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states that there were made all sorts of fine flint drinking glasses ; 

 salvers ; decanters ; branches of several sorts and globes for 

 lamps. Another advertisement in 1737 states that the glasses 

 made were equal in beauty of metal and workmanship to those 

 made in London, and that there were also made green glass 

 vessels for apothecaries and chemists ; bells for gardeners, together 

 with pint and other size bottles. 



I" ^735 Joseph Martin advertises that he "carves arms, 

 crests, words, letters and figures" on the s;lass made at this glass- 

 house, and is the only person in the Kingdom who does this work. 



In 1 741 the proprietors appear to have had some trouble with 

 the glass-house fire, as they advertise that they have imported all 

 sorts of glasses from London and will sell them at the old prices 

 until they can light the fire. In 1752 they appear to be still 

 importing English glass, including "all Sorts of wine glasses, 

 champagne and beer glasses cut with any pattern or foliage, green 

 bells for gardens, vials and apothecaries' funnels," there being no 

 mention of any glass actually being made, while in 1756 it is 

 stated in the Dublin Journal that a Hugh Henry purchased all the 

 stock-in-trade of the glass-house and had laid in a large quantity 

 of the best glasses of all kinds. This advertisement is headed 

 glass ze/flr^house, not glass house, while in the advertisement it is 

 stated that the highest price would be given for broken glass, which 

 seems to imply that glass was being made. It seems uncertain, 

 however, if any glass was made after about 1741, and no glass-house 

 is marked in Fleet Street on Rocque's Map of Dublin, dated 1756. 



In 1747 a glass-house for making bottles was erected on the 

 North Wall a little below the present Custom House, the site 

 being known as The Foot Lots, Nos. i, 2, and 3. Bottles were 

 first blown on April 7th, 1748, but in July the glass-house was 

 accidentally burnt down. 



In the Dublin Journal of November 29th, 1748, it is stated 

 that "a gentleman left some clay with Mr. Minty at the glass-house 

 on the North Strand to make tryal of." This may refer to some 

 of the glass-houses in Abbey Street, as no other reference to one 

 on the North Strand occurs. 



