68 TUDOR HOUSES IN DORSET. 



formerly at Wolfeton (Hutchins, II. 549). At Little's Farm in 

 Winterborne Kingston there are a few specimens, one of 1500, 

 another of 1601 (S. and D. N. & Q. IX, 201). At Parnham is a fine 

 window with the royal Tudor arms brought from Nonsuch. 

 (Garner & Stratton plate clxxxi). 



Aubrey wrote that before the Reformation there was no 

 county or great town but had glass painters, but that old 

 Harding of Blanclford was the only country glass painter he 

 knew, and Harding died in 1643 aged 83. 



TABLE GLASS. 



In 1549 eight Italian glass-makers were enticed here, who 

 revived and improved the local art. King Henry VIII 

 encouraged the manufacture, and owned a large collection of 

 fine pieces, all foreign. Specimens are of the greatest rarity. 

 A dated drinking glass of 1586 is in the British Museum. A 

 factory was established in 1576 at Buckholt Wood, Hampshire, 

 where fragments have been unearthed. 



Such glass was at first confined to royalty and the nobility, 

 silver, horn, leather and wood receptacles being used by other 

 classes. 



METAL WORK. 

 Lead. 



There were lead mines in the Mendips worked by the 

 Romans, who not only exported this metal, but freely used it 

 for their water-pipes, coffins, &c. 



In Tudor days it was largely employed externally for certain 

 flat portions of the roof, gutters, domes, and rain water pipes 

 and pipe-heads. 



The latter were very ornamental, and decorated " with 

 monograms, crests and arms, Tudor roses, fleurs-de-lis, &c., 

 and sometimes dates. 



Windsor Castle and Haddon Hall have noteworthy specimens 

 of the early and Knole Park of the late period. 



A lead pipe-head dated 1579 with battlemented cresting is 



