The Eagle, of 250 tons and with 24 guns, owned by Messrs. Camplin and Smith of Bristol and Manship and Wilkinson of London, was declared on 13 November 1756 by Captain John Knill. Cf. Arthur Churchill, 'History in Glass', Exhibition Catalogue, 1937, pl. 22, no. 102, Percy Bate, English Table Glass, pl. LXV, no. 245 and the example inscribed 'Success to the Duke of Cornwall, David Jenkins Commander' sold in these Rooms on 23 May 1989, lot 166. See also Damer Powell, Bristol Privateers and Ships of War, p. 205; E. Barrington Haynes, Apollo, March and May, 1940 and John Bacon, 'Circle of Glass Collectors', Paper, no. 50, May, 1944