. The Wedgwoods: being a life of Josiah Wedgwood; with notices of his works and their productions, memoirs of the Wedgwood and other families, and a history of the early potteries of Staffordshire. nd Derbyshire—for Chesterfield, in the lattercounty, produced some of the best—may not be generallyknown to the readers of this volume, and therefore a few-words concerning them may appropriately be allude to posset pots. These have been made and regu-larly used in these and some neighbouring counties from anearly period until the last few years. Posset, my readerswill need to be told,
. The Wedgwoods: being a life of Josiah Wedgwood; with notices of his works and their productions, memoirs of the Wedgwood and other families, and a history of the early potteries of Staffordshire. nd Derbyshire—for Chesterfield, in the lattercounty, produced some of the best—may not be generallyknown to the readers of this volume, and therefore a few-words concerning them may appropriately be allude to posset pots. These have been made and regu-larly used in these and some neighbouring counties from anearly period until the last few years. Posset, my readerswill need to be told, is an excellent mixture of hot ale, milk,sugar, spices, and small slices of bread or oat-cake. InDerbyshire and StaiFordshire, and their neighbourhood, thisbeverage was formerly almost, if not quite, universal forsupper on Christmas Eve, and the posset pot was thusused but once a year, and became often an heir-loom in thefamily. A small silver coin, and the wedding ring of themistress of the family, were generally dropped into theposset when the guests were assembled, and those whopartook of it took each a spoonful in turn as the potwas handed round. Whichever of the party fished up the. coin was considered certain of <!oud luck in the coming vear,while an early and hai)py marriage was believed to be tliecertain fate of the lucky individual who fished uj) the posset pot, here engraved, of much the same kind of ware Chelsea, and was indeed the distinguishing mark of that celebrated three spots were simply the marks of the stilts, not of the manu-factory, and may be seen on Delft, and indeed almost all other kinds ofware, and of every period. THE EAELY POTTERIES OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 65 as the cradle before illustrated, is in the Bateman MuseiUii,and is dated 1711, and bears the words— GOD : SAVE : THE : QUEEN : 1711: the queen alluded to so loyally being, of course, QueenAnne. For the purpose of showing that the same general formhas obtained to our own tim
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