DAVID KEEN, } JOSEPH HALL, } “Fire-men,” all bound themselves by agreement JACOB SPOONER, } for three years each, on the 2nd September, ROBERT WOODWARD, } 1772, to employ “themselves in glazing and THOMAS WARDLE, } burning of Porcelain, or in such other branch SAMUEL WEAVER, } of the business” as Mr. Duesbury might think WILLIAM WHITEHALL,} proper to employ them in, at six shillings JOHN BUTLER, } per week each. WILLAM YATES, } SAMUEL KEY, son of Thomas Key, of Derby, who let out horses for hire, was, in 1785, apprenticed to Mr. Duesbury, and died in 1850, in his 80th year. He was a painter of considerable skill, especially in the fashionable Dresden style. After leaving Derby, he worked for Minton’s at Stoke-upon-Trent. He drew up a MS. account of the old Derby China Works, from memory, in 1837, of which he seems to have made two or three copies; one of these is in my own possession. Three of his sons, John, a flower-painter; Edward, a modeller; and Samuel, also a modeller; were apprenticed at the works. The latter became a famous modeller, and his statuettes of theatrical celebrities and others were of a high order and became popular. He removed into Staffordshire. JOHN KEY, son of Samuel Key, also an apprentice, was a clever painter of flowers, and afterwards a teacher of drawing, but died young. His brother Samuel is a clever modeller. JOSEPH LAKIN was employed in 1789. JOHN LAWRENCE, “repairer,” was one of the earlier hands, and in 1772 he, along with Robert Askew the younger, absconded while under articles of agreement, and was advertised in the Birmingham papers. On April 11, 1790, he wrote, “I now am in employ for Mr. Turner, the Salop china manufactory.” This was after he left Derby. In July of the same year, dating from “Broasley, July 12, 1790,” he desires letters to be addressed to him “at the China Works, near Bridgnorth, Shropshire.” STEPHEN LAWRENCE was a clever moulder of ornamental ware. CUTHBERT LAWTON, or LOWTON, was a painter of figures and general subjects, including hunting scenes, which are said to have been his forte.