EDINBURGH.
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The preceding Table of Assay Office Letters and the following List of Plate are taken from a communication by the late Mr. J. H. Sanderson to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, published in Vol. IV of their "Transactions" in 1862, page 544, and plate xx, Vol. IV, and we have to acknowledge with thanks the kind permission accorded to us by the Council to reprint any portions of the paper bearing upon the subject. Our indebtedness to the late Mr. was duly acknowledged J. H. Sanderson for his valuable assistance in the preface to our first edition of 1863, which we have reprinted in this edition.
FROM WHICH THE ANNUAL LETTERS HAVE BEEN TAKEN, MANY OF THEM BEARING
LIST OF PLATE
DATES.
CYCLE
L
Most of the letters in this cycle are taken from the Minutes of the Goldsmiths' Corporation, in many cases from an impression of the actual punch given on the paper. Those from plate are :
A Jug, the property of the late Lord Murray. There seems to have been another form of B. used this year, as on the Duddingston Communion Cups, dated
B.
1682-3.
E.
1685-6. Auchtermuchtie Communion Cups, "gifted Ross," bearing date 1686.
N.
1693-4. Trinity
1682.
George side,
College
Stirling," the
Communion Cups, "the
gift
of
arms of Edinburgh engraved
in-
and bearing date
A
1693. at Messrs. C. R.
&
Son.
R.
1697-8.
S.
1698-9. Trinity College Communion Cups, a gift, Edinburgh inside, and dated 1698.
W.
1701-2.
by Janet
Cup
New North
arms of
Kirk Communion Cups, "the gift of
Mr. William Archibald," 1702. Y.
New North Kirk Communion Cups, "the gift of John Cunningham of Bandales," 1704.
1703-4.
CYCLE C.
D. H. P.
II.
Lady Yester's Communion Cups, "presented by Thomas Wilkie," 1708. Another C. New North Kirk Baptism La^er, "gifted by Mary Ereskin," 1708. 1708-9. Eddleston Communion Cups, bearing date 1709.
1707-8.
17 1 2-3. 17 19-0.
A
pair of Candlesticks, at Messrs. C. R.
&
Son.
Punch Bowl, Royal Company of Archers, bearing
date 1720.