. Glass. %. GERMAN MEDIEVAL GLASS the furnace of one of these local makers of verve defougtre who already claimed the privileges of early in the reign of Charles vi. we find an entryof a payment pour don fait par hii aux voirriers, prdsde la forest de Chevreuse, oil le roy estait alez veoirfaire les voirres This was at the beginning of thefifteenth century; later on, as we shall see, both KingRen^ and Louis xi. were patrons of the glass-makers;and yet it is doubtful if we have in our collections anyexamples of French glass which can be attributed to asearly a period as the reign
. Glass. %. GERMAN MEDIEVAL GLASS the furnace of one of these local makers of verve defougtre who already claimed the privileges of early in the reign of Charles vi. we find an entryof a payment pour don fait par hii aux voirriers, prdsde la forest de Chevreuse, oil le roy estait alez veoirfaire les voirres This was at the beginning of thefifteenth century; later on, as we shall see, both KingRen^ and Louis xi. were patrons of the glass-makers;and yet it is doubtful if we have in our collections anyexamples of French glass which can be attributed to asearly a period as the reign even of the latter king. Of glass made in Germany before, say, the end of thefifteenth century, we know even less than of the con-temporary production in France. Theophilus, it is true,tells us of the manufacture of sheets of glass fromcylindrical manchons, and this was probably until theseventeenth century a specially German process; hedescribes, too, the manufacture of blown glass of simpleforms. But from
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