A different version of this poem was reprinted in the _Worcester Journal_ of January, 1758, with the addition of a couple of lines. It is there headed:--“On seeing an armed bust of the King of Prussia curiously imprinted on a Porcelain Cup of the Worcester Manufacture, with Fame resounding her Trump and an emblematical representation of his victories: Addressed to Mr. Josiah Holdship;” and an “_extempore_ on the compliment of imprinting the King of Prussia’s Bust being ascribed to Mr. Josiah Holdship.” The _extempore_ being the following important lines:-- “Handcock, my friend, don’t _grieve_, tho’ Holdship has the praise, ’Tis yours to execute--’tis his to wear the bays.” From this it would seem that the credit of the invention (for more information see the chapters on the Liverpool potteries and the Coalport china works) was even then a vexed question in Worcester; some ascribing it to Holdship, and others to Hancock; and, no doubt, each of those individuals claiming it for himself. Robert Hancock was an engraver of some eminence in Worcester, and “was chief engraver[79] to the Worcester Porcelain Company on its first establishment;” and it is also said he was in partnership with Dr. Wall. He died in 1817, aged eighty-seven. Valentine Green, the historian of Worcester, and a famous mezzo-tint engraver, was a pupil of Robert Hancock’s (by whom many of the plates in his “History of Worcester” are engraved), as was also James Ross, the line engraver. Valentine Green died in London in 1813, and was buried in the churchyard of St. Mary’s, Paddington, where his gravestone now stands. Hancock, it is believed, had, previously to printing on porcelain at Worcester, produced some printed plaques at Battersea, specimens of which, with his name attached, are in existence.[80] Richard Holdship, it will have been seen, was one of the original proprietors of the Worcester works, and became, in 1751, the lessee of the premises (Warmstry House) in which the manufacturing operations were commenced. In 1759 he, conjointly with his brother Josiah Holdship, purchased the property for £600, having previously purchased some houses to the south of the works, on whose site he erected a large and commodious mansion. He, however, became bankrupt in 1761, having sold his shares in the porcelain works to Mr. David Henry, of London, for the immense sum of five shillings.