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addition of any of the other colours, firing them upon the vessels as 

 before directed. 



"In witness whereof, I, the said Josiah "Wedgwood, have here- 

 unto set my hand and seal the thirteenth day of March, one thou- 

 sand seven hundred and seventy. 



" JOSIAH "WEDGWOOD. (L.S.) 



" And be it remembered, that on the same thirteenth day of 

 March, in the year last above mentioned, the aforesaid Josiah 

 Wedgwood came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, 

 and acknowledged the Specification, and all and everything therein 

 contained in form above written. And also the Specification afore- 

 said was stampt according to the tenor of the Statute made in the 

 sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen William and 

 Mary of England and so forth. 



"Inrolled the fourteenth day of March, in the year above written. 



"P. HOLFOED." 



Examples of the vases made under this patent which, 

 was to secure his invention " for the purpose of ornamenting 

 earthen and porcelain ware with an encaustic gold bronze, 

 together with a peculiar species of encaustic painting in 

 various colours, in imitation of the ancient Etruscan earthen- 

 ware," to himself are to be found in many collections, and 

 I shall have more to say of them in my next chapter. 



