But to Jacob Warburton the Potteries are chiefly indebted for the revival of Littler’s attempt to introduce the manufacture of hard paste porcelain into Staffordshire. It will be remembered that Richard Champion of Bristol had in 1775 obtained an extension of his monopoly of the use of china clay and china stone in the manufacture of porcelain. In spite of this monopoly he met with but little success in Bristol, and in 1781 he sold his patent to a company in Staffordshire—the first instance recorded of a potting company. Of this company Jacob Warburton was the moving spirit. After John Turner, of Lane End, and Anthony Keeling, of the Phœnix Works in Tunstall, had withdrawn from the scheme, the company—consisting then of Warburton, Sam. Hollins (the red china potter of Shelton) and two financiers—settled their manufactory at Shelton New Hall.[122] Their porcelain is always spoken of as “New Hall China,” but it was of little importance or artistic merit. John Daniel, son of that Richard Daniel who had introduced plaster of Paris moulds from France, was appointed manager and became a partner some years before his death in 1821.[123] Jacob Warburton himself died at Rushton in the old Abbey Grange in 1826, but even before that time the manufacture of hard paste porcelain at the New Hall had ceased.[124] Another enameller who attained success by perfecting the cream-coloured ware was Elijah Mayer. He is said to have been originally foreign agent for the Chatterleys, and as late as 1787 he appears as an enameller pure and simple, though already in business on his own account. Soon after this date his factory at Hanley began turning out not only cream colour, admirably enamelled in the sober artistic style of Wedgwood’s best Queen’s Ware, but also black basalt, which is every bit as good and has as good a reputation as the best that was turned out at Etruria.[125] Other very early makers of porcelain were Messrs Baddeley and Fletcher. For some time after 1763 they attempted, with William Littler as manager, to make glassy porcelain similar to that of Longton Hall. Mr Fletcher was the father of Sir Thomas Fletcher, M.P. for Newcastle, and ancestor of the Fletcher-Bougheys, Baronets of Aqualate. Mr John Baddeley the elder was the father of Ralph and John Baddeley, who carried on the works and made an early success with blue printed earthenware.[126]