Identifier: oldenglishglasse00hart (find matches)
Title: Old English glasses. An account of glass drinking vessels in England, from early times to the end of the eighteenth century. With introductory notices, original documents, etc
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Hartshorne, Albert, b. 1839
Subjects: Glass manufacture Glassware -- Great Britain Wine and wine making -- Great Britain
Publisher: London, New York, E. Arnold
Contributing Library: University of Massachusetts, Boston
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Massachusetts, Boston

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Fig. 344. (One sixth. Fig. 345. (One twelfth.) Fig. 346. (One twelfth.) sort for the purpose in question were, as we have seen, used in England in thelast quarter of the seventeenth century, and they probably soon became, to a certainextent, popular. But their fragility and their unwieldy shape must have forbadetheir use save on special occasions. Mr. Cuming tells us that they were madewith feet and without. He instances an example of the footed ale-yard glass, and,writing in 1872, shows from information he had received that the ale-yard andits divisions into halves and quarters was then to be found in many countryinns.- Such is certainly not the case at the present day. It seems that theyard-glasses and their divisions were footed vessels, generally imperfect as to See Introductory Notices, p. 54. of ike British Archaeological Association, \o\.-KKKyul - On the Ale Yard, or Long Glass, Joumal p. 174.
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55—ENGLISH GLASS. CPiAP. XXIII. GROUP XVI. YARD-GLASSES, HALF-YARD GLASSES. 339 measure and fluctuating as to capacity, but a pair of half-yards in the possessionof Captain Darwin are exact in their height (Fig. 344). Sir Henry Dryden founda rather crooked yard-glass, with a turned wooden knob at the end, replacing aglass foot, or a bulb, in the Wrestlers Inn at Cambridge in 1843 (Fig. 345). Whencomplete the glass was about 4 inches less than a yard. The trick yard-glass arose from the knob at the end of a footless one. Itwas found that on expanding into a bulb the knob or knot, the difficulty ofemptying the vessel was greatly increased, because when this feat was nearlyaccomplished, the air passed down the tube into the bulb, and caused the re-mainder of the liquor to fly in the face of the drinker. It was customary whenGeorge III. w^as king, and when yards of ale were much in vogue, to hang upthese glasses in the common room of inns by coloured ribbons, and to producethem for the

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