Topic: Identify the 37 glassworks existing in 1696 in England and Wales

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Kimmeridge

Crucibles made of fine textured white clay which the author says brings to mind the white pipe-clays of the local Dorset, Bagshot, Beds.

chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://historicengland.org.uk/research/results/reports/2977/NOTEONTHEPETROLOGYOFSOME17THCENTURYCRUCIBLESFROMKIMMERIDGEDORSET

Source: Note on the Petrology of some 17th century Crucibles from Kimmeridge Dorset, D.F.Williams PH.D., F. S. A. (Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton'.

I hope the link to the author's paper works - I couldn't find any other way of doing it.


A little more information here on a Clavells Glasshouse in Kimmeridge:
https://unpathd.ads.ac.uk/resource/d7468acc56ce01e657a52bcd5e6741591ab57d35e52c7c19dfcd3a557891c131

From a small snippet of information I saw but couldn't access, Robert Mansell might have been involved here?


More:
It seems glass was produced there with an agreement from Mansell? Furnace built by Abraham Bigo and Sir William Clavell
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00665983.1987.11021206

Could this have been a link with Philip Foote?  Clay from Purbeck?

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Thank you for the reply. I think that the pipeclay licence granted to Foote is just being used as an example of a patent being enforced despite the Statute of Monopolies. However, Foote's monopoly was voided by the Middlesex Commissioners but not before a similar patent (at greater rent) had been granted to his assistant John Leigh.

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'havde heard that Samuel Sherman havinge occacion to use some Clay for other purposes and beinge Requested by Sir Robert Mansfield knight
to helpe him to a certaine quantitie of Clay to bee Imployed in his glashouse'

Presume that Mansfield is Mansell...

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I don't know but there is this information re 'Sir Robert Mansfield' who apparently had a patent granted for making glass - so possibly the same person as 'Sir Robert Mansell'?

See page 431 - the source seems to list patents up to 1689 and was printed in 1700 so could be a correct version of his name?

Source- An Exact Abridgement of all the Statutes in Force and Use from the beginning of the Magna Charta:

https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/An_Exact_Abridgment_of_all_the_Statutes/0S5XkLoYiXsC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=sir+robert+mansfield+knight+glass&pg=PA431&printsec=frontcover

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see also this
Source: Glassmaking in England, Harry J Powell

See under Chapter VII where the name is referred to as "Mansfield" then in brackets after is typed (Mansell)


https://archive.org/stream/dli.bengal.10689.10443/10689.10443_djvu.txt

This indicates that yes Mansfield and Mansell are the same person.