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charged to Mr John Fowler, Prestonpans, we find the following items taxed, and the amount of taxation charged upon them :—



AGRICULTURAL SHOW AT PRESTONGRANGE.
June 16th 1880 was a real "red letter day" in a very wide surrounding district. The Agricultural Show on that day was being held for the first time within the Prestongrange policies, and work in every shape and form, and all around, was brought to a stand for that day.

CHAPTER XI.

THE ANCIENT POTTERIES.

Ancient Potteries -Dr Struthers, etc. —Lord Lovat's Story—Prestonpans China—Sugar Refinery—Vitriol Works—The Pressgang—A Distillery —A Flour Mill—Gordon's Pottery—Thomson & Fowler's Potteries— Rombach & Cubie's Potteries, etc. —Can, Tile, and Brick Works—Chemical Works—French Invasion Scare—The Pykemen—The Soap Works—Belfield's Pottery—Magnesia Works.
THE late Dr Struthers, who read much, sought much, wrote much, and whose papers ought to have been invaluable for a work of this sort had they not been so ruthlessly destroyed at his decease, thus wrote on 9th July 1874 concerning the old potteries of the district: —
" There were potteries, with glassworks adjoining them, at or near Morison's Haven, during the last quarter of the 17th century.
" At a subsequent date a large pottery work, with a stone set in the outer circle of a kiln and the date 1762 inscribed thereon, was removed twenty years ago. Its site was a little west of where the Police Station stands. I am inclined to think it had been built on the ruins of an earlier erection of the same sort. At all events another near it was in active operation previous to 1741, when the Lord Lovat of Carlyle's autobiography fame brought his second son, Alexander, to be educated at the Grammar School of Prestonpans.
" The present Lord Lovat has in his possession what is believed by competent judges to be the earliest specimen of china made in Scotland. And his lordship's account to me of its history, during a conversation with him at Beaufort, was that it was specially ordered by his young relative while at Prestonpans, and that the glaze applied to it was formed out of flints collected by him on Strichen Hill, the seat of his ancestry in those days, during the vacations.
" His lordship, who is seventy years of age, says that the
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