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142. Ditto. “ Sigillum Balliorum Dorcestre.” 
143. “Ball 5 de Dorchester.” 
144. “ Sigillum Johnanis Uvedale,” 1430 or 1440. 
145. “ S’ Johanna Gacelyn.” From her Charter to Stanley 
Abbey. 
146. Pope Boniface IX. “ Bonifatius P/P. VIIII.” 
147. Counterseal of ditto. “ S.P.A. S.P.E.” (Sanctus Paulus, 
Sanctus Petrus.) 
148. John Hertwell, Lord of Preston, Wilts. “ S. Johan’ Hert- 
well Difs de Preston. 
149. “ Sigillu Johannis Pynnock.” 
150. “ S’ Thome Palet.” 
151. “ Sigillum Johannis de Woodforde.” 
152. Prebend of Utfculmb in Salisbury Cathedral. “ Sigill. 
Prebend de Ufculmb in Ecclia. Cath. Sarum.” 
153. Robert Benson, Recorder of New Sarum. 
154. William, Abbot of Malmesbury. 
Tobacco Pipes. 
CASE N N. 
From the large number of examples found it would seem that 
the use of tobacco must have been general during the 17th and 
18th centuries. The smallness of the bowl in the earlier specimens 
is remarkable. The fairy origin of these small pipes is or was a 
common article of faith among the peasantry in England, Scotland, 
and Ireland; in the latter they were held to belong to the Cluri- 
caimes, a mischievous fairy-demon, and when discovered they were 
broken, or otherwise treated with indignity, as a kind of retort for 
the tricks which their supposed owners had played off. Many 
pipes of this form were found in the parish of Old Swinford, 
Worcestershire : the country folks there had a tradition that it 
was a favourite spot for the resort of Queen Mab and her court, 
and that among other appendages of royalty was a fairy pipe- 
manufactory, of which these were the remains. 
From the occasional juxta-position of tobacco-pipes with objects 
of more remote antiquity, it has been held by some writers, with¬ 
out sufficient reason, that they are to be assigned to a more ancient 
period than the introduction of tobacco in the reign of Elizabeth. 
Fuller, in his “Worthies of Wiltshire,” says “The best tobacco- 
pipes for shape and colour (as curiously sized) are made at Ames- 
bury, in this county. Gauntlett pipes , having that mark at their 
heel, are the best. They may be called chimneys portable in 
pockets. At the first bringing over of tobacco, pipes were made 
of silver and other metalls.” He then goes on to relate the ingenious 
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