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In the proceedings of the Dublin Society for June 14th, 1750, 

 the following minute is to be found : — " Mr. Rupert Barber has 

 of late erected a small glass-house for making vials and other 

 green glass wares at the end of Lazar's Hill, and has had before 

 the Society specimens of decanters, bottles, vials, and many other 

 sorts of green glass ware. He being the first that has made that 

 manufacture in this Kingdom, which before was imported from 

 abroad, ordered that ;^2o be given to him." This factory does 

 not seem to have lasted very long ; no other notice of it occurs, 

 and it is not marked on Rocque's map of 1756. 



In February, 1759, an English company, with Thomas Smith 

 Jeudwin, John Landon, and Henry Lunn as proprietors, appears 

 to have taken over Dean's Square Glass-house in Abbey Street, 

 and to have carried on the manufacture of crown glass. The 

 proprietors began making crowr) glass in August, 1759, and in 

 the following year erected another glass-house for making all 

 kinds of flint and green vials. In December, 1759, they 

 obtained a premium of ^50 from the Dublin Society for window 

 glass. 



The proprietors of the crown glass factory petitioned Parlia- 

 ment for aid in 1761 and 1765, and stated that they were all 

 natives of London, and had come over to Ireland to undertake 

 the manufacture of window glass. In February, 1759, they took 

 concerns in Abbey Street, and had spent the sum of _;^i 2,000 in 

 bringing artists from abroad and procuring materials. They car- 

 ried on the manufacture for three years, but were obliged to drop 

 it owing to the workmen doing damage to the glass pots. They 

 took Irish apprentices, but the English workmen did not get on 

 with these. They also stated that they had erected a flint glass- 

 house near their other one, and that they had obtained the sum 

 of ;^i,359 from the Dublin Society. 



Jeudwin and a John McGawly obtained a premium in 1766-7 

 for bottles made at Ballycastle, valued at ;^i,930. Whether 

 Jeudwin remained at Ballycastle is uncertain, but in October, 1771, 

 the bottle glass-house at Ballycastle with stores, offices, etc., was 

 advertised to be let from the ist November of that year. Applica- 



