[19] S. Shaw, “Staffordshire Potteries,” p. 119.
[20] S. Shaw, op. cit., 118.
[21] Burton, “English Earthenware,” p. 74.
[22] Burton, “English Earthenware,” p. 74.
[23] A list of those who joined the “Association to defend and avenge King William” in 1696 is preserved at the Record Office. Among 100 names given in Stoke-on-Trent, which included Hanley, Shelton, Longton, &c., occur side by side the names of Joshua Twiford and Robert Astbry. Is it possible that even then they had their pot-banks side by side, as tradition says, on the knoll where Shelton Church now stands?
[24] Wedgwood’s Letters II, 367-70.
[25] Shaw, op. cit., pp. 108-9.
[26] Aikin, “Manchester,” 526.
[27] Shaw, op. cit., p. 121.
[28] Burton, op. cit., p. 86.