Show how got its iti name every ever ono one probably has wondered why by a certain size paper familiar to a 11 who write Is c called tied fool foolscap seap As early as the year 1301 water markt marks were employed by paper manufacturers to distinguish their products ono one grade of paper much in demand during the middle ages resembling what we call foolscap and known by that name had for its water mark a tools head bead wearing a cap and bells belle the mark appeared on this grade of paper until the middle of the seventeenth century when tho the figure of britannia was substituted by the english s and ther other marks by other paper makers no one has however changed the name of the paper so we have to this day the |