[1198] In Statutis Cluniacensibus, cap. 18.
[1199] See Porner’s Anleitung zur Farbekunst. Leipzig, 1785, 8vo, p. 16.
[1200] Page 113.
[1201] Monconys mentions in his Travels, p. 408, Dr. Keiffer, a son-in-law of Drebbel, who was a good chemist.
[1202] In Borrichii Dissertat. ii. p. 104: Color Kufflerianus.
[1203] Rabelais, xi. 22. Menage, Diction. Etymol. i. p. 682.
[1204] Francheville, in Dissertat. sur l’Art de la Teinture des Anciens et Modernes, in Histoire de l’Académ. de Berlin, 1767, p. 67. In this dissertation, however, there is neither certainty nor proof.
[1205] Suite de Teinturier parfait. Paris, 1716.
[1206] Anderson’s History of Commerce.
[1207] Cary’s Bemerkungen über Grossbritanniens Handel; übersetzt von Wichmann. Leipzig, 1788, i. p. 372. Boyle remarks in his Experimenta de Coloribus, Coloniæ, 1680, 4to, that a bright scarlet colour was never produced except when tin vessels were used. It appears, therefore, that he had observed the good effects of a solution of tin.