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Show OL ~PAPERMAKIN 10 between Rittenhouse and Bradford, dated 16977 the prices of paper were given, "ye writing pape at 20 shillings (the ream) and ye brown paper a 6 shillings pr. ream. The weekly wage of a worker in a paper mil at the time of the first mill established in England about 1494, was something like two or three shillings a weel. While this is now but a pittance i must be remembered that at that time a shee could have been purchased for a little over on and six pence. In England, during the early par of the eighteenth century, a vatman earned fro fifteen to eighteen shillings a week. This was high wage compared with other trades as a bookbinder at that time received but twelve shilling a week and was required to work from six in th morning until nine at night which was three hour longer than a papermaker's day The following interesting account which give alittle light on the working of a millin the middl eighteenth century, was taken from an Englis book of trades published in 1747: "Papermalsin requires much water and a great deal of room a therefore is altogether carried on at water-mills i the country, which undertakings are not numerous. It goes through various operations and diver hands before itis completed, and the moulding part which is the principle, requires a nice bhand and good eye. They take with an apprentice fiveor te Digital image© 2004 arriot Library, Universty o Utah. All right reserved |