[34] Edwards.
[35] Vol. iii. p. 63.
[36] Page 182.
[37] Lansdowne MSS., 108, fol. 60.
[38] Probably written about ten years before printed.
[39] Page 98, ante.
[40] Not 1693, as stated by Chaffers, who has evidently not understood that the date given by Houghton is “old style.”
[41] Aubrey, in his “MS. Natural History of Wiltshire,” had also, a few years previously, thus spoken: “In Vemknoll, adjoining the lands of Easton Pierse, neer the brooke and in it, I bored clay as blew as ultra marine, and incomparably fine, without anything of sand, &c., which perhaps might be proper for Mr. Dwight for his making of porcilaine. It is also in other place, hereabout, but ’tis rare.”
[42] I perceive that Mr. Chaffers, in the 1870 edition of his work, says: “the discovery of the two patents granted to John Dwight ... now published for the first time, in treating on this matter,” &c.; but here he is in error. In 1863 Mr. Woodcraft printed abridgments of these very patents, and to these abridgments Mr. Chaffers is indebted for the knowledge he possessed of them. In 1864 I, too, gave notices of these patents, four years before the date of his publication.
[43] November.