Oct. 2. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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two instances in Hogarth of men with muffs ; but, 

 as I have not his works at hand, I cannot be posi- 

 tive, and I rather think that they were pecu- 

 liarities. Does not Horace Walpole talk some- 

 where of his muff? and are there not prints of 

 even the time of George III., in which men are 

 exhibited in muffs ? They were common in France 

 up to the Revolution; and I remember, in the 

 winter of 1789, some of the emigrants wearing 

 muffs in this country. C 



Pepys records, in his Diary, 30th November, 

 1662, that 



" This day I first did wear a mufFe, being my wife's 

 last year's mutFe; and now I have bought her a new 

 one, this serves me very well," 



Apropos of Pepys, will you suggest to your 

 correspondents that it would be of general conve- 

 nience to readers, if they would endeavour to 

 make their references as easy of vei-ification as 

 possible ? When a work has passed through seve- 

 ral editions, a mere reference to volume and page 

 is only tantalising to those who possess a different 

 edition. The mention of chapter and section may 

 save much loss of time ; while it often happens 

 that there is even a more ready indicator. For 

 example : in Vol. vi., p. 213. of " N. & Q.," Bon- 

 SALL has given some Notes by Coleridge on Pepys's 

 Diary (wrongly called by Bonsall Memoirs) 

 which I should have been glad to compare with 

 the passages referred to ; but, from mine being 

 tlie 8vo. edition, I am imable to find them. Had 

 Bonsall given, instead of volume and page, the 

 day and year, the proper places could have been 

 at once found in any edition. J. Th. 



Kennington. 



This fashion was doubtless imported from 

 France or Holland by the Merry Monarch. In 

 a ballad describing the fair upon the I'iver Thames, 

 during the great frost of 1683-4, mention is 

 made of 



" A spark of the bar, with his cane and his mvff" 



They were usually slung round the neck by a 

 silk riband, as may be seen in the print of a beau 

 in Tempesta's Cries of London. 



There is a curious portrait of Admiral Byng 

 (who was somewhat of a macaroni), in which he is 

 drawn with his arms folded in a muff! Poor Byng, 

 it v/ill be remembered, was murdered in 1757. 



Edwahi) F. Rimbault. 



When I was at the College School, Gloucester, 

 in 1793-4, 1 frequently saw Dr. Josiah Tucker, the 

 then Dean, walk up the nave to attend service, 

 with his hands in a small muff in cold weather. 

 He was then very old and infirm. P. H. F. 



Muffi were worn by gentlemen in 1683. See 

 JFairholt's Costume in England, p. 351., in which 



is reproduced an engraving of about that date of 

 a figure wearing one, and reference is made to a 

 ballad of that year mentioning — 



" A spark of the bar, with his cane and his muff." 



Horace Walpole, writing to George Montague 

 in 1764, says : 



" I send you a decent smallish muff, that you may 

 put in your pocket, and it costs but fourteen shillings." 



Ch£V£B£LLS. 



About the year 1841 I was at a railway station 

 (Ronde) near Northampton, when one of the 

 royal dukes drove up ; I think it was Cambridge. 

 Lord Fitzroy Somerset was, however, with him, 

 and two men-servants, Germans, I believe. One 

 of these men was herculean in stature and propor- 

 tion : he wore a small fur muff. 



Query, Is the custom of gentlemen wearing 

 muffs common on the Continent ? An answer to 

 this question may assist to settle the first Query. 



R. K. 



GLASS-MAKING IN ENGLAND. 

 (Vol. v., p. 322.) 



A few lines on this interesting subject of art- 

 history may perhaps not be out of place. 



On the 8th of September, 9th Elizabeth, licence 

 was granted to Anthony Been, alias Dolyn, and 

 John Care (born in the Low Countries), for 

 twenty-one years, to build furnace-houses, build- 

 ings, and other engines and instruments for melting 

 and making of glass for glazing; "such as is made 

 in France, Loraine, and Burgundy, and to put in 

 work the said art, feat, or mystery of making such 

 glass ! After this, Peter Briet and Peter Appell 

 (the assigns and deputies of John Care) com- 

 plained that great quantities of glass were still 

 imported from foreign countries : the queen there- 

 fore, in October, 1576, renewed the licence for 

 twenty-one years, prohibiting the manufacture by 

 other persons, and prohibiting the importation. 



Mr. Burn, in his interesting work on the Foreign 

 Protestant Refugees in England (p. 253.), gives 

 some curious particulars concerning the duties, 

 from which we learn that the patentees were to 

 pay the queen for every case of glass " of the 

 fashion of Normandy," containing twenty-four 

 tables of glass, \5d.; and for every case of Loraine 

 or Burgundy fashion, containing twenty bundles, 

 \5d.; and for the way of Hessen glass, containing 

 sixty bundles, 3s. Id. The patentees were to charge 

 for every case of Normandy fashion glass, contain- 

 ing one hundred and twenty feet, 32s. ; for the 

 bundle of Loraine or Burgundy, containing ten 

 feet, 2\d. the bundle; for the way of Hessen fashion 

 glass, 3Z. at the most : and they were to teach the 

 art to a convenient number of Englishmen, as 



