io Josiah Wedgwood CHAP. 



farming with potmaking. His son, of the same name, 

 resided at the "Bed Lyon," and was an innkeeper as 

 well as a potter, though whence the title of doctor was 

 derived, we do not know. 



As the profits of potters were then very small, so 

 were the wages of their workmen. Wedgwood's grand- 

 father had, in 1*715, three workmen, to whom he paid 

 four shillings a week, and three others to whom he paid 

 six shillings a week. 



Apprentices were still more poorly paid. Aaron 

 Wood was apprenticed to Dr. Thomas Wedgwood in 

 1731. During the first three years of his apprentice- 

 ship he was paid one shilling weekly. During the 

 next three years he was paid one shilling and sixpence 

 weekly ; and in the last and seventh year he was paid 

 four shillings weekly. Besides his wages, Aaron Wood 

 had annually a pair of new shoes. When Aaron's 

 apprenticeship expired, he was engaged for five years as 

 a journeyman at five shillings a week. 



Dr. Thomas Wedgwood junior, the innkeeper, did 

 something to improve the manufacture of pottery. 

 Besides manufacturing imitation agates, marbles, and 

 coffee and tea pots, he eventually succeeded in pro- 

 ducing a pure white stoneware. His workmen also 

 made baking dishes, milkpans, pots, jugs, porringers, 

 pitchers, and other sorts of crockery. 



The chief hindrance to the expansion of the trade of 

 Burslem and the neighbourhood was the horrible state 

 of the roads and byways. At the beginning of last 



