We may, however, probably identify the Antwerp merchant, Jean Carré, with the ‘John Carry, M^r of y^e Glashouse,’ who was buried at Alford, in Surrey, in 1572. Footnote 234: The history of their wanderings has been pieced together chiefly through the researches of Mr. Glazebrook (see his privately printed _Collections for the Genealogy of the noble families of De Hennezel, etc._, 1877); of Mr. Hallen in the _Scottish Antiquary_, 1893; and of Mr. Holmes in the _Antiquary_, 1894. Footnote 235: It is just possible, remembering the many exchanges of presents between Henry and Francis, that a part at least of this collection may have had some connection with the ‘_quatre cens beaux verres de Venise gentillisez des plus jolies gayetez que verriers sçauroient inventer_,’ which were in 1532 in the possession of Robertez, treasurer to the French king (Nesbitt, _South Kensington Catalogue_, p. clix). Footnote 236: For example, in an abortive act brought into the House in 1585, but not passed. Quoted by Mr. Hartshorne, p. 159. Footnote 237: A goblet of similar character, with the date 1584, was not long since smashed to pieces while on view at a saleroom. Like the goblet mentioned in the text, this glass was attributed to Verzelini. Footnote 238: As to the other specimens of Elizabethan glass mentioned by Mr. Hartshorne—the chalice-like cup belonging to Mr. Woodruff and the tazza now at Windsor—they have doubtless been long in England, but there is nothing to prove their English make. They are both essentially of forms borrowed from the goldsmith, and like the glass dish in the Williams Library at Gordon Square, they may well have come from Henry VIII.’s collection. Footnote 239: Although the _Metallum Martis or Iron made from Pitt-coale_ was not printed till 1665, Dudley had experimented with coal some time before 1619. As early as 1612, in a treatise entitled _Metallica_, Simon Sturtevant, who had already taken out a patent for making iron with pit-coal, states that ‘very lately’ green glass for windows, of good quality, had been melted with that material at Winchester House, Southwark. Footnote 240: The most important of these documents are given in full in the Appendix to Mr. Hartshorne’s _English Glasses_. Footnote 241: On the other hand, Howell in a letter dated March 18, 1618, quoted in part below, speaks of Mansell as working his patent with ‘My Lord of Pembroke and divers others of the prime Lords of the Court.’ He had, it would seem, replaced the early adventurers and schemers by men of wealth and of influence at court. Footnote 242: