The other engravings are from Burslem churchyard--the same ground in which some of the older of the Wedgwoods are buried, and adjoining which Thomas Wedgwood’s “Churchyard Works” stood when Josiah Wedgwood was an apprentice there, and still exist. They are early (1737) and good specimens of these interesting memorials. Another bears the simple inscription, “Elesbeth Malkin Aged 96: 1745.” Many others of various dates occur. * * * * * _Toft._--The name of Toft is intimately connected with pottery, both in Staffordshire and Derbyshire. The names of Thomas Toft and Ralph Toft occur on large coarse earthenware dishes of the middle of the seventeenth century (see vol. i. pages 101 to 104), some of which are dated. The material of the body of Toft’s dishes platters, and other domestic articles, is a coarse, reddish, or buff-coloured clay--a common fire-brick clay--and the patterns are laid on in yellow, white, or other coloured slip, and then thickly glazed over with a lead glaze. I have reason to believe that some of the Tofts were potters at Tickenhall (which see, page 152). [Illustration: Fig. 348. THOMASTOFT] [Illustration: Figs. 349 to 362.--Examples of early Staffordshire Wares, Museum of Practical Geology.] * * * * * _Talor._--Apparently contemporary with the Tofts, or at all events producing precisely the same kind of dishes, &c., was William Talor, one of whose productions is in the Bateman collection. He was probably of Staffordshire, and most likely of the same family as the Taylors, potters of Burslem, in the beginning of last century. * * * * * _Sans._--Another contemporary of the Tofts was William Sans, whom Shaw states to have used manganese and pulverised galena in his processes. The name Thomas Sans also occurs on an example. * * * * * _Turnor._--Turnor is a name so long and so intimately connected with potting and Staffordshire, that it is fair to presume Ralph Turnor, whose name ^{RALPH TURNOR}_{1681} occurs on a tyg of the same general character as Toft’s dishes, belongs to that county. * * * * * _Shawe._--Ralph Shawe, of Burslem, “earth potter,” in 1733 took out a patent for improvements in earthenware (see Vol. I. p. 110). In 1736 he commenced an action for infringement of his patent right, against John Mitchell, an extensive potter of the same town, but was defeated (p. 111). He removed with his family into France, where he carried on his trade, but his family, about 1750, returned to Burslem. About 1710 Aaron Shaw was a maker of stone and dipped wares in Burslem, with a house adjoining his works; and Moses Shaw (surely two brothers, Aaron and Moses!) made stone and freckled goods at the same place, with a house in the middle of the town. * * * * *