44 / 374
44
DRINKS.
was
sold
to
a
goldsmith,
who
took
away
from
it
those
tippings
of
gold
wherewith
it
was
adorned,
and
the
gold
chain
affixed
thereto
;
since
which,
the
horn
it-
self,
being
cut
in
ivory
in
an
eight
square
form,
came
to
the
hands
of
Thomas,
late
Lord
Fairfax."
He,
dying
in
1671,
it
came
into
the
possession
of
his
next
relation,
Henry,
Lord
Fairfax,
who
restored
its
ornaments
in
silver-gilt,
and
restored
it
to
the
cathe-
dral
authorities.
It
bears
the
following
inscription
:
"
CORNV
HOC,
VlPHVS
IN
OCCIDENTALI
PARTE
Deir^
prtnceps,
vna
cum
omnibvs
terris
et
redditibvs
suis
glim
donavit.
Amissvm
vel
abreptvm.
Henricvs
DOM.
Fairfax
demvm
restitvit.
Dec.
et
capit.
de
novo
ornavit.
A.D.
MDC.
LXXV."
Most
of
us
know
Longfellow's
poem
of
King
Wit-
lafs
drinking
horn,
a
story
which
may
be
found""
in
Ingulphus,
who
says
that
Witlaf,
King
of
Mercia,
who
lived
in
the
reign
of
Egbert,
gave
to
the
Abbey
of
Croyland
the
horn
used
at
his
own
table,
for
the
elder
monks
of
the
house
to
drink
out
of
it
on
festivals
and
saints'
days,
and
that
when
they
gave
thanks,
they
might
remember
the
soul
of
Witlaf
the
donor.
That
they
had
some
horn
of
the
kind
is
probable,
for
the
same
chronicler
says
that
when
the
monastery
was
almost
destroyed
by
fire,
this
horn
was
saved.
Besides
the
liquors
above
mentioned,
the
Anglo-
Saxons
had
others,
as
we
see
in
a
passage
of
Henry
of
Huntingdon
(lib.
vi.),
which
is
probably
an
inven-