"Nec porro processum in opere reliquo, quod mox apparuit futurum seminarium litium infinitarum, quibus sustinendis nec unus, nec plures forent pares, quantavis auctoritate subnixi."
J. MENDHAM.
THE FIRST PAPER-MILL IN ENGLAND, AND PAPER-MILL NEAR STEVENAGE.
(Vol. ii., p. 473.; Vol. iii., p. 187.)
DR. RIMBAULT, in his Note "On the First Paper-Mill in England," after alluding to the errors of various writers on the subject, adds, "In Bartholomeus de Proprietatibus Rerum, printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1495, mention is made of a paper-mill near Stevenage, in the county of Hertford, belonging to John Tate the younger, which was undoubtedly the 'mylne' visited by Henry VII." Now this statement itself needs correction. The English translation of the work of Bartholomeus (De Glanvilla) informs us merely of the fact of John Tate the younger having lately in England made the paper which was used for the printing of this book. The lines, which occur at the end of the volume, are as follows:
"And also of your charyte call to remembraunce
The soule of William Caxton, first prynter of this boke
In Laten tonge at Coleyn [Cologne] hysself to avaunce,
That every well-disposed man may theron loke:
And JOHN TATE the younger joye mote [may] he broke,
Which late hathe in Englond doo make this paper thynne,