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The best for shape and colour (as curiously sized) are made at Amesbury in this Coun∣ty. They may be called Chimneys portable in pockets, the one end being the Harth, the other the Tunnell thereof. Indeed at the first bringing over of Tobacco, Pipes
were made of silver and other metalls; which, though free from breaking, were found inconvenient, as soon fouled, and hardly clensed.
These Clay-pipes are burnt in a furnace, for some fifteen hours, on the self-same token, that if taken out half an hour before that time, they are found little altered from the condition wherein they were when first put in. It seems all that time the fire is a working it self to the height, and doth its work very soon, when attain'd to perfection. Gauntlet-pipes, which have that mark on their heel, are the best; and here∣on a Story doth depend.
One of that trade observing such Pipes most salable, set the Gauntlet on those of his own making, though inferior in goodness to the other. Now the workman, who first gave the Gauntlet, sued the other upon the Statute, which makes it penal for any to set anothers Mark on any Merchantable Commodities. The Defendant being like∣ly to be cast, (as whose Counsell could plead little in his behalf,) craved leave to speak a word for himself, which was granted. He denied that he ever set another man's mark: for the Thumb of his Gauntlet stands one way, mine another, and the same hand given dexter or sinister in Heraldry, is a sufficient difference. Hereby he escaped, though surely such, who bought his Pipes, never took notice of that Criticisme, or consulted which way the Thumb of his Gauntlet respected.