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Ireland from Captain Woodhouse, who, together with a Ralph 

 Pylling, assisted him in setting up two glass-houses in Ireland. 

 Longe appears to have carried on the manufacture of glass in Ire- 

 land, for among the manuscripts of the Marquis of Salisbury the 

 following petition of about the year 1597 occurs: "Petition of 

 George Longe who first brought to pass making of glass in Ire- 

 land. In the ninth year of the reign of Elizabeth certain strangers 

 came to England and obtained a privilege for making Normandy 

 glass. Burgundy glass and coarse drinking glass, on condition that 

 they should pay custom as if it were transported, and teach Eng- 

 lishmen the ,mystery. These conditions were in no part per- 

 formed, and besides, the privilege being for twenty-one years is 

 expired. Ever since certain strangers, no subjects and not deni- 

 zened, neither licensed nor forbidden, have and do (as it were by 

 intrusion) continue the trade, to the great prejudice of the realm, 

 wasting limber for want of underwood in divers parts of the realm. 

 Her Majesty nor any subject reaping commodity. His suit is that 

 it may please Her Majesty to perform the humble suit of George 

 Stone, ber footman, concerning a privilege for Ireland, as also to 

 suppress such strangers in England as are not licensed. This will 

 be beneficial : — To Her Majesty, who for thirty years has had no 

 custom for an infinite number of glass made and used here, being 

 made in Ireland and transported hither it will yield custom. To 

 the Commonwealth, in this, that the timber and woods in England 

 shall be preserved, and the superfluous woods in Ireland to better 

 use employed, being now a continual harbour for rebels. Many 

 idle [)eople will be set to work to cut wood, burn ashes, dig and 

 carry sand, clay, etc. Much trade and civility will increase in that 

 rude country by inhabiting those great woods, and the passage to 

 and fro of ships for transportation of the glass. 



Licences were granted to Sir Jerome Bowes in 1592, to Sir 

 Percival Hart and Edward Forcett in 1607, and to Sir Robert 

 Mansell in 1636 and 1638 for making glass in England and Ire- 

 land, while in 1634 Sir Percival Hart obtained a new licence for 

 making black glass drinking cups and vessels and pots in Ireland, 

 similar to those made in Murano in Italy, having the monopoly 



