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imitation of Staffordshire ware or that co m monly known as yellow stone- 

 ware. 



A factory appears to have been set up as on December 12th, 1771, 

 Edward Ackers and James Shelly, stone- and earthen-ware manufacturers, 

 froni Staffordshire, petitioned for aid to cany on the manufacture. 



In 1773 " £200 was awarded to Edward Staeey, Edward Ackers, and 

 Thomas Shelly, stone- and earthen-ware manufacturers from Staffordshire, but 

 now of the City of Dublin, for flint ware, commonly called Queen's ware, 

 manufactured by them in Ireland, and chiefly of Irish materials, between 

 March, 1772, and March, 1773, to the value of £1,334 4s. 3d." 



They also received a premium of £80 for Queen's ware valued at £800, 

 made between March, 1773, and March, 1774. Edward Staeey appears as 

 one of the proprietors of " the delft manufactory of the World's End Lane " 

 in 1765, and probably joined with Ackers and Shelly when that factory 

 ceased working. 



This delft manufactory of the "World's End Lane may have belonged to 

 Ambrose Henley, who, in June, 1765, received a premium of £45 from the 

 Dublin Society for second-quality delft manufactured by him since June, 

 1764, and valued at £300. He also received £70 for delft-ware manufactured 

 between June, 1765, and June, 1766, to the value of £573. It appears, 

 however, that Henley deceived the Dublin Society regarding the quantity of 

 ware he made ; and it was ordered that he was to get no further premiums. 

 In October, 1766, James Eoach was awarded £12 for " discovering a fraud by 

 which the Society were imposed upon in June last to give a premium of £70 

 to Ambrose Henley, manufacturer of earthenware." 



In 1775, Eichard Williams, a glass-maker, advertises Queen's or Paris ware, 

 but whether he made it, or even that it was made in Dublin, is uncertain. 



After about this date no mention of any pottery -manufacture in Dublin 

 occurs; but in 1791 the following advertisement appears in The Dublin 

 Journal: — "The pottery business was formerly carried on with some degree 

 of success in this city, but only in the common lines of workmanship ; now 

 there are only two persons who carry on the manufacture. About fourteen 

 years ago a person undertook to carry on the Queen's ware in imitation of that 

 of Chinese in the vicinity of this city ; but the undertaker, who brought over 

 men from Staffordshire, suddenly died, and no one has since attempted the 

 like undertaking. The common ware is still made, but of a very inferior 

 sort." 



In John Angel's " General History of Ireland," published in Dublin in 

 17S1, the following references to earthenware manufacture in Ireland occur : — 

 "The great quantities of pipe-clay found in Clonmel and other parts of Ireland 



