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XIV. Observations on Paper-Marks. By the Rev. Samuel Denne, F.A.S. In a Letter to Mr. Gough

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Not long since, when Mr. Thomas Fisher had an opportunity of examining sundry letters and other papers deposited in a room over the Town Hall in Rochester, he was induced to sketch the paper, or water-marks, as they are sometimes called. His fac similes of this kind are sixty-four[a]; of which two are from writings dated in 1473, seven from those of the sixteenth century, and the residue from those of the seventeenth, with an exception of one of the year 1712. There is not one that has a star of eight points within a double circle, the device of John Tate, supposed to have been the first Paper-maker in England, and who is recorded to have had, if I mistake not in the reign of Henry VII, a mill at Hertford [b].

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1796

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page 114 note [a] See Plates XV. XVI. XVII. XVIII.

page 114 note [b] Original. Letters, by John Fenn, esq. &c. Preface, page xx. note; and British Topography, vol. I. p. 4.82.

page 114 note [c] Plate XV. No 3 and 4.

page 114 note [d] VoL II. Pl. XIII. p. 41.

page 115 note [d] Plate XVII. No 31.

page 115 note [e] Ibid. No 33.

page 115 note [f] Ibid. No 34.

page 115 note [g] Plate XVIII. No 7.

page 115 note [h] Plate XVIII. No 46.

page 118 note [a] Plate XVII, No 39, 40.

page 118 note [b] Plate XVII. No 34. Plate XVIII. No. 45.

page 119 note [c] Plate XV. No 3, 4, and 13. Plate XVII. No 32.

page 119 note [d] Plate XVI. No 36.

page 119 note [e] Plate.XIX.

page 120 note [f] There is a chalice in Mr. Ord's Plate IV.

page 121 note [g] “And John Tate the yonger, joye mote hem broke,

Which late hathe in England doo make this paper thynne,

That now in our English this boke is prynted inne.”

page 122 note [b] Herbert, p. 4. note k.

page 123 note * Plate XX. I.

page 123 note † Ib. 4. 5.

page 124 note * Edit. Oxford, 1707, 8vo.

page 125 note * See his Autograph, Plate XX 2.

page 126 note * See his Autograph, Plate XX. 3.

page 129 note * See Plate XX. 4.

page 131 note * See Plate XX. 6.