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From: "Andrew Sellon" <>
Subject: Re: [HWE] Mulberry Trees & Silkworms
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 17:10:52 -0000
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Jan -

Thank you, and others, for answering points about the Huguenot silk
industry. It was only after posting my query that I recalled, as a very
small boy, being shown a silk moth chrysalis and having the fundamentals
explained to me. Obviously an early lesson well remembered!

Strangely enough the owner of the mulberry trees I mentioned had moved from
Spitalfields to the edge of Clerkenwell in 1641, and is still in residence.
I also have to apologise about the date I gave for Clerkenwell being next to
fields in the mid-1800s, it was of course some fifty years or so
earlier that the march outwards began. (I was muddling the dates of two
clerics, Rev. Sydney Smith, Canon of St. Paul's, and Rev. William
('Silver-tongued') Sellon, of Clerkenwell).

Yours Aye Andrew Sellon East Anglia
I have been lame for some time by a fall from my horse. He had behaved so
well and so quietly that I doubled his allowance of corn and in return he
kicked me over his head in the most ignominious, and contemptuous manner.
This should be a warning to you against raising servants' wages. Rev. Sydney
Smith 1771-1854, Canon of St. Paul's.

From:
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> >From what I recall reading, the more prosperous silk merchants in
> Spitalfields had large gardens and did indeed plant mulberry trees for the
> purpose of feeding silkworms. <snip>


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