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Show f‘,«,f'\ " e BB A Fig 5 T b The UlnanRotetgen Stromer willM from o wood-eut in "Liter Chyonicapim it St il i o ooTis is he cores pitir make no paper for anyone excep myself and my heirs ‘as 1 migh order and that he would not teac the art of paper-making fo anyon except when 1 wished. But whe the ten years are passed he ca make pager for himsel but for n one else and he may then teac those who make paper for him but for no one clse, as long a he lives. These men, like Stromer, wer Germans but with the skilled Italian workmen he felt an extra precaution necessary so he took the to a Procurator, a sort of lega agent, named Cunradus and befor whom _the affidavits were made with Stromer's sons, brother an brother-in-law as witnessés. Th contract. with the Italians read "In the year 130 Franciscus d Marchia, and Marcus his brothe and Bartholomeus his manservan pledged their loyalty to me_an swore on oath to the Holy Saint that they would be faithful to m and to my heirs and that the would ot teach the art of papermaking to anyone in all the German lands this side of the mountains of Normandy The precautions taken by Stromer to guard his own interests b obtaining the services of the Ttalians exclusively for himself, rathe excited their suspicions. They fel if they were so indispensable to th success of the paper mill that i would be better for them to control the enterprise than for Stro Fig. a-The Stromer' mer 1o be the master. With thi idea in view the Italians tried t hamper the paper mill on ever side--no doubt thinking that Stromer would become weary of th whole venture and lease the mil to them at a low figure for the to do with as they liked. Continuing with his narrative, Strome says, " "the Italians were mos troublesome and_disobedient _th frst year and did as they fike and caused me many dificultie and would not suffer the thir wheel to run at all. My first tw wheels ran_eighteen stampers an these were left idle a great part o the time as the foreign workme wished fo produce as little.pape as possible so as to_force me t let them have the will for a ren of 200 guklen a year, This would not agree to do and the then offered to give me also a amount of paper. 1 understoo from this that they wished to rui me and deprive me of the pape Tn medieval times the employer had great authority over hi workmen and Stromer ~availe himself of this privilege as @ master and in his diary he says, "I the year 1391 on the twentieth o August, I took Franz and hi brother Marcus and shut them i the tower over behind the wate il from ean herm old wou e orGonbof anhedearlycenturs e pape s ilusratio SpHionc © 2005 Marriott Library Un U teent |