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  <dc:title>Manuscript, 'The art of making parchment, vellum, glue etc' by John Beale</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Account of how Matthew Wills of Yeovil [Somerset, England] makes parchment and vellum (which Beale believes is the best in England at 5 shillings a roll). He uses calf skin for vellum and skins of ewes or rams, rather than wethers, for parchment.

Subject: Industry / Trade

Read to the Royal Society on 25 May 1664.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>14 December 1663</dc:date>
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