The purchase of the Chelsea works was arranged on the 17th of August, 1769, and completed on the 5th of February, 1770, when a payment of £400, in part of the purchase money, was made. The original document, now in my possession, is highly interesting, and is as follows:-- “Recd. London, 5th Feby. 1770, of Mr. Wm. Duesbury, four hundred pounds, in part of the purchase of the Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory and its apurtenances and lease thereof, which I promise to assign over to him on or before the 8th instant. “JAMES COX.” Thus the Chelsea works, which had been taken to by Mr. Duesbury in August, 1769, and had been, indeed, carried on at his cost from about that period, finally passed into his hands on the 8th of February, 1770. The purchase included not only the “Porcelain manufactory and its appurtenances and the lease thereof,” but the stock of finished and unfinished goods then on the premises; and this gave rise to a long and tedious lawsuit, of which I shall have to speak hereafter. Mr. Duesbury also, it would appear, covenanted to pay all liabilities on the estate, and of course to receive all moneys due to it. At the foot of the bill from Mrs. Thomas to Mr. Cox, printed above, there is this very significant foot-note:--“Mr. Cox sold Mr. Deusbury the whole, who was to pay the above, and every other matter.” Other bills, in my possession, including one from William Payne, the carpenter, for £19 15_s._ 5_d._, for repairs done at the works for Mr. Cox, are endorsed as paid by Mr. Duesbury. In this carpenters bill one item shows that the works were palisadoed:--“Dec. 9, 1769. To repairing the yard gates and palisades, setting on locks, 9_s._ 6_d._” The accounts do not appear to have been quite cleared up until the year 1780, when, upon the winding up of the affairs of Mr. Cox, on his failure or death, a claim was made on Mr. Duesbury by the solicitor, Mr. Jasper Jay, for balance of account as then “standing open in the books of Mr. Cox.” The account is but short; but as all this is useful material towards the history of the Chelsea works, and is therefore of importance, I give it entire. _Messrs._ WM. DEUSBURY & CO., _Dr. to the Estate of_ JAMES COX.