The Church Plate of the Diocese of Bangor. By E.
Alfred Jones. (Bemrose and Sons. 21s. net.)—The remoteness of this North Wales diocese did not save it from the hands of the spoilers. There is but one example of pre-Reformation church plate in the diocese of Bangor, a silver chalice, dated circa 1600, which is preserved at Llaedudwen. (The Mazer Bowl, which exists at Clynnog, and is still earlier in date, though used for ecclesiastical purposes, is a secular vessel.) Of Elizabethan plate there are twenty-eight specimens, a number which compares unfavourably with the seventy-five of Llandaff, and the fifty-nine which are to be found in the county of Pembroke only. These belong, as do most Elizabethan examples, to the decade 1571-80. Mr. Alfred Jones has put together much interesting material, adding to its value and attractiveness by a number of illustrations. The Llandudwen chalice serves as a frontispiece. It is of an ornate design, of silver, parcel gilt.
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