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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



[No. 153. 



should, according to the custom of London, be 

 Jjound to them. 



In the year 1589 one George Long presented 

 a curious petition for a patent for making glass, 

 urging as an Inducement, that he would only have 

 two glass-houses in England (instead of fifteen), 

 and the rest in Ireland; whereby the English 

 woods would be preserved, and the Irish super- 

 fluous woods used. 



Long's letter to Lord Burghley upon the subject 

 is so historically interesting, that I transcribe it at 

 length. It is preserved in MS. Lansd. 59. Art. 72. 

 Orig.: 



" To the right honorable the Lord Burgleighe, 

 Lord Treasurer of England. 



" Att what tyme that Troubles began in France and 

 the Lowe Countryes, so that Glass could not conve- 

 niently be brought from Loraine into England, certaine 

 Glassmakers did covenaunt with Anthony Dollyne and 

 John Carye, merchants of the saide Low Countryes, to 

 come and make Glass in England. Wheruppon Dol- 

 lyne and Carye obtained the Patent for making of 

 Glass in England in September the ix"" yeare of the 

 Queene's Majesties raigne, for xxi yeares ensuinge, 

 under these conditions, to teache Englishmen and to pay 

 custome ; which Patent was fully expired a yeare ago. 



" Carye and Dollyne, having themselves no know- 

 ledge, were driven to lease out the benefitt of their 

 Patent to the Frenchmen, who by no means would 

 teach Englishmen, nor at any time paide one peny 

 custome. Carye being dead, Dollyne took virf. upon a 

 xjase of glass. 



" For not performaunce of covenants, their Patent 

 being then voide, about vi yeares after their Grant, 

 other men erected and set on worke divers Glasshouses 

 in sundry parts of the Realm, and having spent the 

 Woods in one place, doe dayly so continue erecting newe 

 Workes in another place without checke or controule. 



" About vii yeares past, your Honor called them 

 that kept Glasshouses before you, to knowe who should 

 paye tbe Quene's custome, whose answere generally 

 was, that there was no custome due, but by condicions 

 of a speciall priviledg which no one of them did enjoye, 

 and they not to paye custome for comodyties made 

 within the Realme. Thus hath her Majestie beene 

 deceived and still wilbe without reformation. 



" I most humbly desire your Honor to graunt me 

 the like Patent, considering my pretence is not to con- 

 tynue the making of Glass still in England, but that 

 therbye I maye effectually repress them. And wheras 

 ther are now fifteen Glasshouses in England. Yf it 

 so like your Honor (granting me the like Patent) to 

 enjoyne me at no tyme to keepe above ii Glasshouses 

 in England, but to erect the rest in Ireland, wherof 

 will ensue divers commodityes to the commune wealth, 

 according to the effect of my former Petition. 



'• The Woods in England will be preserved. 



" The superfluous Woods in Ireland wasted, then 

 which in tyme of rebellion Her Majestie hath no 

 greater enemy theare. 



" The Country wilbe much strengthened, for every 

 . Glasshouse wilbe so good as twenty men in garison. 



" The country wilbe sooner brought to civilitye, for 

 many poore folke shalbe sett on worke I 



" And wheras her Majestie hath now no peny proffitt, 

 a double custome must of necessity be paide. Glass 

 be transported from Ireland to England. 



" May it please your Honor to be gracious unto me, 

 and God willing, I will putt in sufficient securitye not 

 only to performe all things concerning the Patent, but 

 allso (thankfully acknowledging the good I shall re- 

 ceive by your Lordshipp) to repaire your Honor's 

 buildings from tyme to tyme with the best glasse, 

 duringe the terme of the said Patent ; and allso bestowe 

 one hundred angells at your Honor's appointment. I 

 have spoken to Dollyne, as your Honor willed me; 

 and may it please your Honor to appoint some tymes 

 that we may both attend your Honor. 



" Your Honor's poore Orator, 



" George Longe." 



Whether Mr. Long's project was carried into 

 effect, I have not been able to ascertain. 



Edward F. Kimbault. 



CAP OP MAINTENANCE. 



(Vol. vL, p. 271.) 



"Without being able to explain the origin of the 

 Cap of Maintenancs, I can trace its use further 

 back than the reign of Henry VIII. 



In an old account of the celebration of the 

 Feast of St. George by Edward IV. at Windsor, 

 29th April, 1482, is the following statement: 



" And when the Kinge was comen into his Stall, he 

 proceeded before the high Aulter, where Lossey Cog- 

 nyzance of the Pope's Cubiculars presented to his 

 highness a Lettre from the Pope, with a Sword and a 

 Cap of Maintenance, and the Archbishoppe of Yorke, 

 Chancellor of Englande, redde the Lettre, and declared 

 the effect of the same, and then girte the Sworde about 

 the Kinge, and sette the Cappe on the King's hedde, 

 and forthwith toke it off ageyne, and so proceeded to 

 the procession, and the foresaid Cappe was borne one 

 the point of the said sworde by the Lorde Standley." 

 — Anstis' Register of the Order of the Garter, ii. 211. 

 note k. 



Henry VII., when at York on St. George's Eve, 

 1486, had "on his hedde his Cap of Maintenance." 

 — Leland's Collectanea, second edition, iv. 191. 



The following detailed account of the presenta- 

 tion, by Pope Innocent VIII. to Henry VII., of a 

 Sword and Cap of Maintenance appears to refer 

 to the year 1488, shortly after the Feast of All 

 Saints. 



" At the breking up of the Counseille, ther entrid 

 into this .Reaulme a Cubiculer of the Pope's, which 

 brought to the Kyng a Suerde and a Cappe, whiche for 

 honnor of the Pope was honnourably receiyvid by 

 the Kings commaundemcnt, in manner as ensueth : 

 Furste the King sente an Officer of Armes to the see 

 side, to cause thos religious places of Canterbury and 

 outher Townes by the way, to make him goode chier9> 



