In The Middle Ages A Kind Of Bronze Used For Church And Household Utensils Was Known As "Latten"; And The Same Name Was Applied In Shakespeare's Time To Thin Iron Plate Coated With Tin, Of Which Domestic Utensils And Implements Were Made.

In Johnson's "Bartholomew Fair" one of his characters says, "And all this for the hope of a couple of

Apostle spoons, and a cup to eat caudle in." In a work of Middleton, entitled "The Chaste Maid of Cheapside", one of the characters inquires, "What has he given her?" to which another replies, "A faire high standing cup, and two great 'postle spoons, one of them gilt."

The hat, or flat covering on the head of the figure, - that which we call a turban in one of these at Annapolis, - was a customary appendage and usual in apostle spoons; the intention being thereby to protect the features of the tiny heads from wear. Whatever the history of these at Annapolis, there can be no doubt of their genuineness, and, in a perfect state, they are extremely rare.

In our antiquarian researches we are naturally drawn to the old cemetery, adjoining the fort grounds; but learn that the oldest graves were marked by oaken slabs, which have all disappeared, as have also many odd stone ones. But among those still standing one records that some one "dyed 1729"; another states that the body below "is deposited here until the last trump"; and one, which must be the veritable original of the "affliction sore" rhyme, ends:

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