PIPE-MAKERS. 



Kl- 



Iving Charles I., and lastly on the twenty-ninth of 

 April in the fifteenth year of King Charles II., in all 

 the priviliges of their aforesaid char- 

 ters. The annexed device is given 

 by this company on all their publick 

 occasions."* Arms which simply ex- 

 hibit a tobacco-plant flourishing in 

 full vigour. Allen in his History 

 of London, describes them more 

 fully: — "Argent on a mount in base 

 vert, three plants of tobacco, growing and flowering, 

 all proper. Crest. — A Moor, in his dexter hand a 

 tobacco-pipe, in his sinister a roll of tobacco, all proper. 

 Supporters. — Two young Moors proper, wreathed about 

 the loins with tobacco-leaves vert. Motto. — ' Let 

 brotherly love continue.'" 



For the introduction of this art the Dutch are 

 indebted to this country ; in proof of which, Mr. 

 Hollis, who passed through the Netherlands in 1748, 

 mentions that, having visited very extensive pipe- 

 works in Gouda, he was informed by the master of 

 them, that even to that day their principal working 

 tools bore English names.f Hentzner, who visited us 

 in the reign of Elizabeth, was surprised to see the 

 English " draw the smoke into their mouths (through 

 pipes made of clay), which they puff out again through 

 their nostrils, like funnels ; " and Dr. John Neander 

 says, that the English are to be praised for their mode 



* Strype's edition of Stowe, vol. ii., p. 247. 



+ Marryat's History of Pottery and Porcelain, p. 65. 



