Ffrench — On a Manner of Lighting Houses in Old Times. 629' 
under his guidance and direction, which I exhibit (fig. 2), and which he 
says is exactly similar to the candlesticks that he remembers in use. I 
have obtained from the County Meath a similar description of a candle- 
stick, except that instead of the rush being held in the notch by a spring, 
a wooden pincers was attached by a wooden dowel to the upright shaft. 
There is also a record of a rush-light candlestick seen in the County 
Sligo in the year 1760. It is described as two feet six inches high, 
with a stand of three legs and a catch to hold the rush-light. It must 
have been a candlestick such as one of these which the Hon. Emily 
Lawless describes as having been found under sixteen feet of peat in a 
Kerry bog, the material of which it was composed being all wood. I 
now pass on to the iron forms of the rush-light candlestick, which 
plainly show the influence of the wooden forms which preceded them. 
The first iron candlestick which I exhibit has a twisted iron stem, 
standing on three bowed and twisted iron supports, which are combined 
by an iron ring. It is fourteen and a-half inches in gross height; and 
the ring on which it stands is nearly five inches in width. It has a 
pincers arrangement at right angles with the shaft, the idea of which 
is plainly derived from the old wooden form; and it has also attached 
to it a place on which to stick a candle, which is what may be properly 
