neither of which clays or slips must have any gravel or sand in them; upon this account before it be brought to the wheel they prepare the clay by steeping it in water in a square pit, till it be of a due consistence; then they bring it to their beating board, where with a long spatula they beat it till it be well mixed; then being first made into great squarish rolls, it is brought to the wageing board, where it is slit into flat thin pieces with a wire, and the least stones or gravel pickt out of it; This being done, they wage it, i.e. knead or mould it like bread, and make it into round balls proportionable to their work, and then tis brought to the wheel, and formed as the workman sees good. “When the potter has wrought the clay either into hollow or flat ware, they are set abroad to dry in fair weather, but by the fire in foule, turning them as they see occasion, which they call whaving: when they are dry they stouk them, i.e. put ears and handles to such vessels as require them: These also, being dry, they then slip or paint them with their several sorts of slip, according as they design their work,—when the first slip is dry, laying on the others at their leasure, the orange slip making the ground, and the white and red the paint; which two colours they break with a wire brush, much after the manner they do when they marble paper, and then cloud them with a pensil when they are pretty dry. After the vessels are painted they lead them, with that sort of lead ore they call smithum, which is the smallest ore of all, beaten into dust, finely sifted and strewed upon them; which gives them the gloss, but not the colour;[10] all the colours being chiefly given by the variety of slips, except the motley colour, which is procured by blending the lead with manganese, by the workmen called ‘magnus.’[11] But when they have a mind to show the utmost of their skill in giving their wares a fairer gloss than ordinary, they lead them then with lead calcined into powder, which they also sift fine and strew upon them as before, which not only gives them a higher gloss, but goes much further too in their work, than lead ore would have done.