What was the glamour that made men give their all--house, wealth, lands, and even life itself--to bolster the falling fortunes of an unworthy line and restore it to the throne from which it had been twice driven by an outraged people? But we are digressing. There is, in any case, no doubt as to the glamour which surrounds the Jacobite glasses in the eyes of the collector of to-day. The greater part of these glasses were used in one or other of the various clubs or societies which sprang up for the purpose of propagating Jacobite principles and furthering the Jacobite cause--which meant, in brief, plotting for the downfall of the House of Hanover, and in a hard-drinking age it was clear that their consultations could not have been carried on without a considerable consumption of strong liquors, and a consequent adequate supply of glasses, the majority of which were probably engraved in some way or another distinctive of the occasion. The most famous of such clubs was the Cycle Club, founded in 1710 by Sir Watkin Wynn, [Illustration: FIG. 18.--JACOBITE GOBLETS. (From the Rees Price Collection, by permission of the Connoisseur.)] and one of the most interesting of commemorative glasses refers to him: “Let no deceipt within your glass be found, But glorious Watkin’s health go briskly round.” The motto of the Cycle Club appears to have been the Latin “Fiat” (“May it happen”), and this word is generally found engraved on Jacobite glasses, which are, in consequence, often referred to as “Fiat” glasses. A “Fiat” glass is shown in Fig. 21, and other excellent specimens of Jacobite glasses in Fig. 19. Another motto is “_Redeat_.” The best of the Jacobite glasses bear the portrait of “Bonnie Prince Charlie” on the bowl, encircled by a wreath of laurel, flanked on each side by Scotland’s emblematic thistle. Others have two roses supporting the laurels. Sometimes there is the Stuart rose, with two buds, a reference, perhaps, to James II. and his two sons. The design, too, not unfrequently includes an oak leaf, a reference to Charles II.’s escape from the Roundheads, after the battle of Worcester, by taking refuge in an oak, while “Far below the Roundhead rode And humm’d a surly hymn.” Some also are engraved, in addition, with a star--the symbol of a hope never realised by the hapless Stuart line. Most of these emblems may be found in the two specimens shown in Fig. 19. I have sometimes found the portrait of the Pretender with oak leaves, thistle, and rose, in place of the usual “Fiat,” and the motto “_Audentior Ibo_.”