Going to Salisbury, England?

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Is anybody going to Salisbury, England this year?  Salisbury is south and a good bit west of London. The Salisbury Museum has two sets of trenchers I'd really like to have photographs of.

Actually, if your travel plans are anywhere in England, I may have a museum you should visit.

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how about we start with the Salisbury museum?

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The terms "trencher" or "roundel" seem to be used interchangably.

The Salisbury Museum has a set of 8 (originally 12) trenchers donated by the Rev E. Duke. The trenchers (accession #, SBYWM:1976.129) are dated about 1567. The set is also described as group 4 in Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London, June 1888.

One of the curators kindly informed me there is also a second set of 11 trenchers, “decorated with German prints of scenes of people - occupations and pleasures, with mottoes in English painted round the edges, and edged with gilt. (Museum accession no. SBYWM:1937.68).”

The Catalog of the Salisbury Museum mentions another set of early 17th century roundels which may or may not actually be in the museum. They depict various fruit, but the catalog gives no particular details. The entry reads:
“A set of roundels, assigned to the early part of the seventeenth century, has in the center of each the colored representation of some kind of fruit, surrounded by a stanza in one continuous line. The following may suffice as an example.
A lovely fruite, a lording peare,
That is so goode and lookes so faire;
How little like to this is she
That is thy love; what’s that to mee!
Some of the stanzas would now be considered indelicate, and are curious as shewing the license allowed at the period when they were used.”

I want pictures that are clear enough so I can read the writing on the trenchers. If this is not possible, any picture will do. Please also take a picture of any museum card describing the exhibit, or make notes on the size, date and origin of the object.