DON POTTERY. 
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it is of great rarity, one specimen being in the possession of Mr. 
Thomas Boynton, Bridlington, where I have had the pleasure of 
examining it, along with many other beautiful specimens of York¬ 
shire Pottery which are in Mr. Boynton's Collection. This jug 
was made in two sizes. On either side of the larger ones is the 
figure of an uncouth and slovenly looking man in red coat, pink 
waistcoat, striped green and white under-waistcoat, orange necker¬ 
chief, orange breeches above which his shirt is seen, top boots and 
spurs. In his hand he holds his hat, orange with red ribbons, on 
which is a card bearing the words. “ Milton for ever.” Beneath 
the spout on a scroll is the following curious verse : — 
“ The Figure there is no mistaking, 
It is the famous Man for— breaking, 
Oh that instead of Horse and Mare 
He had but broken Crockery-ware. 
Each grateful Potter in a bumper 
Might drink the health of 
Orange J umper." 
The history of this man is so interesting that I here quote 
Jewitt's account of him verbatim. 
“ This man who was known all the country round as ‘ Orange 
Jumper,' was a very eccentric character, and a great mover in the 
political ‘ stirs’ of his county. He was a horse breaker at Went¬ 
worth, and many extraordinary stories are remembered in connec¬ 
tion with him. One of these as connected with the story of this 
jug is worth repeating. In the great Yorkshire election of 1807— 
the most costly and the most strongly contested election on record 
—when the candidates who were so mercilessly pitted against 
each other were Lord Milton, Whlberforce, and Lascelles, ‘Orange 
Jumper’ was employed to carry dispatches regularly backwards 
and forwards from York to Wentworth House, the seat of Earl 
Fitzwilliam, the father of Lord Milton, who eventually won the 
election, and was returned as the colleague of Wilberforce. Orange 
was the Fitzwilliam colour, and blue that of Lascelles (son of the 
Earl of Harewood) his opponent; and on one occasion ‘ Jumper ' 
was seen entering York decked out as usual in orange, but riding 
on an ass gaily decorated with bright blue ribands. On being 
jeered at for this apparent inconsistency in wearing both colours, 
he replied that he wore the right colour, orange, and that his ass 
was only like other asses, for they were all donkeys that wore 
blue ! ” 
