Old Royal Plate in the Tower of London. By

E. Alfred Jones. (Fox, Jones, and Co., Oxford. 31e. 6d.)—The pieces number in all, including sets (maces, State trumpets, and spoons), between fifty and sixty. The curiosity among them is the Coronation anointing-spoon, which dates from the late twelfth or early thirteenth century. (Other articles are in the treasury, but have been described in an earlier work.) Mr. Jones adds an account of the Communion plate of St. Peter ad Vincula. This is all post-Reformation.