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where there is lodging, man’s meate, and horse meate, an inne of courte,an hall, or an hostle; where nothing is sold but ale and tobacco, agrammar schoole; a red or blew lattice, that they term a free schoole forall commers. The bookes which they studdy, and whose leaves they soof tenturne over, are, for the most part, three of the old translation andthree of the new. Those of the old translation: 1. the tankard;2. the blackjacke; 3. the quart-pot, rib’d or thorondell. Those ofthe new be these: 1. the jugge; 2. the beaker; 3. the double orsingle can, or black pot,”

superseded the small drinking-bowls: they were of Venetianmanufacture, and probably first brought here in the 16th century.Earlier they do not appear to have been used in England; nor to havecome into much fashion till the time of Elizabeth, as we find no mentionof them either in the accounts of the royal banquets, or in those ofCardinal Wolsey . In the Privy Purse Expenses of Henry VIII . thesearticles occur twice; but are spoken of in a manner that throws littlelight on the subject, beyond showing that glass vessels were then inoccasional, though not in general use. The first, in 1529. “ Item,

paied to the gardyner of Beawlie, in reward for bringing glasses w'waters to the king’s grace, vj*.;” and in 1531, “ I tin, paied to a s’vnt ofmy lorde Lisle, in reward for bringing of a glasse w* orange water, vijs. vj d.

The Northumberland Household-Book does not contain a singleentry of drinking-glass. But when Harrison wrote, (1557), vessels ofthis material were to be found in the dwellings of persons of allranks, either of the superior kind imported from Venice, or a more" homelie” sort manufactured here. “ It is a world,” says he, “ tosee in these our daies, wherein gold and siluer most aboundeth, howthat our gentilitie, as lothing those mettals, (because of the plentie), donow general lie choose rather the Venice glasses, both for our wine and

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