Howcraft, Thomas, at ‘The Looking-Glass’, Cornhill, and ‘The India Cabinet’, Long Acre, London, joiner, cm and glass seller (1711). In partnership with Richard Robinson, supplied looking-glasses to the 1st Earl of Nottingham at Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland in 1711. One of them cost £82 1s 6d which included patterned and scalloped glass borders and a cut coat of arms in the shaped top panel. Earlier in 1711 Thomas Howcraft, joiner, of St Martin-in-the-Fields parish was declared bankrupt, London Gazette, July, and 11 and 14 August 1711. Overmantel recorded in the V&A archives. [Wills, Looking-Glasses, p. 21; Pearl Finch, History of Burley-on-the-Hill; C. Life, 15 February 1930; Antique Collector, November-December 1947; Harris, Old English Furniture, p. 23]