36 THE WEDGWOODS. 



The ordinary ale-pots, the pint-jugs, were, like the grey- 

 beards, principally at first imported, but were afterwards 

 undoubtedly made in Staffordshire, and other places in this 

 kingdom. They were usually ornamented with incised lines, 

 scratched into the soft clay with a sharp point, in form of 

 scrolls, flowers, &c., and then washed in with blue. Not 

 unfrequently a pattern was impressed from a mould on the 

 front, somewhat in the same manner as those on the grey- 

 beards, but consisting usually of a flower or of initials. One 

 of these ale-pots, from an example in my own collection, is 



here engraved. In the reign of Elizabeth these " stone pots " 

 were proposed to be made in England, as is shown by the 

 following curious document preserved in the Lansdowne 

 Manuscripts : 



"The sewte of William Simpson, merchaunte Whereas one 

 Garnet Tynes, a straunger livinge in Aeon, in the parte beyond the 

 seas, being none of her ma ties subjecte, doth "buy uppe alle the pottes 

 made at Culloin, called Drinking stone pottes, and he onelie trans- 

 porteth them into this realm of England, and selleth them : It may 

 please your ma tie to graunt unto the said Simpson full power and 

 onelie license to provyde transport and bring into this realm the 

 same or such like drinking pottes ; and the said Simpson will putt 

 in good suretie that it shall not be prejudiciall to anie of your ma ties 



