Hi Bernard Re: Silver Pyx Just read The Pale Horseman. Great stuff. Liked your dedication to GMF: one of my greats too. However – re the silver pyx or plate which is featured. As a certifiable word nerd I’d been researching the origins of the verb to box and found it possibly connected with the ancient Greek word for fist- pyx – which seems to have come directly down to us as a small fist sized box used to house religious items. So I wondered, where did your use of the word pyx for a plate come from? Best wishes Steve Ainsworth Halifax West Yorks