The inventory also contains, among other items, heavy silver bowls and other vessels belonging to the "house plate," and the "church plate," which we here give in the original spelling:--"A pixe of the ymage of God, gilte, weing 33 oz. _It'm._ a highe standing pixe w'th a cover gilte, weing 23 oz. dim. _It'm._ a crosse w'th Mary and John and a fote to the same gilte, weing 114 oz. _It'm._ a ship [incense-boat] and a spone gilte, weing 12 oz. dim. _It'm._ two bassings parcell gilte, weing 92 oz. _It'm._ a halliwater [holy water] bokett, and a sprinkell, whitt syluer, weing 33 oz., 2 greatt sensors, and a litle sensor, whit syluer, weing 170 oz. _It'm._ two crowetts [cruets] of whit syluer, weing 8 oz. _It'm._ a little paxe gilte, weing 3 oz.; 4 chalesses, gilte, w'th patentts, weing 95 oz. _It'm._ 3 chalesses w'th patentt, whit syluer, weing 50 oz. _It'm._ a litle cros, parcell gilte, weing 51 oz. _It'm._ a crismatory gilte, not weighted. _It'm._ 2 gospells, plated w'th syluer of thonesyde [the one side], not weighted. _It'm._ two maces for the preuelege, plated w'th syluer vppon yeron [iron], not weighted. _It'm._ two virge roddes, plated w'th syluer vppon yeron, not weighted; 4 rectors staves, the haadds of syluer wherof two gilte, not weighted. _It'm._ two stavis for the crosse, plated with syluer, not weighted." When, in 1546, St. Frideswide's became the cathedral church of the four year old diocese of Oxford, the momentous change in its character left no mark upon its architecture. The great alterations in the fabric and fittings had either happened already or were yet to come. During the deanery of Brian Duppa in 1630, the unhappy church suffered a sweeping restoration, which well-nigh destroyed its ecclesiastical character altogether. As Dean Duppa was a cultured man himself, and wrote a life of Michael Angelo, his work was all the more disastrous,--a mere Philistine would have probably been content to let well alone. To begin with, he, "_being minded to adorn it_," says Wood, "did first take down all the old stalls in the choir, and in their places put up those that now are," those great ugly pews, that is, which Dean Liddell removed. Then, in laying down his new pavement, he removed many of the old monuments, "having most of them," continues the old antiquary, "Saxon inscriptions on them; which being looked upon by the dean and canons as old superfluous stuff, and unhandsome to be mixed with their new pavement, they did cause them to be thrown out of the church, as also those out of the cloister." The remaining monuments he moved to the aisles, having, with two exceptions, "duly deprived them of their brasses." Thus was a priceless record of the priory's history lost to us. Most of his work has during this century been undone; but one memorial of him remains, a valuable historical landmark, and full of the characteristics of its age--the Jonah window at the west of the north aisle of the nave.