Note 23 — Chapter III · ELERS AND ART.
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A list of those who joined the “Association to defend and avenge King William” in 1696 is preserved at the Record Office. Among 100 names given in Stoke-on-Trent, which included Hanley, Shelton, Longton, &c., occur side by side the names of Joshua Twiford and Robert Astbry. Is it possible that even then they had their pot-banks side by side, as tradition says, on the knoll where Shelton Church now stands?