[4] “Christian’s china body (January, 1769). To 100 parts rock: flint, 24 parts; best flint glass, 6 parts; small glass, 6 parts; crown glass, 6 parts. To every 20 lbs. of the above put 1 lb. of salts. Glaze—4 china body (foreign): 16 flint glass; 3 white lead; 12 oz. of pearl ashes.”
[5] Many of the early productions of these works have a peculiar green tinge about them. This was the effect of the copper, which for some time tainted the manufactory.
[6] For an account of the Roman pot-works at Wilderspool, near this place, see vol. i. p. [51].
[7] This deed will be found printed in extenso on page 63.
[8] See the “Life of William Hutton and the History of the Hutton Family,” edited by Llewellynn Jewitt, 1872, p. 13.
[9] It may be well to note that my history of the Derby China Works appeared in January, 1862, and Mr. Chaffers’ first edition of his book was published in 1863; my history of these works, and information which I supplied him, being mainly the foundation of his notice.
[10] For all the information connected with this purchase and the removal of the Chelsea moulds, &c., to Derby (which it would be needless to repeat here) see my account of the Chelsea China Works in the first volume of this book. (Vol. 1. p. [176], et seq.)
[11] This painter is also, besides being written Boreman, sometimes entered as Bowerman, and as Bowman, and is undoubtedly the same as Mr. Marryat, in his “History of Porcelain,” erroneously calls Beaumont. He was afterwards employed at Derby.
[12] Mottoes.
[13] Shipped for Derby, and therefore paid for from there.