Old Silver Sacramental Vessels of Foreign Protestant Churches in England.
By E. Alfred Jones. (J. M. bent and Co. 21s. net.)— First in the list of these churches comes the Walloon and Huguenot church in the crypt of Canterbury Cathedral. This dates back as far as 1548, though its existence was interrupted by the reign of Queen Mary. It recommenced, after a sojourn of six years at Winchester and of one at St. Alphege's in Canterbury, in 1576, and there it remains to-day : Archbishop Laud attempted to impose conformity, but without success. In 1789, however, a translation of the English Liturgy was intro- duced. In 1895 the congregation changed its place of worship from the large crypt to the chantry of the Black Prince. It possesses six silver cups bearing the date of 1632 and sundry pewter vessels. The large number of the cups was necessitated by the multitude of communicants, which at one time reached a thousand. The French Church, Soho Square, was first founded temp. Edward VI. in Threadneedle Street, was removed to St. Martin's-le-Grand in 1841, and thence to Soho Square in 1893. It has four chalices dated 1717, two plates, and a dish (1788). There are ten other foreign Protestant churches in London and the suburbs. One at Norwich has disappeared and its plate has been sold. Some of this, however, has been traced.
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