Sometimes, too, an early gold or silver object would be melted down and modernized into another and a newer piece of plate. This was a fairly common usage with the silversmiths themselves, or with an ignorant or stingy brotherhood or chapter. Thus, the following entry occurs in the _Libro de Visita de Fábrica_ belonging to the parish church of Santa Ana, Triana, Seville. In the year 1599 "the large cross of silver-gilt, together with its _mançana_ and all the silver attaching thereto, was taken to the house of Zubieta the silversmith, and pulled to pieces. It weighed 25 marks and 4 _ochavas_ of silver, besides 5 marks and 2 ounces and 4 _ochavas_ of silver which was the weight of the three lamps delivered to Zubieta in the time of Juan de Mirando, aforetime steward of this church. It is now made into a silver-gilt cross."[46] [46] Gestoso, _Diccionario de Artífices Sevillanos_, vol. ii. p. 360. A similar instance may be quoted from a document of Cordova, published by Ramírez de Arellano in his relation of a visit to the monastery of San Jerónimo de Valparaiso. In the year 1607 Gerónimo de la Cruz, a Cordovese silversmith, agreed with the prior of this monastery to make for the community a silver-gilt _custodia_. For this purpose he received from the prior, doubtless a man of parsimonious spirit and a boor in his appreciativeness of art, eight pairs of vinegar cruets, four of whose tops were missing; a silver-gilt chalice and its patine; a _viril_ with two angels and four pieces on the crown of it; a small communion cup; some silver candlesticks; four spoons and a fork, also of silver; and a silver-gilt salt-cellar. The total value of these objects was 1826 _reales_; and all of them were tossed, in Ford's indignant phrase, into the "sacrilegious melting-pot," in order to provide material for the new _custodia_. [Illustration: XV SILVER-GILT PROCESSIONAL CROSS (_Made by Juan de Arfe in_ 1592. _Burgos Cathedral_)]