LEONARD LEAD, of Belper, “wood collier,” executed articles of agreement on the 20th May, 1790, by which he bound himself to “burn, manufacture, and convert into charcoal in a good and workmanlike manner, all the cord wood which he the said William Duesbury shall have occasion to have converted into charcoal;” not to work for any one else when he has any in hand for him; and to be paid 7_d._ a quarter for every quarter of charcoal so made. In this he continued till 1795, when Mr. Duesbury finally gave up the use of charcoal. In a letter of Lead’s he says that “for generations back, both of father’s side and mother’s, have followed the above-mentioned business” of “coaling and cording line”--_i.e._, charcoal burning. A son of his, of the same name, was, I believe, apprenticed at the works as a flower-painter. WILLIAM LONGDON, sen., was a china painter of considerable note at the Derby Works. WILLIAM LONGDON, jun., son of William Longdon, sen., china painter, became an apprentice to Mr. Duesbury, July 5th, 1790, “for painting or embellishing porcelain or earthenware.” In an order in bastardy in 1799, he is described as a “china-painter.” JOHN LOVEGROVE (the same as named on page 58 in my notice of the Cock-pit Hill Works), EDMUND HOPKINSON, and JOSEPH KIRKLAND, gilders. WILLIAM LOVEGROVE entered into an agreement to work for Duesbury. DANIEL LUCAS, a landscape and general painter, died in 1867. His sons, John, William, and Daniel, were all apprenticed at the Derby works. MACLACHLAN, a painter of landscapes. THOMAS MASON, of Derby, “China or Porcelain repairer,” bound himself by an agreement, dated September 2, 1772, for four years to Mr. Duesbury, at one guinea per week; Mr. Duesbury, by an additional clause, promising “to make Thomas Mason a present of five guineas at the end of each year over and above what is specified in the articles (according to his service).” Later on a Thomas Mason was a timekeeper. M. MASON was an apprentice to Mr. Duesbury as a painter. He left Derby and engaged himself to Mr. Barr of Worcester, in October, 1792. GEORGE MELLOR, whose forte was painting flowers and insects, was an apprentice but left and went to Pinxton. After that he was employed at Coalport, and then in Staffordshire, but returned to the Derby works. He died in 1861. His son, George Mellor (now of London), was also a painter and gilder, as likewise was his daughter Sarah. WILLIAM MOORE, EDWARD BELFIELD, JOHN MORLEDGE, THOMAS TRUNDELL, and JOSEPH SHIPLEY, were throwers in 1774–6. JOHN MORLIDGE, son of William Morlidge, of Derby, hatter, was apprenticed for seven years, on the 21st August, 1777, “to learn the Art of Repairing of China or Porcelain Ware.”