THE EARLY POTTERIES OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 



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correctly appropriated to the reign of Elizabeth, through 

 examples being known bearing makers' names, who are 



proved to have lived in that reign. The next, here shown, is 

 of the time of James I. or Charles 

 I., in which reigns there appears to 

 have been a considerable diversity 

 of form, as here shown from engrav- 

 ings of the 'period; the dates being, Fig. 1, 1630; Fig. 2, 

 1632 ; Fig. 3, 1640 ; Fig. 4, 1642. The 

 latter, it will be seen, is of the same 

 shape as those of the preceding reign, 

 and was in general use for a long 

 period. 



The next examples show the prevail- 

 ing shapes in the time of the Common- 

 wealth, and the reign of Charles II. , the 

 five smaller engravings being selected 

 from traders' tokens of the period, of the following dates : 



Fig. 1, 1650; Fig. 2,1666; Fig. 3, 1668; Fig. 4, 1668; 

 and Fig. 5, 1669. 



Pipes of an elongated form, such as next shown, are 

 usually ascribed to the time of William III., and, being 

 found more plentifully in those localities where his Dutch 



