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that he was the first that introduced it for the benefit of their hospital. If 

 this trade should miss after so large a sum already expended on it we shall 

 lose a trade that will save large sums that go from us to France for 

 earthenware." 



September 17th, 1754: — "The earthenware manufactory on the Strand is 

 now finished, and built to employ two or three hundred people. All Charter- 

 School, parish or distressed tradesmen's children of either sex will be received 

 and taught all the different branches of making all sorts of earthenware by 

 the best masters. Each child during apprenticeship to get two shillings a 

 week for the first year, three shillings for the second, three shillings and 

 sixpence for the third, four shillings for the fourth, and four shillings and 

 sixpence for the last three years. — Heney Delamain." 



June 10th, 1755 : — " The great efforts that is made by some people (whose 

 interests it is) to hurt the earthenware manufactory in the Strand, obliges 

 the proprietor thereof to inform the publick that the Hon. the Dublin 

 Society has certified the earthenware made there is as good as any imported 

 here, and is sold 30 per cent, cheaper than the French earthenware, to 

 prevent the importation of which Delamain can prove that he has spent 

 above £5,000 in building and furnishing one of the largest manufactories of the 

 kind in Europe. As some of the clerks have sold some faulty ware that was 

 ordered to be broken, to prevent which for the future, the ware will be sold 

 at the India warehouse in Abbey Street, where all orders will be received 

 and executed with expedition. The ware will be sold wholesale at the 

 manufactory only." 



August 30 th, 1755 : " To the merchants of the Kingdom of Ireland — I 

 have brought my earthenware to such perfection that I have a great demand 

 for it from Germany, Spain, and Portugal, but for want of capital I am not able 

 to export a quantity of it, which makes me have recourse to such gentlemen 

 as trades in these Kingdoms to assist me by sending it abroad. Since I 

 have discovered the method of burning my ware with coal, and found out 

 lately a good body and glaze, I can serve them on such reasonable terms that 

 they can undersell the French in all the foreign markets. All losses on 

 my ware that is sold abroad I will reimburse the exporters of it. The 

 warehouse at the manufactory will be open "Wednesdays ' and Saturdays only 

 for wholesale." 



Delamain again petitioned Parliament for aid in November, 1755, and in 

 the following year was granted £1,100 to enable him to carry on the 

 manufacture. In Eoque's Map of Dublin, of 1756, Delamain's factory is 

 marked as being in Mabbot Street, between Frenchman's Lane and the Strand, 

 probably about where Eourke's bakery is now situated, 



