In 1564 De Lannoy came from the Low Countries, under the auspices of the Government, not to teach the rudiments of glass-making to the English, for we have seen that the art had been well understood here from time immemorial, but to give certain information as to the practice of the science in his own country. De Lannoy also made no stay here; he was a dreamner, an alchemist, and seems to have found us at least rather credulous. Cecil says of him in his Diary, 10th Feb. 1567, that he "abused many in promising to convert any metal into gold."

The following receipt for mending glasses appears in The thyrde and last parte of the Secretes of the reuerende Maister Alexis of Piemont, etc. "Englished by Wilham Warde 1566, the fourth Booke, Folio 64:"

"For to soder Glasses.-Take Minium, and halfe as much of quicke Lyme & the Meale or flower that hangeth on the mille sides or walles, and the yeke an of Egge, in all this let a Lynnen clothe be weate and holden before the fyre that it may be clammye, meete for to cleaue or stycke fast and so lay it faire and softly upon the broken place of the glasse."

In 1567, Jean Quarre, and other Flemish workmen, established works at Crutched Friars, and Quarre's descendants built works in Surrey, near Chiddingfold. (See p. 46).

Thos. Randolph, dramatic poet (Muse's Looking Glass), b. 1605, d. 1634.

Glass Cutting by Crystal discovered by Lehmann 1609.

The history and personnel of the Buckholt furnace are more clearly established than those of any of the other old glass-house in England; and it is particularly noticeable, from the remains found, that more glass was made here for vessels than for windows. The De Hennezels came avowedly to make window-glass and nothing else; at Buckholt they turned their attention to vessels also. Was this because they found their window glass was not much wanted in England, inasmuch as the natives made it themselves, and-as for King's Chapel less than half a century before-better than the aliens could do so?

In 1618 "a glasse celler" was bought for xvjs. iiijd. Glasses, and a drinking-glass were obtained in the same year for Lady William Howard, and thirteen glass plates for ijs. These were probably for fruit, March paines, suckets, or sweetmeats, and would certainly serve the purpose better than the painted and gilded wooden roundels or trenchers of late Tudor timessupposing that such delicate tablets were ever put to such a use, which is very doubtful. In the same year "Mrs. Mary," the impulsive youngest daughter of the house, born in 1604, bought glasses "at the gate"-the picturesque gate of Thomas, Lord Dacre. These would have been brought by hawkers, "qui portant vitra ad dorsum;" they must have been very bad, like most things "bought at the gate," and were probably made at one of the inferior glass-houses which the Proclamation of 1615 and the general action of Mansel had the effect of closing, if he did not choose to license them.