In the same year, 1780, a sale of “a large quantity of earthern and china ware from the Pot Works on Cock-pit Hill, in Derby, being the stock-in-trade of Messrs. John and Christopher Heath, of Derby, bankrupts,” was advertised to take place by auction at the King’s Head Inn, Derby. The works were carried on for a year or two by the assignees of Messrs. Heath, but in 1782 “a lease of the Pot Works situate on Cock-pit Hill, in Derby, twelve years after which have yet to come, and unexpired, at Lady Day next, at the yearly rent of £6, and the lessee has a right by the lease to take away the buildings (except only leaving a fence-wall), and except a barn that was built on the premises before the lease was granted,” was advertised for sale by auction, along with other property, by the Heaths, “at the house of Mr. George Wallis (being the New Inn, in Derby), on Tuesday, 12th March.” The lease, however, does not seem to have found a purchaser, for in the _Derby Mercury_ of March, 1785, another sale is announced “in Messrs. Heath’s bankruptcy,” in lots, of “the materials of some buildings at the late Pot Works on Cock-pit Hill, in Derby, consisting of brick, tile, and timber; also some old iron, old lead, Hopton stone, a quantity of deal boards, and some lumber.” Although these works were very extensive, and produced a large quantity of goods of various kinds during the Heaths’ time, but few specimens can, unfortunately, be correctly appropriated. This, of course, is owing to the fact that no mark was used by the owners of the works, and therefore, doubtless, scores of examples pass as “early Staffordshire,” and as the productions of other places. Three or four well-authenticated pieces, however, may be named. The first is a jug in my own possession. It is of the “imitation of the Queen’s ware,” alluded to in a previous page, and bears on one side, within a border of foliage, the quaint and characteristic drinking inscription, “One Pot more and then, why what then, why another Pot.” On the other side and front, within one continuous border, is a blacksmith busy at his forge, working the immense bellows with his left hand, and holding the iron in the fire with his right; while in front is a youth standing by the anvil waiting, as a “striker”; tools and other things lying about; and the inscription, “Thos. Burton, Winster, 1778.” This jug was made at the Cock-pit Hill Works, for Mr. Thomas Burton, a blacksmith, of Winster, whose name it bears, and who is represented at his forge, and from his family passed into my own hands. It is engraved, Fig. 43. [Illustration: Fig. 43.] Another excellent example belonged to my friend, the late Mr. Lucas. It is a teapot, of the same kind of ware, and bears on one side the words, “Harper for ever fow play and now fair dealing”--probably in commemoration of the contested election of 1768, when Sir Henry Harpur was defeated by Godfrey Clarke, Esq. DERBY CHINA.