An order was made on August 10, 1693, for a trial of the action against Morley and the Elers for the making of a brown mug and two red teapots in imitation of china. Before the trial came on in November the Elers came to terms with Dwight, and Morley put off his case by claiming that he only made brown mugs and not the red teapots. On December 15, 1693, the three Wedgwoods were ordered to be added to the Bill as defendants, and on May 5, 1694, Matthew Garner was added also. On May 19, 1694, the Wedgwoods “for delay have craved a _dedimus_ to answer in the country,” and yet in the meantime proceed to make and vend the several wares, against which continuance the plaintiff Dwight obtained an injunction “until they shall directly answer to the complaint and the Court shall make other order to the contrary against them their workmen servants and agents.” On June 21, 1694, a similar injunction was obtained against Matthew Garner; and on July 26, 1695, against Morley. Garner in his turn wanted his witnesses examined in the country, and the cases against him and Morley and one Luke Talbott dragged on till July, 1696, though nothing more is to be found of the suit against the Wedgwoods. Probably they too compromised on the basis of each paying their own costs, for the last notice there is of these suits is one dated July 1, 1696, which shows Dwight suing his solicitor for excessive costs. [Illustration: Earliest known piece of Staffordshire salt glaze ware, 1701. From the Stoke-on-Trent Museums.] This suit, given by Professor Church in the “Burlington Magazine” (February, 1908) upsets a good many preconceptions, and throws considerable light on the stage at which the development of the potting craft had arrived in 1693. In the first place Garner, a Staffordshire lad to judge from his name, is apprenticed to a London potter. This shows communication between London and Staffordshire, and a clear desire to improve a potting trade in Staffordshire by contact with more civilized methods. Then the injunction obtained against Aaron Wedgwood and his sons, “Doctor” Thomas and Richard “of the Overhouse,” shows that they were making in 1693 the red teapots, known to collectors as Elers and Dwight, and the brown stoneware which, glazed with salt, was later the characteristic work of Dr Thomas Wedgwood. We must, therefore, call these Wedgwoods and Matthew Garner the first known Staffordshire makers of stoneware, and as Garner was out of his apprenticeship in 1688, and Elers started in Fulham in 1690, we can give the date 1690 as the starting point of the stoneware glazed with salt in Staffordshire.