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Royalists's silver cup
This Royalists's silver cup descended in the Temple family of King William County. It was made during the reign of
Charles II, c.1680-85, and commemorates the king's having successfully hidden in an oak tree from Cromwell's men during
the English Civil war. Note the crown high up in the tree. The Latin inscription translates, "Honored is the tree whose shade shelters us."
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