YEARSLEY POTTERY. 
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Pancheons are thick coarse earthenware pans, made of various 
sizes, and used for setting away milk in, and for washing purposes. 
They are made in many localities, and besides being sold by 
earthenware dealers, are hawked about the country by men who 
make their living in no other way. Several fragments of brown 
pottery have been dug up at Yearsley, and amongst the rest, 
Jewitt mentions a brown earthenware oven, green glaze, semi¬ 
circular, open at the top, with a hollowed ledge round the inner 
side about half way, and a flat bottom, having two handles at the 
sides, and between them a crinkled ornament bearing some letters, 
and the date 1712. 
The Yearsley Pottery has been done away with for many years, 
and now the plough goes over its site. I have found several frag¬ 
ments of the old pottery when going over the ground. 
YORK. PLACE’S WARE. 
The names of potters appear very early in the list of the Free¬ 
men of York. The first to be mentioned is Thomas de Brandesby, 
potter, in the 12th year of the reign of Edward the First, 1284. 
Fig. 102. Jug. Mr. T. Boynton’s Collection. 
Francis Place, who may be looked upon as one of the pioneers 
of modern pottery, commenced the manufacture of what at the 
