Notes and Queries, Number 59, December 14, 1850

Notes and Queries, Number 59, December 14, 1850In the year 1588, a paper-mill was established at Dartford,...
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Notes and Queries, Number 59, December 14, 1850

Notes and Queries, Number 59, December 14, 1850

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Notes and Queries, Number 59, December 14, 1850

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Notes and Queries, Number 59, December 14, 1850

In the year 1588, a paper-mill was established at Dartford, in Kent, by John Spilman, "jeweller to the Queen." The particulars of this mill are recorded in a poem by Thomas Churchyard, published shortly after its foundation, under the following title: "A description and playne discourse of paper, and the whole benefits that paper brings, with rehearsall, and setting foorth in verse a paper-myll built near Darthforth, by an high Germaine, called Master Spilman, jeweller to the Queene's Majyestie." It is a common idea that this was the first paper-mill erected in England; and we find an intelligent modern writer, Mr. J.S. Burn, in his History of the Foreign Refugees, repeating the same erroneous statement. At page 262, of his curious and interesting work be says: 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 Household Book, we have the following: ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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