David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ In the manufacture of the paper every sheet must be accounted for, and it is a felony to manufacture paper like it. All kinds of precautions, in the way of counting and accounting, are used on the arrival of the paper in London, on its being stored, on its being delivered to the printer, and on its actual conversion into bank-notes. Each note circulates under the protection of the laws, “When a note returns to the Bank in Threadneedle Street, it dies.” “The registry of its death is taken by a system devised by my brother, Mr. William Smee.” ”

“ Wyndham Spencer Portal, the manufacture of the bank-note paper with the new water mark began, and the mills have been remodelled and enlarged in the most admirable manner, the only monument of refugee days, except the surname of Portal having been pictured thus:—
“The artizans and work-people live in neat and picturesque cottages adjoining the premises, and are occupants of the same dwellings formerly tenanted by their great-grand-fathers.” ”

“ All those Paper Mills called Laverstock Mills with the dwelling houses, cottages, gardens, yards, outlets, warehouses, drying rooms, and other buildings to the same belonging, together with all the millheads and the piece of ground lying between the two millheads, and the entire use of the rivers and streams of water for working the said mills — all which mills, dwelling houses, cottages, and premises contain 3 acres, 1 rood, and 18 perches, and are situated in the parish of Laverstock, on the north side of the turnpike road leading from Basingstoke to Andover. ”