Show substitute FOR ROYAL ARMS placing of cap and bells on english paper was the origin of the I 1 word foolscap 11 several explanations have been given of the meaning of the word foolscap b as applied to a certain class of 0 30 T paper one of the explanations is that when charles I 1 of england found ills his revenue short lie granted certain privileges amounting to monopolies and among those these was the manufacture of paper thi the exclusive right to was sol sold to certain parties who grow grew rich and enriched the government goern ment at din the expense of 0 those aho vho ho were obliged to use the paper at this time all ta paper bore in watermarks water marks RIS the royal arms the parliament under 0 to cromwell made a jest ot of this law and among other indignities to the memory of charles it was ordered that ire the royal arras arms J be removed from the ole paper and the fools cap and bells be substituted these aliese were in their turn he removed nahn ahe rump parliament was dismissed but paper for th the e sie wo of the parliaments journal still bears ig Is the name of foolscap 11 |