1. The hills of the Cotswolds are where the long-wooled “Cotswold” breed of sheep originated. 2. A Tudor doorway was revealed when a modern fireplace in the front room of the Talbot Hotel was knocked out in the 1980s. 3. Stroudwater refers to the area in and around the town of Stroud, Gloucestershire, where there was a booming woolen industry. 4. Victoria History of Gloucestershire, edited by Nicholas Herbert et al., vol. 11 (London: Oxford University Press for the University of London Institute of Historical Research, 1976). 5. Nigel Spry and Harold Wingham, “Talbot Hotel, Tetbury,” Glevensis, The Gloucester and District Archaeological Research Group Review, no. 19 (1985): 28–30. 6. The full list of occupations is transcribed by Madge Paterson and Ernie Ward in Ashton Keynes, A Village With No History (Chirkbank, Shropshire: Keith Cowley, 1986), p. 120. 7. “Cistercian” ware is the term given to blackware vessels made in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and commonly found near the sites of Cistercian monasteries in England. 8. Arnold R. Mountford, “The Marquis of Granby Hotel Site, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs.,” City of Stoke-on-Trent Museum Archaeological Society Report No. 7 (Stoke-on-Trent: City Museum and Art Gallery, 1975). 9. A similar, three-handled cup is in the Troy D. Chappell Collection. Troy D. Chapell, “An Adventure with Early English Pottery,” in Ceramics in America, edited by Robert Hunter (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England for the Chipstone Foundation, 2001), p. 188, fig. 1, and fragments of similar cups have been found on early-seventeenth-century settlements in the Chesapeake region. A similar mug, commonly known as a “tyg,” is illustrated by Ivor Noël Hume in If These Pots Could Talk: Collecting 2,000 Years of British Household Pottery (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England for the Chipstone Foundation, 2001), p. 129, fig. VI.16a. 10. Robert Plot, The Natural History of the Countie of Stafford-shire (Oxford, 1686), p. 123. 11. Arnold. R. Mountford and F. Celoria, “Some Examples of Sources in the History of 17th Century Ceramics,” Journal of Ceramic History, no. 1 (Stafford, Eng.: George Street Press, 1968), p. 18. 12. F. S .C. Celoria and J. H. Kelly, “A Post-medieval Pottery Site with a Kiln Base Found off Albion Square, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent,” City of Stoke-on-Trent Museum Archaeological Society Report No. 4 (Stoke-on-Trent: City Museum & Art Gallery, 1973). J. H. Kelly and S. J. Greaves, “The Excavation of a Kiln Base in Old Hall Street, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs,” City of Stoke-on-Trent Museum Archaeological Society Report No. 6 (Stoke-on-Trent: City Museum and Art Gallery, 1974). J. H. Kelly, “A Rescue Excavation on the Site of Swan Bank Methodist Church, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England,” City of Stoke-on-Trent Museum Archaeological Society Report No. 5 (Stoke-on-Trent: City Museum and Art Gallery, 1973). 13. Eileen Gooder, “The Finds from the Cellar of the Old Hall, Temple Balsall, Warwickshire,” Post-Medieval Archaeology, vol. 18 (1986): 173–81. David Barker and Mary Holland, “Two Post-medieval Pit Groups from Stafford,” Staffordshire Archaeological Studies, vol. 3 (1986): 110. Mary J. Kershaw, “An 18th Century Pit Group from Stafford,” Staffordshire Archaeological Studies, vol. 4 (1987): 80. 14. A “WR” marked mug is illustrated by Gordon Elliott in John and David Elers and their Contemporaries (London: Jonathan Horne Publications, 1998), pl. 7A. 15. Arnold R. Mountford, The Illustrated Guide to Staffordshire Salt-glazed Stoneware (London: Barrie and Jenkins, 1971), pl. 55, right. Ivor Noël Hume, If These Pots Could Talk, p. 199, fig. IX.24. 16. Robert R. Hunter, Jr., “English Delft From Williamsburg’s Archaeological Contexts” in John C. Austin, British Delft in the Colonial Williamsburg Collection (Williamsburg, Va.: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and Jonathan Horne, 1994). Al Luckenbach, “Ceramics from the Edward Rummey/Stephen West Tavern, London Town, Maryland, Circa 1725,” in Ceramics in America, edited by Robert Hunter (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England for the Chipstone Foundation, 2002). 17. See Kevin Fryer and Andrea Shelley, “Excavation of a Pit at 16 Tunsgate, Guildford, Surrey, 1991,” Post-Medieval Archaeology, vol. 31 (1997): 139–230, and Jacqueline Pearce, “A Late 18th-Century Inn Clearance Assemblage from Uxbridge, Middlesex,” Post-Medieval Archaeology, vol. 34 (2000): 144–86. 18. Kathleen Bragdon, “Occupational Differences Revealed in Artifact Assemblages,” in Documentary Archaeology in the New World, edited by Mary C. Beandry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), pp. 83–91.