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of incorporation from James I. The Company of 

 Pipe-Makers consisted of a master, four wardens, 

 and twenty-four assistants. Their arms were : Argent 

 on a mount in base vert, three plants of tobacco 

 growing and flowering, all proper. Crest : A Moor, 

 in his dexter hand a tobacco-pipe ; in his sinister 

 a roll of tobacco, all proper. Supporters : Two 

 young Moors proper, wreathed about the loins with 

 tobacco leaves vert. Appropriately enough, the 

 motto of the Pipe-Makers' Company was ' Let 

 brotherly love continue.' The guild was dissolved 

 about a century ago. 



All pipes then were made of clay, though occa- 

 sionally some were made of iron or brass. The pipe 

 of Miles Standish, a little iron thing about the size 

 of a common clay, is still preserved in America. 

 Sometimes a sumptuous smoker had a pipe specially 

 carved out of wood. There is such a pipe beautifully 

 decorated in the style of the seventeenth century in 

 the Kensington Museum. These, however, were 

 exceptions to the rule. Until forty years ago a pipe 

 meant a clay, and of the various varieties and shapes 

 there is an interesting collection in the British 

 Museum. 



The two famous makers of pipes in the seventeenth 

 century seem to have been Thomas Gauntlet and 

 John Legge, large numbers of pipes bearing their 

 trade-marks and initials having been found. The 

 small barrel-bowled short pipes of Elizabethan times 

 held their ground with little variation until the 

 Revolution, when England began to smoke bigger 

 bowled pipes with long, straight stems, adopting 



