Exeter.
That tobacco-pipes were made in Exeter in 1654 is curiously proved by the following case of supposed witchcraft:—“12 August, 1654. One Diana Crosse, a widow, suspected of being a witch, was ordered by the judge of Assize to be committed for trial at the city sessions. Mr. Edward Trible, a tobacco-pipe maker, one of the victims of the witch’s arts, deposed that Mrs. Crosse on one occasion came to his house for fire, which was delivered to her, but for the space of one month afterwards he could not make or work his tobacco-pipes to his satisfaction—they were altogether either over or under burnt. The witch, too, cast her evil eye upon a boy in his employ, and ‘affirmed’ that he should never be well, and thereupon the boy ‘grew into a distracted condition, and was much consumed and pyned away in body.’”