If this list is to be regarded as satisfactory evidence, and it must be remembered that it only professes to be a report of the fifty-year-old recollections of old men, then it would appear that Burslem was still the narrow home of the Potteries. It shows us the master potter of that day, employing 11 hands at wages not exceeding 6s. a week, working himself, and out of his single oven-full a week making a profit of 10s. As represented it is still a peasant industry. But the scope and range of the pottery produced has increased since Dr Plot described “the greatest pottery they have in this County.” The butter-pots; the cloudy, mottled, speckled and black; probably the red dishes and pans; these all existed in Plot’s time; but what is the “moulded” ware made by Cartlich and Thomas Taylor and by Dr Thomas Wedgwood, jun., in the middle of Burslem? The stone ware too is new since Plot’s time. The five biggest factories all make this stoneware, Dr Thomas Wedgwood, sen., Moses Marsh, Aaron Shaw, Moses Shaw, Sam. Edge and Richard Wedgwood, the brother of Dr Thomas. Undoubtedly this was the new salt-glazed stoneware. The brown stoneware ascribed in the list to Dr Thomas Wedgwood coincides exactly with the drab salt-glazed teapot by him now in the South Kensington Museum. It is supposed to have been made by mixing the lightest burning local clay with the fine white sand from Baddeley Edge or Mow Cop.[40] The list gives no potworks at all at the Longton end of the district, yet then or shortly afterwards Delft ware was probably made at the place called Lane Delf, now part of Fenton. Shaw says that in 1710 Thomas Heath of Lane Delf was making a strange kind of pottery, and he proceeds to describe a particular dish in such a way as to show that it was really Delft ware.[41] There is no trace of Delft ware having been made anywhere else in the Potteries, or indeed at any subsequent time at Lane Delf itself, so that we may fairly ascribe to this solitary experiment of Thomas Heath’s the name of the locality.[42] [Illustration: Salt glaze teapot, drab body, supposed to be by Thomas Wedgwood, died 1737. From the Stoke-on-Trent Museums.] At this Longton end, soon after 1710, there was also made white ware of a greenish type, called Crouch Ware. It was made from clay found in Derbyshire that bore this name, and survived as a fairly white ware till Astbury drove it out with his whiter body. In 1725 Thomas Astbury, the younger, set up his new factory in Fenton, and from this date we may say that the whole of the present Pottery area was engaged in the production of Earthenware.[43]