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Updated: June 1, 2025
Philip. Stringer Thomas, confectioner, St. St. Skone William, grocer, St. Paul. Smith John, pewterer, St. Michael. Slocombe John, glazier, St. James. Sayce Thomas, carpenter, St. Paul. Smith Thomas, shopkeeper, Temple. Stephens James, carpenter, St. Augustine. Stokes John, joiner, St. Paul. Stretton William, cooper, St. Nicholas. Sweet Thomas, potter, St. Philip. Sims James, glass-maker, Nailsea.
We proceeded rapidly ahead, and at sundown came to anchor before the Hysopus, where we landed some passengers who lived there. 4th, Saturday. We went ashore early, and further inland to the village. We found Gerrit the glass-maker there, with his sister. He it was who desired to come up here in company with us, and he was now happy to see us.
They erected furnaces and works in the Forest of Dean; but, though Cromwell and his officers could fight and win battles, they could not smelt and forge iron with pit-coal. They brought one Dagney, an Italian glass-maker, from Bristol, to erect a new furnace for them, provided with sundry pots of glass-house clay; but no success attended their efforts.
The glass-maker sat in a sort of backless chair which had long, flat, metal-covered arms at either side, and as he worked he rolled the rod with its plastic material back and forth along one of these iron arms to shape it.
Whether the father of Palissy was a glass-maker or not for nothing is quite certain about the boy's early years Bernard must of course have had many companions among the children of the forest workers, and as he went through the world with his eyes always open, he soon learnt a great deal of all that had to be done in order to turn out the bits of glass that blazed like jewels when the sun shone through them.
Later the Phoenicians improved the art and afterward, as you have seen, the Greeks and Romans took it up. There is a strange tale of how, during the reign of Tiberius, a glass-maker discovered how to make a kind of glass which would not break. It was a sort of malleable glass." "Oh, tell us about it, please, Uncle Bob." "Certainly, if you would like to hear.
For you know, señor, that in those days workmen were banded together in guilds, and kept the mysteries of their trade to themselves. The precious secret was handed down from father to son. So it was with my great-great-great-great-great-grandfather." Giusippe drew himself up. "Oh, it was a grand thing to be a glass-maker in those days, señor!" continued the boy, his eyes glowing.
The glass-maker informed us that Willem, the son of our old people, was going to follow the sea, and had left for Barbados; that Evert Duyckert, our late mate on our voyage out, who had gone as captain of a ketch to Barbados and Jamaica, had arrived; that it was his ship we had seen coming in, when we were leaving the city, and that perhaps he would go with her to Holland.
Of course every one thought the glass was broken, and that is precisely what the glass-maker wanted them to think. He picked it up, smoothed out with his hammer the dent made in its side, and passed it once more expecting to receive praise for his wonderful deed. Tiberius eyed him silently. Then he asked; 'Does any one else know how to make glass like this? "'No one, answered the glass-maker.
I will, but I take no responsibility before the master if there is a disturbance. The men are in a bad humour and the weather is hot." "I will be responsible to my father," said Giovanni. "Very well," repeated the old man. "You are a glass-maker yourself, like the rest of us. You know how we look upon foreigners who steal their knowledge of our art."
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