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1703 Henry BERRYMAN of KELVEDON, tobacco-pipe maker.
1697 (31 May) Henry AUSTIN of Barking, Essex, Tobacco-
pipe maker (his brother, Thomas Austin, was also a
tobacco-pipe maker of Tenter Alley in Criplegate, Lon-
don).
1701 Matthew DAY of Newport, Essex, bequeathed to his son
Isaac, 'his Tobacco-engine and press, with all utensils be-
longing thereto' (this might not have been a tobacco-pipe
press, of course, but it seems likely that it was).
There are other references to Essex Tobacconists (Brian
TAYLOR of Colchester and Stephen FRYER of Romford) but
there was no evidence at all from the wills that they were pipe-
makers.
In the neighbouring County of Hertfordshire, we have:
1697 (9 May) George PORTER of Hoddesdon tobacco-pipe
maker.
An early reference to tobacco-smuggling is concealed in the
quaintly-worded sheriff's account of 'farm of custom' on ". . . .
nicotian exotic called Tobaccoe.": this is dated 1636.
Mr. Gant of Colchester has brought to my notice a pipe-stem
marked PEPPER MALDON: it seems likely that PEPPER was
a hitherto unrecorded Essex pipe-maker, of unknown date.
Any other hitherto unrecorded names or initials of Essex or
other East Anglian tobacco-pipe makers will be welcomed by the
writer of this note.
(Mr. Harley's address is Street House, Stoke by Nayland, Colchester.—
Editor.)