At Cowance, Cornwall, a room was locked for a hundred years because a spirit was imprisoned inside.

At Clowance there was formerly a room which had remained locked for a hundred years, in consequence of a spirit having been imprisoned within its walls. About a century ago the old house was destroyed by fire and the haunted room broken into. It was found to contain a quantity of old–fashioned glassware which, apparently not being to the taste of one of the former owners, had been put aside and locked up in this room with the spirit.

Perhaps the glassware was there as for the imprisoned spirit, especially if it had liked its spirits when alive, either to compensate it for being locked up, or to taunt it with empty glasses.