[69] Burton, “History and Description of English Porcelain.”
[70] Shaw, op. cit., 155.
[71] Burton, “English Earthenware,” p. 111.
[72] Burton, op. cit., p. 114-5.
[73] L. Jewitt, “The Wedgwoods,” pp. 112-7.
[74] “Earnest money” was the lump sum paid to a workman on his entering into his servitude.
[75] An example of truck wages.
[76] It is recorded of the Rev. J. Middleton, Master Potter and Curate of Hanley, c. 1750, that he refused to hire men by the year, deeming it slavery. It was not till 1866 that the Trade Unions put an end to the annual hiring of grown men by a year’s binding agreement.
[77] Burton, “English Earthenware,” p. 119.
[78] Shaw, op. cit., p. 157.