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Parker, watchmaker, of Seel Street, and soon afterwards 

 became engaged in litigation. Having got together a good 

 business, his fellow-townsmen became jealous of his success, 

 and the corporation attempted to remove him as not being 

 a freeman of Liverpool, and therefore having no right to 

 keep a shop within its boundaries. Disregarding the order 

 of removal, the corporation commenced an action against 

 him, which he successfully defended, and showed that the 

 authorities possessed no power of ejection. This decision 

 was one of great importance to the 'trading community, and 

 opened the door to numberless people to commence business 

 in the town. 



Mr. John Sadler was, according to Mr. Mayer, the first 

 person who applied the art of printing to the ornamentation 

 of pottery, and the story of his discovery is thus told: Sadler 

 had been in the habit of giving waste and spoiled impressions 

 from, his engraved plates to little children, and these they 

 frequently stuck upon pieces of broken pot from the pot- 

 works at Shaw's Brow, for their own amusement and for 

 building dolls' houses with. This circumstance gave him 

 the idea of ornamenting pottery with printed pictures, and, 

 keeping the idea secret, he experimentalised until he had 

 nearly succeeded, when he mentioned the circumstance to 

 Guy Green, who had then recently succeeded Mr. Adam 

 Sadler iu his business. Guy Green was a poor boy, who 

 spent what halfpence he could get in buying ballads at 

 Adam Sadler's shop, who, taking a fancy to the boy, who 

 was intelligent beyond his age or his companions, took him 

 into his service and encouraged him in all that was honour- 

 able. John Sadler having, as I have said, mentioned his 

 discovery to Guy Green, the two " laid their heads together/' 

 conducted joint experiments, and having ultimately suc- 

 ceeded, at length entered into partnership. This done, they 

 determined to apply to the king for a patent ; which, how- 

 ever, under the advice of friends, was not done. 



The art was first of all turned to good account in the 

 decoration of tiles " Dutch tiles," as they are usually called; 



