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fordshire potters, who continued the manufacture at New 

 Hall for some time, when the ordinary soft-paste china, 

 which had previously been tried by Champion, was allowed 

 to supersede it. Thus the works at Bristol were brought to 

 a close, and the manufacture of porcelain was lost to the 

 locality. Champion himself is said to have removed for a 

 time into Staffordshire, and to have remained there until the 

 year 1782. 



