Massé, H. J. L. J. (Henri Jean Louis Joseph), b. 1860 · London, T.F. Unwin · leaf 251
rom the marks on it, it wouldseem to be an eighteenth-century basin, probablyordered to replace a pewter predecessor. Such font-bowls were in use after the wholesale damage to anddestruction of fonts in the seventeenth century, andthey are mentioned in churchwardens accounts aslate as the end of… … t 1 r YORK FLAGON.(From the collection of R. Martin Holland, Esq.) Specimens survive in the West Country and havebeen secured by alert collectors.
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