Historic Elizabethen silver dishes to sell in Crewkerne

According to legend, during the English Civil War, a Royalist descendant of Sir Christopher Harris (c.1553-1625) of Radford, Devon, hid the family silver in a cave before fleeing, fearing for his life.

The silver was lost for almost two centuries but was discovered by farm labourers in 1827 and return…

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