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Title: Old English glasses. An account of glass drinking vessels in England, from early times to the end of the eighteenth century. With introductory notices, original documents, etc
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Hartshorne, Albert, b. 1839
Subjects: Glass manufacture Glassware -- Great Britain Wine and wine making -- Great Britain
Publisher: London, New York, E. Arnold
Contributing Library: University of Massachusetts, Boston
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Massachusetts, Boston

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a way never yet before discovered,of extracting out of Flinte all Sorts of lookeing glasses plates both Christali andordinary and all manner of Christali glasse, farr exceedeing all former experimentsboth at home and abroad. This proposal to make glass from flint was areversion to the old and expensive fashion which Merret tells us in 1662 hadbeen abandoned. The petitioners prayed for a Patent for fourteen years, withprohibition to all other persons. The King, remembring something of thisnature to be already passed to his Gr the Duke of Buckingham, referred thematter to the Attorney-General. Evidently his report was not favourable, and He died in 1670, and is commemorated engraved in W. H. Hyetts Sepulchral Memorials, in East Carlton Church, Northamptonshire, by a 1817. standing figure in marble, together with that - Appendix, Original Documents, No. XXV. of his wife. Both are represented in shrouds, ^ Ibid., No. XXVII. after a peculiar fashion of the time. They are * Ibid., No. XXVI.
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28—DUTCH GLASS. CHAP. XI. GRANT TO THOMAS TILSON. PROCLAMATION. in view of the terms of Tilsons grant it would appear that the proviso insertedin the privilege to the Duke of Buckingham had been resorted to, and thatthe Patent to the Duke had become void, as not implying a new inventionor an improvement of one already in use. His system was apparently amodification of the use of flint after the Italian fashion ; Leigh and his companywould fall into the same condemnation. As in the case of the prohibition of wood in 1615, it was desirable to assurethe commercial success of the crystal-glass and the looking-glass trade by theinterdiction of foreign imports. Accordingly, 25th July 1664, a Proclamationwas issued ^ setting forth the great usefulnes and commodity of makinglooking-glass plates, etc., a manufacture lately found out, and brought toperfection by some of our natural English subjects, and prohibiting theimportation so largely carried out since the said invention had been exerci

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