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quality ; their thorough knowledge of the business, acquired 

 during a practice of upwards of twenty years, and under the 

 guidance of their father, a professional glass-maker, enables them 

 to assure their friends and the public that they have a great variety 

 of cut, plain and engraved glass that cannot be surpassed by the 

 recent discoveries of persons totally unacquainted with the nature 

 of any kind of glass. 



About 181 3 the glass-house on Peter's Hill ceased work for a 

 short time owing to repairs being necessary, but in the following 

 year recommenced the manufacture ; the proprietors stating that 

 they were making every description of flint glass equal to any made 

 in Great Britain or Ireland and that they cut and engraved glass 

 to any pattern. Again in 1823 they stopped work for a short time 

 owing to having to build a new furnace. In 1828 they state that 

 they will reduce the price of glass thirty per cent, on all plain glass 

 and that the glass manufactured at Peter's Hill is equal in quality 

 to any in the United Kingdom. 



In March, 1833, the proprietors state that they intend to relin- 

 quish the business on the ist May of that year and will let or sell 

 the interest in the concern, which is in complete repair and at full 

 work. It is uncertain if the interest was sold, but in 1836 the 

 " Belfast Glass Work Company, Peter's PI ill, " advertise that they 

 have now commenced manufacturing and have for sale every article 

 of flint glass. 



In October, 1 838, owing to the death of one of the partners the 

 Belfast Glass Works were offered for sale, and it is stated that there 

 was a six-pot furnace, put up within the last six months, and capable 

 of manufacturing 4,000 lbs of glass weekly ; that the premises were 

 held on lease for thirty three years at an annual rent of ^69 \Zs. 6d., 

 and have been established over thirty years. Purchasers could 

 have the entire stock of cut and plain glass, utensils, coal, sand, 

 pots, moulds, etc. 



The Belfast Glass Works appear to have been purchased by 

 John Kane, about 1840. 



About 1822 John Wheeler, who had been in the employment of 

 Benjamin Edwards, erected a new glass-house for making flint glass 



