148 THE WEDGWOODS. 



and the following highly-interesting documents relating to 

 them, which are in the possession of Mr. Mayer, and to 

 whom the antiquarian world is indebted for first making 

 them public, will be read with. interest : 



" I, John Sadler, of Liverpoole, in the county of Lancaster, 

 printer, and Gny Green, of Liverpoole, aforesaid, printer, severally 

 maketh oath that on Tuesday, the 27th day of July instant, they, 

 these deponents, without the aid or assistance of any other person 

 or persons, did within the space of six hours, to wit, between the 

 hours of nine in the morning and three in the afternoon of the same 

 day, print upwards of twelve hundred Earthenware tiles of different 

 patterns, at Liverpoole aforesaid, and which, as these deponents 

 have heard and believe, were more in number and better and neater 

 than one hundred skilful pot-painters could have painted in the like 

 space of time, in the common and usual way of painting with a 

 pencil ; and these deponents say that they have been upwards of 

 seven years in finding out the method of printing tiles, and in 

 making tryals and experiments for that purpose, which they have 

 now through great pains and expence brought to perfection. 



" JOHN SADLER, 

 GREEN. 



" Taken and sworn at Liverpoole, in the county of Lancaster, 

 the second day of August, one thousand seven hundred and fifty- 

 six, before William Statham, a Master Extraordinary in Chancery." 



""We, Alderman Thomas Shaw and Samuel Gilbody, both of 

 Liverpoole, in the county of Lancaster, clay potters, whose names 

 are hereunto subscribed, do hereby humbly certifye that we are 

 well assured that John Sadler and Guy Green did, at Liverpoole 

 aforesaid, on Tuesday, the 27th day of July last past, within the 

 space of six hours, print upwards of 1,200 earthenware tiles of 

 different colours and patterns, which is upon a moderate computa- 

 tion more than 100 good workmen could have done of the same 

 patterns in the same space of time by the usual painting with the 

 pencil. That we have since burnt the above tiles, and that they 

 are considerably neater than any we have seen pencilled, and may 

 be sold at little more than half the price. "We are also assured the 

 said John Sadler and Guy Green have been several years in bring- 

 ing the art of printing on earthenware to perfection, and we never 



