[38] A family of Adams lived and potted at the Brick House in Burslem for over 200 years. In 1762 Josiah Wedgwood rented the Brick House works for seven years during the minority of the then Adams of Brick House. The family became extinct early in the nineteenth century. [39] Wedgwood MSS. [40] Burton, _op. cit._, p. 86. [41] Shaw, _op. cit._, p. 126. [42] But there are several places called Delf or Delves in Staffordshire, and they took their name from spots where men delved or dug turf for peat. [43] Burton, _op. cit._, p. 83. [44] Aikin, “Manchester,” p. 527. [45] Shaw, _op. cit._, p. 145. [46] Aikin, _op. cit._, p. 528. [47] Burton, _op. cit._, p. 89. [48] Burton, _op. cit._, p. 88. [49] Shaw, _op. cit._, p. 147. [50] Ward, “Stoke-on-Trent,” p. 227. [51] Shaw, _op. cit._, p. 163. [52] Shaw, _op. cit._, p. 150, 151. [53] Shaw, _op. cit._, p. 153. [54] Ward, _op. cit._, p. 230. [55] Shaw, _op. cit._, pp. 152, 153. [56] Shaw, _op. cit._, p. 161. [57] Wedgwood’s Letters, II, 24. [58] Burton, _op. cit._, p. 102. [59] Shaw, _op. cit._, p. 161. [60] Shaw, _op. cit._, p. 157. [61] Shaw, _op. cit._, p. 176; and Ward, _op. cit._, p. 49. [62] Shaw, _op. cit._, p. 201. [63] Shaw, _op. cit._, p. 93. [64] Ward, _op. cit._, p. 283. [65] Shaw, _op. cit_., p. 179. [66] Shaw, _op. cit._, p. 168. [67] Burton, _op. cit._, p. 104. [68] J. H. Nightingale, “Old English Porcelain,” _passim_. [69] Burton, “History and Description of English Porcelain.” [70] Shaw, _op. cit._, 155. [71] Burton, “English Earthenware,” p. 111. [72] Burton, _op. cit._, p. 114-5. [73] L. Jewitt, “The Wedgwoods,” pp. 112-7. [74] “Earnest money” was the lump sum paid to a workman on his entering into his servitude. [75] An example of truck wages. [76] It is recorded of the Rev. J. Middleton, Master Potter and Curate of Hanley, _c._ 1750, that he refused to hire men by the year, deeming it slavery. It was not till 1866 that the Trade Unions put an end to the annual hiring of grown men by a year’s binding agreement. [77] Burton, “English Earthenware,” p. 119. [78] Shaw, _op. cit._, p. 157. [79] Ward, “Stoke-on-Trent,” p. 372. [80] Shaw, _op. cit._, pp. 148-9. [81] This makes 6s. 8d. a ton delivered at the Pot Bank.