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Show 1 PAPERMAKIN operated a mill in Hertford, the watermark being in the form o an eight-pointed star enclosed in a double circle, resembling a car wheel. John Tate was a mercer in London, and the son of Joh Tate who was Lord-m yor in 1473, Tate, the younger, died i S T ‘The arms of Niirnberg watermark 1507, his will containing several references o the paper mill the first place he bequeathed to Thomas Bolls of Hertford, moche whit paper or other paper as shal extende to the summe o xxvi 5. vilj d . . . owte of my paper mill at Hertford." Then h directed his exccutors to dispose of the paper mill, "with all th goods, woods, pastures, medes, with all the commodities concerning the said myll to the moost advantage." Finally, in leaving t his eldest son Robert, all his lands in Hertfordshire and Essex, th paper mill was excluded: "M, paper myll with the appurtenaunces to be always excepted and to be sold." ‘The Tate pape mill was evidently short lived, as there is no evidence of its.existence before 1495 or after 1498. The following lines appear in th Wynken de Worde English edition of Bartholomeus: De proprietatibus Rerum showing without doub that the paper used in thi book was ma KIC in the John Tat And John Tate the yonger 10,c ot b brok th he !.m e Englonde do aper thynn at no in our cngly» this bok is pr)mc Inn Digital Imag © 2004 University of Utah. All rights reserved |