“From which Limestone Hills, and rich pastures and meddows, the great Dairys are maintained in this part of Staffordshire, that supply Uttoxeter Mercat with such vast quantites of good butter and cheese, that the Cheesemongers of London have thought it worth their while to set up a Factorage here for these commodities, which are brought in from this, and the neighbouring county of Derby, in so great plenty, that the Factors many Mercat days (in the season) lay out no less than five hundred pounds a day in these two commodities only. The Butter they buy by the _Pot_ of a long cylendrical form, made at _Burslem_, in this county, of a certain size, so as not to weigh above six pounds at most, and yet to contain at least 14 pounds of Butter, according to an Act of Parliament made about 14 or 16 years agoe, for regulateing the abuses of this trade in the make of Pots, and false packing of the Butter; which before was sometimes layed good for a little depth at the _top_, and bad at the _bottom_; and sometimes set in _rolls_ only touching at the _top_, and standing hollow _below_ at a great distance from the sides of the pot. To prevent these little Moorlandish cheats (than whom no people whatever are esteemed most subtile) the Factors keep a _Surveyor_ all the Summer here, who if he have ground to suspect any of the _Pots_, tryes them with an instrument of Iron, made like a _Cheese-Taster_, only much larger and longer, called an _Auger_ or _Butter-boare_, with which he makes proof (thrusting it in _obliquely_) to the bottom of the Pot: so that they _weigh_ none (which would be an endless business) or very seldom; nor do they _bore_ it neither, where they know their customer to be a constant fair dealer. But their _Cheese_ which comes but little, if anything short of that of Cheshire, they sell by weight as at other places.” In reference to this, the Historian of Uttoxeter says:--