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as for Pliny, I fuppofe it will readily be allowed me, 
that no writer, how refpectable foever his authority 
may be, can pofiibly prove another, who lived two 
hundred years after him, miftaken, when he alludes 
to the practice of his own times. 
As I hope the evidence is now undeniable, which 
I produced in my differtation, to prove the ufe of 
glafs in windows to have been as early as the third 
century (not to mention the probable reafons there 
offered to fhew, that it might have fubfifted fome 
ages before), it may not be unacceptable to the cu- 
rious in antiquity, to obferve the flow progrefs this 
very commodious invention made in travelling to- 
wards the weft> flnee it appears, by our hiftorians *, 
that it did not reach our ifland till the feventh cen- 
tury j when it was brought hither from France, 
either by Benedict abbot of Winal, or Wilfrid arch- 
bifhop of York j as -f- lanthorns of horn were in- 
troduced by King Alfred, about the fame time, viz. 
680. 
Having now propofed all I had to offer, relating 
to the feveral ufes of plates of glafs, already men- 
tioned in my effay, I beg the Society’s indulgence 
to permit me to fubjoin two others, which I have 
met with flnee that communication. 
The firfl: of thefe was fuggefted to me by my (late) 
worthy friend Smart Lethieullier, Efq; who, laft 
winter at Bath, informed me, that he had in his 
collection an urn, of a quadrangular figure, which 
* Simon Dunelm. Hift. Ang. Script, p. 92. Stubbs A<t. Pont. 
Ebor. Hift. Ang. Script. 
f Stavefly’s Hili. of Churches, p. 103. 
had 
