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Show RELIC COVETED BY MORGAN. Little English Parish Troubled by Proposed Pro-posed Sale- of Precious Chalice. New York. J. Plcrpont Morgnn has sot tho good peoplo of tho llttlo parish of Churchill, near Worcester, Eng., by tho cars, through coveting, tholr 300-year-old chalice, for which ho has made a handsome offer. Tho vlcnr and churchwardens wnnt to refloor their church, and if they can get tho money 300-Year-Old Chalice of Churchill Parish. Mr. Morgan offers for tho chalice, tho work can bo dono without any call on tho parlshlonors. Tho proposal has been submitted for tho sanction of tho .chancellor of tho diocese, whoso decision Is awaited. Tho challco Is not ot distinguished design. On tho contrary It la of precisely pre-cisely tho same date nnd pattern ns nro the chalices of sovcral neighboring churches and many others about tho country. It la 5 Inches high, nnd la mndo of hammered silver. It has a conventional floral design round tho bowl, but Its cover, which wns originally original-ly mndo so ns to bo used as a paten, has disappeared. Its hall-mark of 1571 colhcldcs with tho year In which Plus V. Issued his finnl Bull excommunicating excommuni-cating Queen Elizabeth, and It may bo, as thero nro mnny chalices elsewhere else-where of uniform design, thnt Quocn Elizabeth, to show her disdain of that Bull ordered generally that theso sacred vessels Bhould bo of this proscribed pro-scribed pattern. However, this point never has been settled, nnd locnlly thoro aro somo who think that It was Bishop Sandys of Worcester and afterward after-ward of London, nn arbitrary Calvlnlst, who loved to reduco theso things to dull uniformity, who had older chalices broken and worked up to this slraplu design. |