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According to Mr. "William George, John Innys was living at 
Eedland Court as early as 1754, during the lifetime of John Cossins. 
The Poll Book for 1739, in the Bristol Museum Library, which 
belonged to him, bears the inscription on the fly-leaf — 
" John Innys, 
1756, 
Bedland Court, 
Gloucr." 
by which it would seem as if at this period he was permanently 
settled at Redland Court. Mr. George informs me that in John 
Cossins' trust deed it is said that Mrs. Cossins bequeathed her 
estate to her brother, John Innys, by which he concluded that John 
succeeded to E-edland Court, on the death of Mrs. Cossins in 1762. 
Under the circumstances it is difficult to understand the inscri^Dtion 
on the chest, where Jeremy Innys is styled "of Bedland Court, 
Esq.," as if he had succeeded to the estate on the death of John 
Cossins, in 1759. Jeremy Innys was living in 1762, when John is 
said to have succeeded to the estate. 
"With regard to the previous life of John Innys, from 1721 to 1725 
he was in partnership with his brother William, who was a London 
bookseller and publisher. Such being the case, it is natural to 
suppose that he would live in or near London, his connection with 
which city in addition being shown by his name appearing in the 
lists of the Stationers' Company. In 1749 he Avas apparently living 
at Chelsea, between which date and 1754 he perhaps moved to 
Bristol, as in the latter year he is said to have been living at 
Redland Court. 
I can obtain no confirmation of the statement made in the Bristol 
Times and Mirror of January 16th, 1886, that John Innys at one 
time used Cotham Tower as a snuff mill, and that he had a tobacco 
manufactory on the site of the Woolhall, in Thomas Street. In 
connection with this matter, I will quote the following passage 
from Latimer's Annals of Bristol in the ISth Century, page 303 : — 
" In 1754 William Plulme, a Scotch snuff maker, in Mary-le-jDort 
Street, leased a windmill at Cotham, and transferred it into a snuff 
manufactory. When he became bankrupt, three years later, the 
place was advertised for sale, ' having eleven mills erected for 
that purpose.' I am informed that 'eleven mills' should be 
^ eleven mulls,' a muU being a kind of large funnel-shaped mortar 
in which a steel pestle revolves by the aid of an arm and cog- 
wheels." 
Jf John Innys was at any time a tobacco manufacturer he must 
