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From a patent, granted in the first 
year of Richard the Second, 1878, we 
learn that John de Brampton was not 
only made glazier to the king within his 
Tower of hondon, but in all his castles 
and manors A proot either that the 
profession was a rare one, or that Brawp- 
ton was an extr aordinary workiman. 
There are, however, one or two more 
anthorities to quote, of a date consider- 
ably later. They are interesting, and 
certainly countenance, in a great mea- 
sure, Bishop Percy’s opimou. At any 
rate, they serve to show how slowly in- 
incaeckions even of the utmost conveni- 
ence are frequently received. 
William Harrison, the author of the 
Description of England, prefixed to Ho- 
Jingshed’s Chronicle, says (p. 187), that 
* <a id time, our Edeaiae houses, in- 
steade of classe, did use much lattice, 
and that made either of wicker or fine 
rifts of oke in checkerwise. J read also 
that some of the better sort in and be- 
fore the times of the Saxons, did make 
panels of horne instead of glasse, and fix 
them in wood calmes. Bat as horne in 
windaws is now (A. D. 1577) quite laid 
down in every place, so our lattises- are 
also growne into lesse use, because glasse 
is come to be so plentifull, and within 
very little so good cheapc, if not better, 
than the other. ”. He afterwards adds 
this remarkable passage :—“‘ Heretofore 
also the houses of our princes and noble- 
mea were often glazed with beryil (an 
example whereof is yet to be seen in 
Snadleie Castlet); but this especially in 
the times of the Romans, whereot also 
some fragments have been taken up in 
old ruines.” 
But. with regard to glass, says Bishop 
Percy (when commenting on this very 
passage), now so cheap and common a 
* Pat. I. Ric. IL. p--3 m. 7,,** Joh de 
Bramptcn Vitriarius Regis infra Turrim Lon- 
don, ac infra omnia alia Castr°ect man’ Re- 
gis. 37 
} Leland, Itis. vol. iv. p 75, speaking 
of Sudeley Castle, says, <* The L. Sudeley 
that builded the castle was a famous man cf 
warrein K. H. V. andK. H. VI. dayes, and 
was an admiral (as I have heard) on the sea ; 
whereupon it was supposed and spoken that 
it was partly builded ex spoliis Gallorum, and 
some speake of a towre in it called Potmare’s 
Towre, that it should be made a hansome of 
‘his. - One thinge was to be noted in this cas- 
tle, that part of the windowes of it were gla- 
sed. with berall.? -See also Leland, Itin. 
vel. Vili. p. 33. 
The Antiguary.—No. XT r. 
‘remarkable passage :— 
(Aug. Tf, 
conveniency, even after it beg: an to be 
used in windows, it was still ‘preserved 
with great care is a precious rarity, as 
‘appears from the Survey of Alnwick Cas-. 
tle, made in 1567, in w ete ‘is this very 
‘ And because, 
throwe extreme winds, the glasse of the 
windowes of this and other my lord’s cas- 
tles and houses herein the countrie, dooth 
decay and waste, yet were good the 
whole leights of everie windowe at the 
departure of his lordshippe from lyeing 
at any of bis said castels and houses, and 
nat ns the time of his lordshippe’s ab- 
nce, or others lyiug in them, were taken 
dea and laide up in safety: and at 
sooche t tyme as other his lordshippe, or 
anie other, should lye at anie of the said 
places, the same might then be sett uppe 
of newe with smale charges to his lord- 
sbippe, wher now the decaye thereof 
shall be verie costlie and chargeable to 
be repayred.” 
From Sit John Cullum’s History of 
Hawksted,* it should seem that so late as 
1615, glass windows were a luxury not 
every where introduced even iute the- 
better kind of farm-houses. And there 
is a passage in one of Mr. Ray’s Itinera- 
ries, which evinces a much later intro- 
duction of them into the better kind of 
mansions in Scotland :—“ In the best 
Scottish houses, even the king’s palaces, 
the windows are not glazed throughout, 
but the upper part only; the lower have 
two wooden shuts or folds, to ellis at 
pleasure, and admit the fresh air.” 
“ The ordinary country houses are ft 
ful cots, built of stone, and covered with 
turves, ‘having in them but one reom, 
maby OF them no chimneys, the windows 
very small holes, and not vlazed. fi 
The history éF painted g olass is not a 
subject for the present paper. It ap- 
pears to have been introduced somewhat 
early in the thirteenth century; and pro- 
bably gave rise to many of those ramifi~ 
cations of the windows so remarkable in 
our eccicsiastica! architecture in its mid- 
dle period: 
he fraternity of the “ Glaziers and 
Painters on Glass,” is reported by Stow 
to have been a society of very ancient 
memory. The trades seem always to 
have gone together, although they were 
not icosporated till the thirteenth year 
EY Oar ere mr 
= Bibl. Topogr. Brit. No. XXXL. p. 
209. 
Joba 
Sc ott’s Select Remains of the learned 
Ray. . Pp. 187, 188. 
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