Horspath.
Tobacco pipes were made here in the latter end of the seventeenth century.
Shotover.
At Shotover, in the parish of Headington, tobacco-pipes were made prior to 1677, at which time the “place was deserted.”
CHAPTER XIII.
York—Place’s Ware—Hirstwood’s China—Layerthorpe—Osmotherley—Hull—Belle Vue Pottery—Stepney Lane Pottery—Leeds—Hartley, Greens, & Co.—Britton and Sons—Leathley Lane Pottery—Castleford Pottery—Eagle Pottery—Pontefract—Ferrybridge—Knottingley—Ralph Wedgwood—Swinton Pottery—Rockingham Ware—Cadogan Pots—Rockingham China—Brameld & Co.—Dale’s Patent—Baguley’s Productions—Mexborough—Rock Pottery—Mexborough Pottery—Mexborough Old Pottery—Rawmarsh—Rotherham—North Field Pottery—Holmes’s Pottery—Don Pottery—Denaby—Kilnhurst—Wath-upon-Dearne—Newhill Pottery—Wakefield—Potovens—Yearsley—Wortley—Healey—Colsterdale.
York.
“Place’s Ware.”—Francis Place, who may be looked upon as one of the pioneers of modern pottery, commenced the manufacture of what, at the time, was considered “equal to true china ware,” about 1665. But little, however, is known either of the manufactory, or of the ware he produced. Francis Place was, according to Walpole, a younger son of Mr. Rowland Place, of Dimsdale, in the county of Durham, and was placed as clerk to an attorney in London until 1665. Walpole’s notice of him runs thus:
“Mr. Francis Place, a gentleman of Yorkshire, had a turn to most of the beautiful arts. He painted, designed, and etched. Mr. Scots of Crown Court, Westminster, had a picture of gooseberries painted in oil on a black ground (a common method with him, as Mr. Scots was told by Mrs. Wyndham, Place’s daughter, who was living in 1764), and a jug of his Earthenware. Mr. Place was placed as clerk to an attorney in London, where he continued till 1665, in which year going into a shop the officers came to shut up the house, on its having the Plague in it. This occasioned his leaving London, and gave him an opportunity of quitting a profession that was contrary to his inclination, and of following the roving life he loved and the arts for which he had talents. Ralph Thoresby often mentions Mr. Place with great encomiums and specifies various presents that he made to his Museum. He tells us too that Mr. Place discovered an earth for, and a method of making Porcelain, which he put in practice at the Manor house at York, of which manufacture he gave Thoresby a fine Mug. His pottery cost him much money; he attempted it solely from a turn for experiments, but one Clifton took the hint from him, and made a fortune by it.”
Thoresby, in his “Ducatus Leodiensis” (1714), mentions Place and his wares several times. The principal notice, when speaking of the vein of white clay in the hundred of Wortley, is as follows:—