North Devon Pottery and Its Export to America in the 17th Century

by C. Malcolm Watkins

[32] Ibid., p. 256.

[33] Bernard Rackham, Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1950, ed. 2, vol. 1, pp. 10-11.

[34] Llewellyn Jewitt, The Ceramic Art of Great Britain, London, 1883, ed. 2, pp. 206-207.

[35] George Maw, “On a Supposed Deposit of Boulder-Clay in North Devon,” Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 1864, vol. 20, pp. 445-451.

[36] Charbonnier, op. cit. (footnote 31), pp. 255, 259.

[37] “Supplement to the Account of Biddeford,” The Gentlemen’s Magazine, 1755, vol. 25, p. 564.

[38] Watkins, op. cit. (footnote 4), p. 74. However, the “byelaws” of Barnstaple for 1689 indicate that tempering materials were also obtained locally: “Every one that fetcheth sand from the sand ridge, shall pay for each horse yearly 1^d, and for every boat of Crock Sand 1^d., according to the antient custome.” (Joseph B. Gribble, Memorials of Barnstaple, Barnstaple, 1830, p. 360.)

[39] Charbonnier, op. cit. (footnote 31), p. 258.

[40] B. W. Oliver, “The Three Tuns, Barnstaple,” Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature, and Art, Torquay, Devon, 1948, vol. 80, pp. 151-152.

[41] Mildred E. Jenkinson in personal correspondence from Bideford, April 20, 1955.