MRP: Glass

Glass

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19/03/12, CSG: Created page

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Glass beads, Sir Nicholas Crispe, Hammersmith, 16XX

Glass objects, mid-C17th

Drinking glasses
Glass lanthorne
Looking glass
Old looking glass
Glasses
Old case with glasses
Case for glasses
Large glass
Glass windowes
Good white plaine glasse
Large looking glass
Great looking glass
My largest looking glass
Large Looking Glasse with a Tortoys shell frame
Painted glass
Dial of painted glass
Glass seller
Worshipful company of Glass-sellers of London
All the potts and glasses in the house
Stained glass

Minories glasshouse

See HCA13/71

Possible primary sources

TNA

C 5/92/83 Short title: Roscetti v Sheridan. Plaintiffs: Peter Roscetti. Defendants: Thomas Sheridan and Helen Sheridan and another. Subject: Making glass. Document type: answer, schedule. 1686

C 111/191 PACKET 36: UNKNOWN CAUSES: Release and bonds of Sir Stephen Evance of London to Richard Robinson, of St Andrew, Holborn, Middx, relating to paper and corn mills called Coltnet Mills and shares in the invention (by Thomas Savery of London) of a machine for cutting and polishing glass and stone using a mill-wheel, formerly belonging to Whitfield Hayter of London, goldsmith; with receipts and account enclosed 1698

C 213/171/77: Chancery: Petty Bag Office: Association Oath Rolls: Glass sellers 1698

E 351/678 CUSTOMS, &c.: FARMERS OF DUTIES ON TIMBER, GLASS, EARTHENWARE, ORANGES, LEMONS, &c.: Sir R. Paston. 29 Sept. 1667-25 Mar. 1674
E 134/19Chas2/East8 John Tyzacke, glassmaker. v. Joshua Henzey, glassmaker, Henry Oseland, clerk.: Glasshouses (in defendants' occupation) in Old Swinford and King Swinford. Touching an agreement about making glass, &c., &c.: Worcester; Stafford. 19 Chas 2

PROB 4/1400 Paine, John, of St Saviour, Southwark, Surrey looking-glass maker 1693 30 Oct.
PROB 4/7500 Middleton, Sarah, of St Mary le Bow, London, widow, glass seller 1700 7 May
PROB 4/19463 Soanes, Samuel, of St. Andrew, Holborne, Mdx., glass seller 1673 2 Aug.

Possible secondary sources

Hughes, George Bernard, English, Scottish, and Irish table glass: from the sixteenth century to 1820 (XXXX, 1956)

Tyler, Kieron, Hugh B. Willmott, John Baker's late 17th-century glasshouse at Vauxhall (London, 2006)
- Identifies twenty-one known early-modern glass manufacturing sites in London
- For review of the book, see 'James G. Gibb, Review of 'John Baker's Late-seventeenth century glasshouse at Vauxhall', in Historical Archaeology, 43(2) (2009), pp. 165-166

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