Among other maces, more correctly described as staves, in use at the
present time, are those carried before ecclesiastical dignitaries and
clergy in cathedrals and parish churches and the maces of the
universities. At Oxford there are three of the second half of the 16th
century and six of 1723-1724, while at Cambridge there are three of 1626
and one of 1628, but altered at the Commonwealth and again at the
Restoration. The silver mace with crystal globe of the lord high
treasurer of Scotland, at Holyrood Palace, was made about 1690 by
Francis Garthorne. The remarkable mace or sceptre of the lord mayor of
London is of crystal and gold and set with pearls; the head dates from
the 15th century, while the mounts of the shaft are early medieval. A
mace of an unusual form is that of the Tower ward of London, which has a
head resembling the White Tower in the Tower of London, and which was
made in the reign of Charles II. The beautiful mace of the Cork gilds,
made by Robert Goble of Cork in 1696 for the associated gilds, of which
he had been master, is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, where there is
also a large silver mace of the middle of the 18th century, with the
arms of Pope Benedict XIV., which is said to have been used at the
coronation of Napoleon as king of Italy at Milan in 1805.
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Office_, &c. (2 vols., 1895); J. R. Garstin, _Irish State and Civic
Maces_, &c. (1898); J. Paton, _Scottish History and Life_ (1902); J.
H. Buck, _Old Plate_ (1903), pp. 124-140; Cripps, _Old English Plate_
(9th ed., 1906), pp. 394-404; E. Alfred Jones, _Old Plate at the Tower
of London_ (1908); ed., "Some Historic Silver Maces," _Burlington
Magazine_ (Dec. 1908). (E. A. J.)