Under Mr. Duesbury, the manager of the Chelsea works, was Richard Barton (a modeller and general workman); and the “weekly bills” of wages and disbursements, now in my possession, as made out by him, are highly interesting and valuable, as showing the kind of articles then made at Chelsea, the names of the workmen and painters, and the amounts earned by each from week to week. These bills commence in March, 1770, and run over the next three or more years. The final destruction of the works is carefully described in some excellent letters, also in my possession, to which I shall refer later on. From these “weekly bills” I have selected some items which are of more than passing interest, and which tend, more materially than other information can, to throw light on the Chelsea works at this particular period--a period, it must be borne in mind, _later_ than that at which the works are generally said to have been discontinued. It must be remembered that, until my account of the “Derby China Works” appeared in the columns of the _Art-Journal_, in 1862, nothing had ever been known of the connection of Duesbury with the concern. The information I there gave of his purchase of the Chelsea factory was new; and upon what I then wrote every later account of the Chelsea works has been founded. The works were till then generally believed to have been discontinued in 1765, but I have been enabled to show that they were not finally given up until 1784, when the kilns were taken down. In June, 1776, her Majesty Queen Charlotte paid a visit to Duesbury’s London Show Rooms in Bedford Street, Covent Garden, and was shown through by his agent, Mr. Wood. The following is an account of the event:-- “On Friday last _her Majesty_ accompany’d with the Dutchess of Ancaster was pleased to honor with her presence Mr. Duesburys Ware Rooms in Bedford Street, Covent Garden, condescended to express great approbation at those beautiful articles of Derby and Chelsea porcelain, and patronize and encourage the same by making some purchases.” The “weekly bills” of the Chelsea China Works, in my own possession, are very carefully prepared, and give the names and salaries of the workmen employed, as well as the kinds of goods they were engaged in making. They are thus particularly interesting and important, and are calculated to throw no little light on the history of the works. I quote two weeks in full, May 12th to 19th, 1770; and March 16th to 23rd, 1771, as examples of the style of these “weekly bills;” and I have added to these some few extracts, to show the kind of ware then being made, and the prices which the workmen received for painting, &c. 1770. _A Weekly Bill at Chelsea from May the 12 to the 19._