| Description | Writer: Burton, Abraham, sawyer, of Canterbury, Kent
While working near the cathedral was injured by a falling stone. A Dutchman, Fineux Boreele, living in Canterbury or its vicinity, taught him how to produce and dye thread. He asked the dean and chapter for a loan for buying a 'mill' and flax. He has been lent half the money and asks for the remaining half. In another hand, a note that the cathedral is paying 'for the compassing of his business of a Beadsman at Whitehall' and that no further payment will be made. |