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Lot Essay
John Frankes was a graduate of Cambridge University and was vicar of Queniborough, Leics from 1680. There is a reference to the flagons in the Parish accounts of 1685. 'Itm. paid to Richard Linwhite for exchanging the communion flagons. 9 shillings'. The Bennets, father and son were a local prominent family. Billings was not only a pewter maker but also the Mayor of Coventry 1704-5.
The History of the flagons is somewhat unusual because they found their way to St.Peter's Manchester, built 1788, demolished 1907 and thence to a local family and by descent until being sold to Mr.Holt in 1970. Of interest is that Queniborough church purchased a silver paten, 1774, a cup, 1785 and a flagon, 1791 presumably to replace the pewter, at a date roughly matching the time that St.Peters Manchester was built.
The History of the flagons is somewhat unusual because they found their way to St.Peter's Manchester, built 1788, demolished 1907 and thence to a local family and by descent until being sold to Mr.Holt in 1970. Of interest is that Queniborough church purchased a silver paten, 1774, a cup, 1785 and a flagon, 1791 presumably to replace the pewter, at a date roughly matching the time that St.Peters Manchester was built.