[41] Recently purchased by the present head of the firm, C. Minton Campbell, Esq., M.P.
[42] Then the principal inn, removed thirty years ago to make room for the new market buildings.
[43] The price (1873) delivered in the Potteries was £2 10s.
[44] A bust of my dear old friend, Mr. S. C. Hall, editor of the Art Journal, has, since this was written, been prepared for me by Mr. Goss, from Gallimore’s modelling. It is a splendid work of Art, and, as a likeness, is perfect.
[45] For the entire extract, containing many interesting particulars, see vol. i., p. [97].
[46] A copy of these indentures is printed in my “Life of Wedgwood,” pages 66–7. They are signed by “Ralph Wood,” “Aaron Wood,” and “Dr. Tho. Wedgwood,” and witnessed by “Sara X Wood, her mark,” and “Jos. Allen.”
[47] The managing man at this time was T. Heath.
[48] Mr. Lakin travelled for orders at this time.
[49] It is said that a John Shrigley in 1765 built the largest hovel of his day, and that it fell to pieces soon after the last brick was laid.
[50] Probably from the manufactory at Cliff Bank, previously worked by D. Bird. Shaw says that those works were had by T. Mayer in 1829, and continues, “We shall just notice here that Mr. T. Mayer has succeeded in a chef d’œuvre of the Art of Pottery, by many considered as the best Specimen of Solid Earthenware hitherto produced. It is an Earthenware Table, of truly elegant workmanship, thirty-two inches diameter, on an elegant pedestal of proportionate dimensions, ornamented in a very chaste style, with subject from National History.”