1807. ] 
ef Charles the First.*. As a company, 
they had a coat of arms and crest con- 
firmed to them by Robert Cook, Claren- 
cieux, 1588. 
Sick are a few of the particulars re- 
lating to the introduction and use of vlass 
in windows. . More: diligent enquirers 
tay possibly be able Eo, increase the 
number. But enough is exiibited to 
prove that its introduction was gradual ; 
and that the expence of procuring it wi . 
for many aves a counterpoisc to the 
comfort and conv enlence it was thought 
to bestow. T Nt 
P. S. Since the printing of the Paper on the 
Introduction 9 Chimneys, (vol xxiii. p. 456.) 
the Editor of the Antiquary has met with a 
passave in Leland’s Itinerary, which serves to 
Shew that, in dis me, chimneys, as they are 
Now constructed, were not of very frequent 
Occurrence. He is speaking of Yolton Cas- 
tle. /(Iuinerar: ivol. vit. ps: 19: )1 $4, One 
thinge I muche notyd in the Haulle of Bol- 
ton, how chimeneys were conveyed by:tun- 
Il, -p. 
* Strype’s Stow. vol. 230. 
If. 16. 
+ In the following extract from one of the 
App. 
indentures for the erection and completion of 
the Lady Chapel, at Warwick, are some par- 
ticulars well deserving the reader’s attention. 
It seems to indicate that in the reign cf Hen- 
ry the Sixth, although glass for wincows was 
made in Engla nd, yetthat the glass of toreign 
manufacture was in the highest estimaticn. 
*¢ John Prudde, of ‘Vestminster, glazier; 
23 Junii, 25 H. VI. covenanteth, &c. to glase 
ail the windows in the new chappell in War- 
wick, with glasse beyond the seas, and with 
no glasse of England; and that in the finest 
Wise, with the best, clearest, and strongest 
glasse of beyond the sea that may be inevel in 
England, and of the finest colours of blue, 
yellow, red, purpure, sanguine, and violet, 
and of all other colours that. shall be most 
necessary, and best to make rich and embel- 
Jish the matters, images, and storyes, that 
shall be delivered and appointed by the said 
executors, by patterns in paper, afterwards to 
be newly traced and pictured by another pain- 
ter in rich colcur, at the charges of the said: 
glasier 5; all which proportions the said John 
Prudde must make perfectly to fine glase, 
eneylin it, and finely and strongly set ic ia 
lead and souder, as welf as any glasse is in 
England. Of white glasse, green glasse, 
black glasse, he shall putin as little as shall 
be needrull for the shewing and setting forth 
the matters, images, and storyes. And the said 
glasier shall take charge of the same glasse 
wrought, and to be wrought, in Warwick, 
and set up there in the windows of the safd 
ehappell; the executors, paying to the said 
glasier for every foot of glasse iis. and so for 
the whole, xcil, is. xd.” See Dugd. Warw. 
p. 300. 
Tour in the Isle of Wight. 
19 
nells made on the syds of the wauls betwixt 
the lights in the haull; and by this meanes,y | 
and by no covers, is the smoke of the harthe 
in the hawle wonder strangly conveyed.” By 
cover, is probably intended cupola; or per- 
haps such a lantern as that at Glastonbury. 
i 
Lor the Monthly Magazine. 
TOUR IN. THE ISLE OF WIGHT. 
(Continued from p. 429, of Vol. 23.) 
HE marine villa of the late Sir R. 
Worsicy next demands attention, 
The house is situated in a well-wooded 
vale near the shore. - On one side of the 
lawn is a large clegant pavilion, which 
opens with folding doors of plate-glass ou 
the downy green sward. A range of 
similar wiudows opens onthe sea. Tt is 
fitted up in a style of simple grandeur ; 
large slabs, china vases, and sophas, cou= 
stituting the principal part of the furm- 
ture. An elegant arcade extends all 
along the southern side, and the whole 
displays an unusual degree of clegance 
and graudeur. A plantation, of vines, on. 
terraces one above another, is seen frau 
the pavilion. Trellisses are placed avanist 
the perpendicular face of each stage, for 
traiming the vines in the manner of espa- 
liers, A pellucid stream just burst from 
1s crystal spring, works its channel, and 
winds its i ay aids a thick grove to- 
wards the sea-cliff, whence it falls ina 
considerable cascade on the shore. 
By a steep ascent we reach the village 
of St. Lawrence; at the top stands its 
diminutive church, which is the smallest - 
in the island, measuring only twenty feet 
by twelve. Prom this eminence the view 
of the village is singular and interesting ; 
its detached cottages are thrown at dite 
rent heights amongst irregular-fractured 
rocks, ornamented “occasionally with fine 
trees, and enriched with fields of corn, 
the range of mountain continuing its sub- 
lime and awful barrier behind, and the 
ocean filling the abyss below. The de- 
scending road gradually recedes from the 
sea, and leads to a village in a different 
style of beauty. Niton seems reposing 
in the vale of quiet; and after the wild 
and grand views the eye has been con- 
templating im the under cliffs, it affords 
the wearied imagination a delicious re- 
pose. » The western extr emity of the 
island affords some very sublime objects, 
Wanye from those we had yet seen; but 
these were obliged to be reserved for a 
new €xXcursion. 
Our attention had been arrested as we 
passed, he a little Ao white thatched - 
D 2 cottage, 
