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to their fabrication. Some of the Low Country anti- 

 quaries have boldly termed them Eoman * and as the 

 demand now-a-days for " curiosities " is always met hy 

 a full supply, pipes have been fabricated in red clay to 

 imitate the so-called Samian pottery, so abundant in 

 Eoman localities, and offered to such " collectors " as 

 may wish for them. 



Ben Jonson notes that the best pipes of his time 

 were made at Winchester. He has a curious jest on the 

 form of the old tobacco-pipe, in the comparison whim- 

 sically made by Saviolina, in his Every Man out of his 

 Humour: — " Your pipe bears the true form of a wood- 

 cock's head," — a simile illustrated in Gifford's edition 

 by an engraving of an old English pipe, which if 

 reversed, and with a short stem, bears some resem- 

 blance to the head of that bird ; which was also the 

 type of folly ! 



The early period at which tobacco-pipes were first 

 manufactured, is established by the fact that the in- 

 corporation of the craft of tobacco-pipe makers took 

 place on the fifth of October, 1619. " Their privileges 

 extending through the cities of London and Westmin- 

 ster, the kingdom of England and dominion of Wales. 

 They have a Master, four Wardens, and about twenty- 

 four Assistants. They were first incorporated by King 

 James in his seventeenth year, confirmed again by 



* They are so exhibited in the Antwerp Museum, merely from the fact 

 of being found in Roman localities, regardless of the old Irish postulate : 

 " though born in a stable a man is no horse." 



