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cup in a grey stone-ware. Also illustrated is a small jelly-mould made in 

 glazed buff-coloured ware, which, with other similar pieces in Mr. Young's 

 possession, are said to be authentic examples of Belfast pottery. (Plate III.) 



Another pottery was set up in Belfast by Victor Coats about the same 

 time as that of Greg, Stephenson, and Ashmore. Coats appears to have sold 

 hair-powder and starch, and also to have been proprietor of a pottery at 

 Ballymacarrett. Probably only coarse earthenware was made ; for in May, 

 1793, he advertises for sale "a good assortment of butter-crocks, and milk- 

 pans of different sizes, garden-pots, ridge, malt-kiln and flooring-tiles of a 

 remarkable good quality, and also chimney-pots made to any shape at the 

 shortest notice." In 1795 he founded a starch manufactory, and probably 

 shortly after this the pottery was closed; for in 1795 and 1796 he advertises 

 butter-crocks and tiles to be sold cheap to close sales. Coats subsequently 

 appears as partner in the firm of M'Clenaghan, Stainton, and Co., of the 

 Lagan Foundry, Short Strand, Ballymacarrett. He carried on the foundry 

 in his own name from 1802 until his death in 1812. 



In James Williamson's map of Belfast, made in 1791, both " Coats' 

 Pottery " and " China Manufactory " are marked close to one another on the 

 banks of the river Lagan, to the right of the road running from the Long 

 bridge to Ballymacarrett bridge, but nearer to the latter. The china 

 manufactory was that of Greg, Stephenson, and Ashmore. 



In the Statistical Survey of County Down, published in 1802, it is stated 

 that the manufacture of a superior kind of black glazed ware was carried on 

 at the County Down end of the Belfast Bridge. 



Wexford. 



It is said that the manufacture of fine pottery was carried on in County 

 Wexford early in the eighteenth century. In the " Chronicles of the County 

 Wexford," by George Griffith, published in Enniscorthy in 1877, the writer 

 states that " among the new settlers who came into the County of Wexford 

 after the Ee volution was a Quaker of the name of Chamberleyne who settled 

 at Great Killiane on Wexford harbour. He was of a Staffordshire family, and 

 had more or less knowledge of the pottery art. Chamberleyne, as a specula- 

 tion, began making earthenware, at first of the coarse kind, for which he found 

 a ready and remunerative demand. Later he was induced to embark on a 

 more extensive and higher class of business, and imported materials from 

 England, and enlarged his concerns. The trade prospering, Chamberleyne 

 was induced to try his hand at china ; his earlier efforts were successful, but, 

 venturing on too large a scale, the result was a total failure." 



