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

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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: