This cup is of silver gilt, studded with crystals, anp?;is ohe|f|pt seven and
a half inches high, its greatest diameter being seven ^ixiöhésXand five-eighths’.'
TÈe figure on the cover holds; a- .shield bearing me arms of Sir Martin Bowes:
Ermine, three longbows erect in fe s s ||p $ | on- a chief azure a' swan between
two leopards’ faces, or. His crest was a demi-lion rampant gardant or-tim ^
ing a sheaf of arrows proper, .banded gules.
Qli|- initial ' létter is 'taken from a fine wood cut used by dolpL'Daye the
printer, first in the original edition of Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, which he
printed in' 1563, and afterwards in an edition* of John Hee^g“ General and
Rare Memorials, pertayning' to the perfect Arte ofr Navigation,” in T577. -{Tt
represents ^een*'Elizabeth, sitting in state, and attended probably by „three
menders, of -.Her privy council. They were, without doubt,'intended-to be
portraits, but it is not now easy to identify: them.
»y&Kfik table,'represented by-the'cut below,^of the sixteenth' century, and is
-preserved at Musillac, near Yannes in'Brittany.