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No. 59.] 



Saturday, December 14. 1850. 



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CONTENTS. 



Notes ^ — 



Rim- 



The First Paper-mill in England, by Dr. E. F. 

 bault .----.. 



Specimens of Foreign English _ . - - 



Folk Lore: — May-dew — Piskies — The Dnn Cow — 

 Lady Godiva — ** Can da plera nieler)r cera" - 



Minor' Notes: — Circidation of the Blood — Origin of 

 the Word •• Culprit"— Collar of SS. — The Singing of 

 Swans— Sir Thomas Herljert's Memoirs — Portraits 

 of Stevens and Cotton and Bunyan — Sonns't : At- 

 tempting to prove that Black is White — Nicholas 

 Breton's Fantasticks . . » » - 



Queries : — 



The Wise Men of Gotham .... 



Herstmonceux Castle _ _ _ , . 



Minor Qupries : — Yorksliire Ballads — Ringing a Hand- 

 bell before a Corpse — Chnrch of St. Saviour, Canter, 

 bury — Mnck Beggnr's Hall — Beatrix Lady 'I'albot — 

 English Prize F.ssays — Rev Joseph Blanco White — 

 History of tlie Inqni-ition — Lady Deloraine — Speke 

 Family —Pope's Villa - Armorial Bearings — Passage 

 fr .ra Tennyson — Meaning of " Sauenap" — Hoods 

 worn by Doctors of the University of Cambrid^ie — 

 Euclid and Aristotle — Ventriloquism — Faiiningus, 

 the King's Whisperer — Frances Lady N'orto:i — 

 Westminster Weilding — Stone's Diary — Dr. King's 



Pnem of "The Toast" — " .Anima Magis " &c Tlie 



Adventures of Peter Wilkins — Translations of the 

 Talmud — Torn by Horses — The Marks *, f, t, &c. 



— Blackguard ...... 



REPLtEs: — 



Church History Society, by S. R. Maitland 

 Defender of the Faith, by W. S. Gibson ... 

 Meaning of Jezebel ..... 



Socinial Boast, liy J. R. Beard .... 

 Replies to Mirmr Queries: — The Konig stuhl atRheuze 



— Mrs. Tempest — Caleixlar of .Sundays in Greek and 

 Romish Churches — The Conquest — Thruscross — 

 Osnaburgh Bishopric —Nicholas Ferrar— Butcher's 

 Blue Dress — Chaucer's Portrait by Occleve — Lady 

 Jane of Westraorelaud — Gray and Dodsley - 



Miscellaneous : — 



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Notes on Books. .S.ales, Cat.ilognes, &c. 

 Roirks and Odd Volinnes Wanted 

 Notices to Correspondents 

 Advertisements ... 



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THE FIRST PAPER-MILL IN ENGLAND. 



In the year 1.188, a paper-mill was establislicd 

 at Dartford, in K(Mit, by .John Spilman, " ji^weller 

 to the Queen." The particulars of tiiis mill are 

 recorded in a poem hy Thomas Churchyard, 

 published shortly after its foundation, under the 

 following title : — 



" A description and plaync discourse of paper, and 



the whole benefits that paper biing.s, with rehearsall, 

 and setting foorth in \erse a paper-myll built near 

 Darthforth, by an high Germaine, called Master Spil- 

 man, jeweller to the Queene's Majyestie." 



The writer says : 



" (Then) be that made for us a paper-mill, 

 Is worthy well of love and worldes good will, 

 And thougb his name be Spill-man, by degree, 

 Yet Hi'lp-ma.n now, he shall be calde by mee. 

 Six hundred men are set at work by him. 

 That else might starve, or seeke al)roade their bread; 

 Who now live well, and go full brave and trim. 

 And who may boast thei/ are with paper fed." 



In another part of the poem Churchyard adds r 



" An high Germaine he is, as may be proovde^ 

 In Lyndoam Bodenze, borne and bred. 

 And for tliis mille, may heere be truly lovde, 

 And praysed, too, for deep device of head." 



It is a common idea that this -was the first paper- 

 mill erected in England; and we find an intelligent 

 modern writer, I\lr. J. S. Burn, in his History of 

 the Foreign Refugees, repeating the same erroneous 

 stateinent. At page 262. of his curious and in- 

 teresting work, he says : 



" Tlie county of Kent has been long famed for its 

 manufacture of paper. It was at Dartford, in this 

 county, that paper wasjirst made in England." 



But it is proved beyond all possibility of doubt 

 that a paper-mill existed in England almost a 

 century before the date of the establishment at 

 Dartford. In Henry VII.'s Housefwld Booh, we 

 have the followin<j : — 



" 1498. For a rewarde geven at the paper-mylne, 

 16s. 8r/." 



Again : — 



" 1499. Geven in rewarde to Tate of the Rlylne, 

 6s. S.I." 



And in Bartholomeus de Proprietafilms Rerum, 

 printed by VVynkyn de \\'orde in 14!).'), mention 

 is nuiile of a paper-mill near Stevenage, in the 

 county of Hertford, belonging to John Tatk the 

 younger, which was undoubtedly the " niyinc " 

 visited by Henry Vil. 



The water-mark used by John Tate was an 

 eight-pointed star within a double circle. In the 



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