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and as said glass-house is sixty feet in diameter in the clear, capable 

 of carrying on said manufacture in all its branches, the proprietors 

 in time intend to make window glass and other plate glass, which 

 must be of great advantage to the nation." 



Laurence Cruise appears to have died in 1756, for on August 

 24th of that year the following appears in the Dublitijourjial:— "To 

 be sold, the third part of the Ballycastle glass-house lately erected 

 for the manufacture of bottles, with all necessary tools, furnace 

 pots, and materials for carrying on for one year. Proposals to be 

 sent to Mrs. Cruise, Oxmantown, Dublin, or to John Magawly, 

 Ballycastle. 



Boyd and the other proprietors appear to have carried on the 

 business until 1764, when, at the instance of Boyd, Henry Lunn, 

 and Thomas Smith Jeudwin, English glass-makers in Dublin, took 

 a lease of the Ballycastle glass-house at the rent of ;^i,ooo per 

 annum. 



Hugh Boyd died the 15th June, 1765, and Lunn, Jeudwin, 

 and Magawly seem to have continued the manufacture until about 

 1768, when, owing to disagreements between Jackson Wray and 

 Lunn and Jeudwin, the latter appear to have left. Lunn, Jeudwin, 

 and Magawly received premiums from the Dublin Society in the 

 years 1765 and 1766 for bottles valued each year at about ;j^2,ooo, 



In October, 1771, the Ballycastle glass-house, with stores, yard, 

 offices, and a parcel of land, was advertised to be let, but whether 

 it was taken over by a new company or not is uncertain. In 

 1782 it is mentioned that a ship with glass from Ballycastle arrived 

 in Belfast. 



The glass-house appears to have continued working until pro- 

 bably about 1785 or 1790. In 1795 the Ballycastle colliery was 

 advertised to be let, but no mention was made of the glass-house. 



The chimney of the glass factory remained standing until 

 towards the close of the last century, when it was pulled down, 



LONDONDERRY. 



The only reference I can find to glass-making in Londonderry 

 belongs to the year 1820. In the ordnance Survey of the County 



