Chapters in the History of the Midland Glass Industry. I. The Early History of Glass-making in the Stourbridge District

JSGT 1931 V15 T219-T227

Within the last few years research among North Staffordshire parish registers has proved the existence of an early glass-house at Eccleshall, started by the families of Tyttery and Tyzack. The foreigners (perhaps after their cool reception by the inhabitants and commons of Warwickshire ) set up works in the extensive woodlands in that district. Peregrine Henzey was baptised at Eccleshall in 1586. In February 1600 Stephen Botting “of the glass-house, glass-maker,” was married, and two years later James Leggeeye, Frenchman, glassmaker, was married to one Judith Tyzacke of the same place. In the same year, Edward Henzey (of Wisborough, Sussex) married Sara Tetrye of Eccleshall (undoubtedly a form of Tyttery): in the next year, George Henzey, glass-maker, died. So here in Eccleshall we find quite a flourishing little glass colony, the existence of which had been forgotten.

D. N. Sandilands