504 ON THE TOBACCO PIPE MANUFACTURE, ETC. 



of them shall not, or do not, at any time hereafter import, convey, or 

 bring, or cause to be imported, conveyed or brought, into this our realm 

 of England and Dominion of Wales, from any part beyond the sea, any 

 kind or sort of tobacco pipes whatsoever to be here uttered, sold or put 

 to sale upon pain of being punished according to the utmost severity of 

 our laws.'" It was further enacted " that they nor any of them do from 

 henceforth for ever hereafter directly or indirectly export, transport, 

 carry, or convey out of our said Kingdom of England or Dominion of 

 Wales, any tobacco-pipe clay into any other foreign parts under the 

 penalty of three shillings for every pound of tobacco-pipe clay which 

 shall be exported or transported, mentioned in a certain Act of Parlia- 

 ment began at Westminster the eighth day of May, in the thirteenth 

 year of our reign, and there now held and continued." 



It is not difficult to trace the motive which must have induced 

 Charles to grant this Charter ; for it is easily seen that the consumption 

 of tobacco, from its introduction into England by Sir Walter Raleigh 

 during a period of about 68 years, had become so great that it led the 

 king to fear that his forests woidd be destroyed in supplying the timber 

 necessary to burn the pipes made. 



It is also a curious fact, that at the present day coals are prohibited 

 in the burning of pipe kilns in populous towns, and of necessity a great 

 quantity of coke is consumed. 



This charter, from which we have extracted so freely, is kept up to a 

 certain extent to the present time, for it is well known that within the 

 last ten years pipe-makers have been imprisoned for disobeying its laws. 

 The Company now hold their Court at the Guildhall, and is composed 

 of a Master, Wardens, and a Committee, who are called " Legs of the 

 Table," corresponding, we suppose, with the "Assistants" of the Charter. 



Several Bye Laws were passed in the reign of George the Third, 

 for the better regulation of the trade, and all persons exercising the same 

 (pursuant to the Charter granted to the Company) and were approved, 

 allowed, confirmed, and signed by the Right Hon. the Lord High Chan- 

 cellor of Great Britain, and the Right Hon. the Lord Chief Justices of 

 His Majesty's Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas, April 9th, 

 1821. In the reign of Queen Anne, a duty was levied upon the pipe, 

 but we may well suppose it was a tax as obnoxious to our countrymen 

 who lived in that reign, as the latest item of American taxation will be 

 to our Yankee cousins, namely, a duty upon Crinoline. 



Smokers are not aware to what a wretched state the makers of the 

 common clay pipe have been reduced by the Innkeepers of England and 

 the Tobacconists of Scotland, owing to the introduction of the system of 

 giving pipes away. 



It may be readily imagined that persons buying articles to give away, 

 will, in almost every instance, select the poorest quality at the lowest 

 price possible. This state of things has not only materially injured 

 the pipe-maker, but as well the smoker. I would show this from 



