Hour-glasses were often very elegantly formed, and of rich materials. Shaw, in his _Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages_, has given an engraving of one in the cabinet of M. Debruge at Paris. It is richly enamelled, and set with jewels. In the churchwardens' accounts of Lambeth Church are two entries respecting the hour-glass: the first is in 1579, when 1s. 4d. was "payd to Yorke for the frame in which the _hower_ standeth;" and the second in 1615, when 6s. 8d. was "payd for an iron for the _hour-glasse_." In an inventory of the goods and implements belonging to the church of All Saints, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, taken about 1632, mention is made of "one _whole_ hour-glasse," and of "one _halfe_ hour-glasse." (See Brand's _Newcastle_, vol. i. p. 370.). Fosbroke says, "Preaching by the _hour-glass_ was put an end to by the Puritans" (_Ency. of Antiq._, vol. i. pp. 273. 307.). But the account given by a correspondent of the _Gentleman's Magazine_ (1804, p. 201.) is probably more correct: "Hour-glasses, in the puritanical days of Cromwell, were made use of by the preachers; who, on first getting into the pulpit, and naming the text, turned up the glass; and if the sermon did not hold till the glass was out, it was said by the congregation that the preacher was lazy: and if he continued to preach much longer, they would yawn and stretch, and by these signs signify to the preacher that they began to be weary of his discourse, and wanted to be dismissed." Butler speaks of "gifted brethren preaching by a carnal _hour-glass_" (_Hudibras_, Part I., canto III., v. 1061.). And in the frontispiece of Dr. Young's book, entitled _England's Shame, or a Relation of the Life and Death of Hugh Peters_, London, 1663, Peters is represented preaching, and holding an _hour-glass_ in his left hand, in the act of saying: "I know you are good fellows, so let's have another _glass_." The same words, or something very similar, are attributed to the Nonconformist minister, Daniel Burgess. Mr. Maidment, in a note to "The New Litany," printed in his _Third Book of Scottish Pasquils_ (Edin., 1828, p. 49.), also gives the following version of the same: