Jan. 24. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



Previously it may be as well to observe, that 

 Stadt am Hof is a town bordering on the imperial 

 city of Ratisbon, at or near the court, and Latin- 

 ized Pedepons as being at the foot of the bridge 

 over the Danube at that part. This book is evi- 

 dently the identical counterfeit before described, 

 with the mask cast aside by a new title-page, and 

 newly printed prefatory matter, in consequence of 

 a proposal fairly and literally to reprint the first 

 genuine Roman edition. I will just mention one 

 proof of the identity of this and the previous copy 

 in the body of the book. It occurs in the last 

 line of p. 239., where the word lunij has a stroke, 

 hy fault of the type, immediately after the word, 

 thus lunij) ; and this is found in both. This is 

 an accidental coincidence, not to be classed with 

 the purposed retention of false spelling. 



The Bergomi edition of 1608 is not in my pos- 

 session ; but I am well acquainted with it by actual 

 inspection. My first sight of it was afforded by my 

 friend the Rev. Richard Gibbings,who has published 

 a new edition of it, with an elaborate and very 

 finished preface, in 1837.* I have likewise seen 

 it at Mr. Pickering's, a copy which I presume 

 came from the dispersed library of the late Rev. 

 H. F. Lyte. That in the Bodleian I did not feel it 

 necessary to examine. I do, however, possess, 

 though not the original, a very correct, as appears, 

 facsimile of that volume, whether it was intended 

 as a counterfeit or not. The title, without any 

 addition, agrees exactly with that of the original, 

 as given by your Oxford correspondent. I con- 

 clude it to be not the original, from a distinct re- 

 collection that the engraving on the title-page there 

 is more rude and broken than in my copy ; and, 

 in the body of the work, some parts do not per- 

 fectly agree with Mr. Gibbings's reprint, not in 

 the contents of the pages, in some instances in the 

 middle portion, and in the frequent substitution 

 of the m and n for the superscript bar, signifying 

 one or other of those letters. My copy likewise 

 is bound together in vellum, with the Notitia Ind. 

 Lib. Expurg. of Zobelius, Altorfii, 1745. And, by 

 the bye, I should like to know whether, and 

 where, there is another copy of that treatise of 

 eighty pages in England ? 



I am happy in the present opportunity of recom- 

 mending to the attention of such students as U. U. 

 in the New World, a work of so much real value 

 and interest as Mr. Gibbings's edition of the Ber- 

 gomi edition of the Brasichellian Index; and 

 flatter myself that, by their aid and example, an 

 end will be piit in the mother country to the 

 incorrigible though simple practice of calling 

 every catalogue of condemned books expurgatory, 

 when the accuracy of the title, as far as Rome is 

 concerned, hangs upon the single thread of one 



* Copies may be had at Mr. Petheram's, 94. High 

 Holborn, London. r i;.;.^ • . ,i , . ., 



imperfect and withdrawn instance ; the not easily 

 numbered remainder being exclusively and ex 

 pressly prohibitory. 



The reason for the suppression of the work here 

 examined is, in part at least, correctly expressed 

 by Papebrochius : 



" Nee porro processum in opere reliquo, quod raor 

 apparuit futurutn setnitiarium litium infinitarum, qui- 

 bus sustinendis nee unus, nee plures forent pares, quan- 

 tavis auctoritate subnixi." 



J. Mendham. 



THE FIRST PAPER-MILL IN ENGLAND, AND PAPER- 

 MILL NEAR STEVENAGE. 



(Vol. ii., p. 473. ; Vol. iii., p. 187.) 



Dr. Rimbault, in his Note "On the First 

 Paper-Mill in England," after alluding to the 

 errors of various writers on the subject, adds, " lu 

 Bartholomeus de Proprietatibus Rerum, printed by 

 Wynkyn de Worde in 1495, mention is made of 

 a paper-mill near Stevenage, in the county of 

 Hertford, belonging to John Tate the younger, 

 which was undoubtedly the 'mylne' visited by 

 Henry VII." Now this statement itself needs 

 correction. The English translation of the work 

 of Bartholomeus (De Glanvilla) informs us merely 

 of the fact of John Tate the younger having lately 

 in England made the paper which was used for 

 the printing of this book. The lines, which occnt 

 at the end of the volume, are as follows : 

 " And also of your charyte call to remembraunce 



The soule of William Caxton, first prynter of this boke 



In Laten tonge at Coleyn [Cologne] bysself to 

 avaunce, 



That every well-disposed man may theron loke : i 



And John Tate the younger joye mote [may] ha 

 broke, 



Which late hathe in Englond doo make this paper 

 thynne. 



That now in our Englysshe this boke Is printed 

 inne." 



A rare poem, an early specimen of blank verse^ 

 entitled A Tale of Two Swannes, written by 

 William Vallans (who was, I believe, a native of 

 Ware), and printed in 1590, supplies us with the 

 information that the mill belonging to John Tate 

 was situated at Hertford. One of the notes ii| 

 the poem states that, " in the time of Henry VIIL, 

 viz. 1507, there was a paper-mill at Hertford, and 

 belonged to John Tate, whose father was Mayor 

 of London." The author, however, is here mis- 

 taken in his chronology, as Henry VIH. did not 

 begin to reign till 1509. The extract from the 

 privy purse expenses of Henry VII., under the 

 date of May 25, 1498, " for a rewarde geven at 

 the Paper Mylne, 16' 8'\" most clearly has refer- 

 ence to this particular mill, as the entry immor 

 diately preceding shows that the king went to 



