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•' And John Tate the younger joye mote he broke, 

 Which late hathe in England doo make this paper thynne, 

 That now in our Englysshe this boke is printed inne." 



This book is said to be the first printed on paper of 

 English manufacture ; our principal supplies pre- 

 viously to this, and for some time afterwards, being 

 from France and Holland; and even so late as 1662, 

 paper-making in this country had made little pro- 

 gress. 



3rd. Henry YII. visited Hertford on the 23rd of 

 May, 1498, and in the privy purse expenses of this 

 sovereign occurs the following entry : — 



'' 1498. — May 25. For a reward given at 

 the Paper Mj/lne .... 16s. 8d." 



The " Express," October 9, 1855. Upon the autho- 

 rity of what Shakespeare has coined as part of Jack 

 Cade's charge against Lord Say, that he. Lord Say, had 

 ** contrary to the king, his crown, and dignity, built a 

 paper-mill;'* this is in the Second Part of Henry the 

 Sixth, Act iv. Scene 7, but is no proof that there was 

 a paper-mill in Henry the Sixth's reign, any more 

 than it is, that Lord Say either built or exercised any 

 kind of instrumentality in erecting any such building, 

 or that Jack Cade spoke so learnedly of "The King, 

 his crown, and dignity." 



