The reason for the _suppression_ of the work here examined is, in part at least, correctly expressed by Papebrochius: "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, That now in our Englysshe this boke is printed inne." A rare poem, an early specimen of blank verse, entitled _A Tale of Two Swannes_, written by William Vallans (who was, I believe, a native of Ware), and printed in 1590, supplies us with the information that the mill belonging to John Tate was situated at Hertford. One of the notes in the poem states that, "in the time of Henry VIII., viz. 1507, there was a paper-mill at Hertford, and belonged to John Tate, whose father was Mayor of London." The author, however, is here mistaken in his chronology, as Henry VIII. did not begin to reign till 1509. The extract from the privy purse expenses of Henry VII., under the date of May 25, 1498, "for rewards geven at the Paper Mylne, 16s 8d," most clearly has reference to this particular mill, as the entry immediately preceding shows that the king went to Hertford two days before, viz. on the 23rd of May. In answer to HERTFORDIENSIS, who asks for information as to its site, I quote a passage from Herbert's edition of Ames's _Typographical Antiquities_, under the description of the work of Bartholomeus, printed by Wynkyn de Worde. Herbert says, vol. i. p. 201.:--