_Paper-making in England_ (Vol. v., p. 83.).--I do not pretend to know
anything of the history of paper-making; but it may be well to send you
a passage from Fuller's _Worthies_ (Vol. i. p. 224., ed. Nuttall), which
lately fell in my way:
"Paper is entered as a manufacture of this county
[Cambridgeshire], because there are mills nigh Sturbridge fair,
where paper was made in the memory of our fathers. Pity the making
thereof is disused: considering the vast sums yearly expended in
our land for paper out of Italy, France, and Germany, which might
be lessened, _were it made in our nation_."