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 12 s. vm. JUNE is, 1921,1 NOTES AND QUERIES. 485 in my Power to shew him how sensible I was of his Attentions and how much gratified by his Conversation. My reception here has been very nattering but I find myself almost completely de doctored I cannot prevail on them to forget Mf Sherwen, I hope you may succeed in this respect. They treat me however as a physician for I have already had Consultations and proper Fees with three out of four of the Medical Men in the place and the Cases have proved successful and credit- able. Mr Strachan has been my precursor : he returned a fortnight before me with a healthy Countenance, a firm step and the slightest possible Cough. Were I to remain here I should be under the necessity of once more launching my Carriage. I mean however to set out imme- diately for the Isle of Wight and Bath, and shall certainly adhere to my Intentions of living at large till next Spring. In the depth of the Winter you will probably find us in London, and Mr Crawley, Spittle Square, will be able to tell you where. I hope by this Time, you have recovered your spirits. Mrs Sherwen desires me to present her best Compts to you and has also suggested the propriety of my adding a Reason why I particularly feel that I carried my Resentment to H. . ., too far. I was not informed till I was on the point of leaving Corby that there hcve been symptoms of mental derangement in his Family. If you should receive this Letter enclosed in a parcel by sea, there will be one Copy of my Treatise on the Scurvy for yourself, one for Mr Jones, Doctor Duncan, Mr Middleton, Mr Beech, and one for the Medical Society to Doctor Duncan also I shall send the Manu- script on the bilious Diseases of Bengal, but if you receive this by the post you are to conclude that the Confusion necessarily attending the movement of furniture and the complete Dis- order of my Library has prevented me from fulfilling my Intentions. I am Dear Sir yours very sincerely JNO SHERWEN. I believe I promised you a Quotation for your Ophthalmic Thesis. I have not had a moments Time to look into a classical Book but if you have any Remedy to propose uncommonly efficacious acting cito tuto et jucunde look into Horace's Iter ad Brundusium there you will find postea Lux oritur. . . something or other this will do if not too empirical and boasting. In the same pleasant poem I remember he speaks of anointing his Eyes with black Ointment and was not this the Unguentum Tutia A reference to Celsus will inform if ye Tuty was in use for that purpose in hfs Days. I strongly suspect it was and if so it will give you a good classical anecdote to embellish your Thesis. Remember I expect something essentially useful from an old practitioner. [Endorsed] Henry Shorting Esq No 15 Banks Lodgings College Street, Edinburgh. EBNEST H. H. SHORTING. Broseley, Shropshire. GLASS-PAINTERS OF YORK. (See ante, pp. 127, 323, 364, 406, 442.) VI. THE PRESTON FAMILY. JOHN DE PRESTON. Although his name does not appear in the Roll of Freemen of York, nor does he mention any occupation in his will, it is presumed he was a pre- decessor of Will de Preston, ouerour, free 1351 ; John de Preston, glasenwreght, free 1361 ; and Robert Preston, glasier, free 1465, died 1503. Wife, Joan ; daughter, Agnes. Although he is described as "of York " and he bequeathed a sum of money for the poor of St. Leonard's Hospital there, he evidently possessed a farm at New- ton near Patrick Brompton, for he bequeathed all his " goods movable and immovable in the village of Newton near Patrick Brompton ! to Joan my wife and Agnes my daughter." He made his will (Reg. Test. D. and C. i Ebor. 1, 21) "on Tuesday next before the S to be buried in St. Michael-le-Belfrey church- jyard. Will proved July 29, 1337. Execu- ! tors, his wife and two more, not glass- ! painters. Will de Preston, ouerour. Free, 1351. Probably a nephew of the above John de Preston. John de Preston, glasenwreght.* Free 1361. Probably brother of the above Will de Preston. In 1378 he was a member of the " twenty-four," i.e., a councillor of the city, and was present at a meeting to decide about the upkeep of two of the city's ships, the Peter and the Marie (' York Memo. Book,' ed. by Dr. Maud Sellars, Surtees Soc. vol. i., p. 32). A John Preston, probably his son, was Chamberlain in 1444 (Skaife MS. in York Public Library). Robertus Preston, glasier. The most glass-painters are termed " verrours " from 1313 j until 1360, " glasen wrights " from 1361 to 1385, and from 1391 onwards " glasyers." The earliest instance of the use of the term " glass-painter '* which the writer has come across occurs in the list of aliens in London in 1616 (S.P.O., Domestic, 1616, vol. xcviii.). The only example in the i York Roll is 1762 " William Peckitt glass-painter i and stainer by order, gratis." The ' N.E.D.' does not give an example of " glasyer " as a synonym, for "glass -painter," and the earliest example of its use as applied to " one whose trade it is to glaze windows " is in 1408, whilst the earliest example of the term " glass-painter " is dated 1762.
 * Feast of St. Margaret the Virgin," desiring
 * In the York Freemen's Roll (Surtees Soc.)