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قراءة كتاب Notes and Queries, Number 59, December 14, 1850
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| No. 59. | SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14. 1850. | Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. |
CONTENTS.
| NOTES:— | Page |
| The First Paper-mill in England, by Dr. E.F. Rimbault | 473 |
| Specimens of Foreign English | 474 |
| Folk Lore:—May-dew—Piskies—The Dun Cow—Lady Godiva—"Can du plera meleor cera" | 474 |
| Minor Notes—Circulation of the Blood—Origin of the Word "Culprit"—Collar of SS.—The Singing of Swans—Sir Thomas Herbert's Memoirs—Portraits of Stevens and Cotton and Bunyan—Sonnet: Attempting to prove that Black is White—Nicholas Bretons Fantasticks | 475 |
| QUERIES:— | |
| The Wise Men of Gotham | 476 |
| Herstmonceux Castle | 477 |
| Minor Queries:—Yorkshire Ballads—Ringing a Hand-bell before a Corpse—Church of St. Savior, Canterbury—Mock Beggar's Hall—Beatrix Lady Talbot—English Prize Essays—Rev. Joseph Blanco White—History of the Inquisition—Lady Deloraine—Speke Family—Pope's Villa—Armorial Bearings—Passage From Tennyson—Meaning of "Sauenap"—Hoods worn by Doctors of the University of Cambridge—Euclid and Aristotle—Ventriloquism—Fanningus, the King's Whisperer—Frances Lady Norton—Westminster Wedding—Stone's Diary—Dr. King's poem of "The Toast"—"Anima Magis" etc.—The Adventures of Peter Wilkins—Translations of the Talmud—Torn by Horses—The Marks *, †, ‡, &c.—Blackguard | 478 |
| REPLIES:— | |
| Church History Society, by S.R. Maitland | 480 |
| Defender of the Faith, by W.S. Gibson | 481 |
| Meaning of Jezebel | 482 |
| Socinian Boast, by J.R. Beard | 483 |
| Replies to Minor Queries:—The König stuhl at Rheuze —Mrs. Tempest—Calendar 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 Westmoreland—Gray and Dodsley | 484 |
| MISCELLANEOUS:— | |
| Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. | 485 |
| Books and Odd Volumes Wanted | 486 |
| Notices to Correspondents | 486 |
| Advertisements | 486 |
NOTES.
THE FIRST PAPER-MILL IN ENGLAND.
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."
The writer says:
"(Then) he that made for us a paper-mill,
Is worthy well of love and worldes good will,
And though his name be Spill-man, by degree,
Yet Help-man now, he shall be called by mee.
Six hundred men are set at work by him,
That else might starve, or seeke abroade their bread;
Who now live well, and go full brave and trim,
And who may boast they are with paper fed."
In another part of the poem Churchyard adds:
"An high Germaine he is, as may be proovde,
In Lyndoam Bodenze, borne and bred,
And for this 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, 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:
"The county of Kent has been long famed for its manufacture of paper. It was at Dartford, in this county, that paper was first 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 Household Book, we have the following:—
"1498. For a rewarde