Topic: The mystic properties of Venetian glass!

[Bernard C]

From Lives, by John Aubrey (1626–97), unpublished, in manuscript mainly in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, collected and transcribed (apparently reasonably accurately) by Oliver Lawson Dick as Aubrey's Brief Lives, 1949, Secker & Warburg, and reproduced in the 2007 Register of Exeter College Association, Oxford:-

In Dr Bolton's Sermons is an Account of the Lady Honywood, who despaired of her Salvation.   Dr Bolton endeavour'd to comfort her:  Said she (holding a Venice-glass in her Hand) I shall as certainly be Dam-ned, as this Glass will be broken:  And at that word, threw it hard on the Ground:  and the Glass remained sound:  which did give her great comfort.   The Glass is yet preserved among the Cimelia of the Family.   This Lady lived to see descended from her (I think) Ninety, which is mentioned by Dr Bolton.

Note that this transcription is accurate apart from the second hyphen, which has been inserted to avoid the word being automatically replaced by this message board as offensive.

Bernard C.