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beth and James I. describe.* In the reign of William 

 III., they were occasionally made of iron and brass.f 

 Mr. Croker had one precisely like the Battle Bridge, 

 an iron specimen, which was found at Limerick. 



The old Dutchmen had an affection for their pipes, 

 and carried them in wooden cases more or less orna- 

 mented. Horace Walpole possessed that which be- 

 longed to the famous Admiral Van Tromp, it was 

 similar in form to that here engraved, which is also 



Dutch, formed of mahogany inlaid with brass, and 

 having the pious inscription " When man has the 

 right way taken, death has no fears for him." + It 

 opens with a spring on the heel, having a hinge at the 

 upper part. The pipe became the mark of a Dutch 

 engraver, M. Martini, at the commencement of the 

 seventeenth century ; it was placed above the double 



* See p. 61. 



+ The Albany Journal, U.S., in 1858, speaks of the pipe of the famed 

 Miles Standish, "which came over with him in the Mayflower, and was 

 smoked by him to the day of his death," as "a little iron affair of about 

 the size and shape of a common clay pipe." 



J This love of scriptural allusion is strongly indicative of the Low- 

 Countries, and was perhaps one result of their long religious wars. Drink- 

 ing cups, beer jugs, pipes, and tobacco boxes, are alike covered with 

 religious sentences and exhortations. 



