Description: Count Street ran north from Barker Gate. Your recent note on 'The Romance of a Street Name' gives me the opportunity of adding a little further information concerning Count Paravicini. There is no doubt that he came to Nottingham about the end of the 17th century and founded, or took over, Glassworks, which were situated somewhere near Carter Gate, or at the bottom of Barker Gate, and a view of them is shown on Thomas Sandby's 'East Prospect of the Town' dated 1741. About fifty years ago there was published a book under the title of 'Through England on a Side Saddle in the Reign of William and Mary.' It was the diary of a lady who travelled about England on horseback and visited Nottingham in 1696. She saw the Glass and Tile Works, and tells how 'There was a man there that spun glass and made several things in glass, birds and beasts with divers colours' which seems to indication the Italian craftsman.' But the first time we learn of Count Paravicinis connection with these glassworks is found in an entry in one of our unpublished records dated 1724, and noted by the late Mr William Stevenson. It refers to 'Mr Paravicini's Glasshouse'; and later in 1754 in the last published volume of the 'Borough Records,' - and aptly mentioned by your correspondent 'Old Timer' - there is an entry referring to property of Mr Nathaniel Owen, 'late Paravicini,' which from its wording seems to refer to Glassworks. The reason for this Italian nobleman coming to Nottingham and carrying on a glass factory has remained somewhat of a mystery, but a possible solution has occurred to me. George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham - who in 1664 inherited the Castle of Nottingham in right of his mother, sole daughter and heiress of the 6th Earl of Rutland - founded in the year 1677 great Glassworks at Lambeth, bringing over from Italy artists and craftsmen from the great glass centres of Venice, Murano and other places. During the years he lived in Italy he may well have met Count Paravicini, a member of a noted Milanese family, and induced him to come over and develop the glass industry in this country. In passing, it is of interest to note that in the Wollaton Manuscripts mention is made of Glassworks and Furnace started by Sir Percival Willoughby in 1615. Count Paravicini died in Nottingham, and we find the record of his burial and his wife's in St Mary's register: 'Lady Berceni Paravicini buried 18th March 1727-28; Count George Paravicini buried 26th March, 1735.' Text extracted from p22 of Scrapbook x 1.