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them for alleged debt. Owing to Wray's persecution, Lunn said he would 

 have to give up the manufacture of flint glass. 



Lunn, however, appears to have carried on the manufacture of glass in 

 Abbey Street until 1793, when the glass house was taken over by Charles 

 Mulvany & Co. Mulvany & Co., in 1801, commenced making window glass, 

 while their output of flint glass was said to have been the most extensive in 

 Ireland. This company carried on the manufacture in Abbey Street, and later 

 also at Eingsend, until about 1 837. 



About 1763 James Donnelly & Co., with English workmen, started a 

 glass house in Marlborough Green, where all kinds of cut, plain, and flowered 

 flint and green glass were made. In 1764 the glass house was enlarged and 

 the furnaces rebuilt. 



This factory was probably taken over by the Williams family (Richard, 

 WiUiam, and Isaac) ; for in 1764 Williams & Co., of Marlborough Green, 

 ol^tained a premium for their glass from the Royal Dublin Society. 



In 1785 William and Richard WilHams petitioned Parliament against the 

 proposal to pull down the glass houses in the city of Dublin, and to erect 

 them outside ; and stated that they had carried on the manufacture in the 

 one place for nearly thirty years, and were employing about seventy persons. 



About 1772 Richard Williams opened a warehouse for the sale of his glass 

 at 15 Lower Ormond Quay; and among the objects mentioned were lustres, 

 girandoles, chandeliers, candlesticks, and candlemolds, pyramids, salvers, 

 bowls, decanters, water-glasses, drinking-glasses, smelling-bottles, epergnes, 

 hall and staircase bells, and many other articles of cut, plain, and engraved 

 flint glass, and also plate glass. 



One of the Williams family erected a new glass house in Marlborough 

 Street iu 1777 ; but when the scaffolding was removed, it fell to the ground, 

 killing four men. William Williams, who died iu 1788, is said to have made 

 flint, bottle, plate, and window glass ; and in 1773 advertised garden glasses 

 of all sizes, window glass in cribs, or cut in squares ; pickling-jars of all sizes; 

 gardevins to fit any case, and any article and of any colour that is made of 

 glass. The Williams family appear to have carried on the glass manufacture 

 in Potter's Alley until about 1831, when the concerns were taken over by 

 Edward S. Irwin and Charles Irwin, who continued the manufacture until 

 1855. 



In 1785 iron works were erected by a Mr. Carrothers, near Ballybough 

 Bridge ; but during the next year they were removed to Thomas Street ; and 

 the concerns at Ballybough Bridge were taken over by Thomas Chebsey & Co., 

 for the purpose of carrying on the manufacture of flint glass and plate glass 

 for coaches. In 1788 they opened a warehouse in Jervis Street, which they 



