Huguenots in England (1800) [ People ]
… It is recorded in the Craftsman, No. 910, that King William III. granted the Huguenots from France, refuge in England, (Biscoc and others) a patent for esablishing … granted to them other privileges: but, from a want of unrelaxed perseverance, economy, and industry, their undertaking met with the same fate that often attends new establifhments: it went to ruin, notwithstanding its success in the first few years; and the manufacture of Paper in general decayed, until the year 1713, when Thomas Watkin, a stationer, in London, brought it in a short time into great repute and perfection; and it is a merit attributable …
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