OLD ENGLISH PIPES. 165 



"Dr. Wilson communicated a notice of the discovery 

 of various of the small tobacco-pipes popularly termed 

 ' Celtic ' or ' Elfin pipes,' in digging the foundation 

 of a new school-house at Bonnington, in the imme- 

 diate vicinity of Edinburgh. Along with them were 

 found a quantity of bodies or placks of James VI., 

 which he exhibited with the pipes,* and at the same 

 time expressed his belief that they probably supplied 

 a veiy trustwortlry clue to the date of this somewhat 

 curious class of minor antiquities.f " 



Pipes, exactly similar to Figs. 5 and 6, were found 

 at Hoylake, Cheshire, " on the site of the camp where 

 the troops of King William III. were located, previous 

 to their embarkation for Ireland; and also on the 

 battle-field of the Boyne, at Dundalk, and in other 

 parts of Ireland where the troops were quartered. In 

 the pictures of Francis van Mieris, who flourished 

 during the latter half of the seventeenth century, such 

 pipes are delineated. t " 



Such are the pipes which have been found in close 

 contiguity with Eoman relics, and have occasionally 

 puzzled persons to know the period they should assign 



*In the Sussex Archaeological Collections, vol. ii., is an engraving of an 

 andiron or fire-dog, ' ' the upper portion in the costume of temp. Jas. I. 

 (6th of Scotland), holding a tobacco pipe in the right hand, and in the left 

 a jug or tankard. It is of use as an authority for the form of tobacco pipes 

 at that era." 



t Proceedings of the Scottish Antiquaries, 1853, vol. i., p. 182. Dr. 

 Wilson has since incorporated this in his excellent Ethnographical Sketch 

 of Pipes and Tobacco, carrying out and enforcing the idea. 



J Proceedings of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 

 vol. iii. 



