[84] Pages 270 and 271.
[85] “A few Words on ‘Fairy Pipes,’” Reliquary, vol. iii., pp. 72 to 84.
[86] Pipes of three feet long and more, with barrel bowls, are still imported in small quantities.
[87] “They are called “Fairy Pipes” in this neighbourhood, and the small bowls with broken stem have been occasionally found on my estate at St. James’s.”—H. S.
[88] “Maund” is the Devonshire name for basket, or hamper. In Plymouth it is not unusual to hear of a “maund o’ cloam,” which is only “a basket of pots”—cloam being the Devonshire word for crockery ware.
[89] Mr. Owen has shown that previous to December, 1765, china had been attempted to be made in Bristol. In November of that year, Champion wrote, in reference to some clay from Carolina, “I sent part to Holdship, as you desired, and gave part to a new work just established.... This new work is from a clay and stone discovered in Cornwall, which answers the description of the Chinese,” &c.; and on December 15th, “I have had your clay tried at the works here, which is now given up, as they could not burn the ware clean.” Probably either Cookworthy was connected with these short-lived works, or they were carried on under license from him.
[90] This allusion to the time occupied in the journey from Bristol to Plymouth is very interesting. It was then, it seems, a hundred years ago, a two days’ journey by the “machine” (which was, of course, the coach). Cookworthy intended to set out, it seems, on the Tuesday morning, and hoped to reach Plymouth by the machine some time on the Thursday. On my last journey, in fact while making these notes, I left Bristol at eight o’clock, and arrived at Plymouth at ten minutes after twelve, the journey occupying only four hours and ten minutes! What a contrast between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries this simple fact presents.
[91] “Two Centuries of Ceramic Art in Bristol,” by Hugh Owen, F.S.A.
[92] See the account of the Plymouth china works, p. 329.
[93] This Act I first printed in extenso in the Art-Journal, for 1863, page 214.