. Staffordshire pottery and its history . the draught, whether 2, 2 J, or 3 cwt.,for the colliers guessed at the quantity. The chargefor carrying each load from Norton to Burslemwas 3d., a penny a mile.* During a long time hecarried crates of pottery to Winsford, and broughtback ball clay. Each horse carried a crate on a packsaddle, and a small panier on each side was used tohold two or three balls of clay, weighing 60 or 70lbs. Each horse was muzzled to prevent it bitingthe hedges, and the roads were narrow and badand without toll gates. Afterwards with a cart andfour horses he went to Winsfo
. Staffordshire pottery and its history . the draught, whether 2, 2 J, or 3 cwt.,for the colliers guessed at the quantity. The chargefor carrying each load from Norton to Burslemwas 3d., a penny a mile.* During a long time hecarried crates of pottery to Winsford, and broughtback ball clay. Each horse carried a crate on a packsaddle, and a small panier on each side was used tohold two or three balls of clay, weighing 60 or 70lbs. Each horse was muzzled to prevent it bitingthe hedges, and the roads were narrow and badand without toll gates. Afterwards with a cart andfour horses he went to Winsford and delivered hiscrates the same day; and on the second day broughtback a ton of Chester clay to Burslem. He wasallowed four days to take crates to Bridgenorth,and bring back shop goods for Newcastle. Hewent with crates to Willington Ferry, and returnedwith flint, plaister stone and shop goods. He hasgone to Liverpool and also as far as Exeter, beforethere were regular carriers. *This makes 6s. 8d. a ton delivered at the Pot Bank. 82. CHAPTER VI. WEDGWOOD AND THE CREAM COLOUR. SUCH were the conditions under which thesalt glaze of Staffordshire and the agate ofStaffordshire were produced and perfected;and having traced these manufactures to their cli-max, it now remains to describe the rise of cream-coloured earthenware—the cream colour, whichunder Wedgwood became universal and perfectedas we know it to-day. But it would be a mistaketo attribute all good cream colour to as all red teapots get put down to Elers; or assalt glaze is divided between Dr Thomas Wedg-wood and Astbury according to character; and justas all another class of ware with irregular splashesof coloured glaze is called Whieldon, so muchthat Wedgwood never put his hand to has gotdubbed with his name, to the exclusion of con-temporaries as enterprising, such as Warburton and Turner, and to the neglect of predecessors who,G2 83 WEDGWOODS STAFFORDSHIRE like Astbury and Booth, had already done ver
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