ROYAL PAPER MILL Pub of Tovil

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Paul Skelton

Earliest 1798-

Royal Paper Mill

Open 2020+

39 Tovil Hill

Tovil

01622 752095

https://whatpub.com/royal-paper-mill

Above postcard, date unknown, showing pub at the top of the hill by kind permission Roy Moore, http://www.kentphotoarchive.com.

Above postcard, date unknown. "Old English Gentleman" on the right, "Royal Paper Mill" on left.

Above photo 2008.

Above photo, March 2015, kindly sent by Brian Curtis.

Above painting date unknown by Eddie Tucker.

Above sign left, June 1995, sign right 2015.

With thanks from Brian Curtis www.innsignsociety.com.

Above map, 1896.

Mentioned in the song, "The Maidstone Landlords" in 1798 when it was named the "Paper Mill." I believe the pub gained the prefix "Royal" some time between 1830 and 1870. I have also seen reference to it known as the "Royal Papermakers Arms."

From the Kentish Gazette or Canterbury Chronicle, Friday 6 May, 1808.

Mr WRIGHT, Tovil, Maidstone: died 2 May, formerly landlord of the Royal Paper Mill public house.

The Evening Chronicle 26 September 1836 (Taken by them from Kent Herald.)

REPORTED MURDER OF A WOMAN BY HER HUSBAND.

A great sensation has been caused in the village of Tovil, near Maidstone, by a melancholy event which occurred there on Saturday evening last. The deceased was the second wife of a man named Covis, who is of a fierce and violent disposition. Three weeks after their marriage it is reported in the neighbourhood that she was heard to cry out "Murder," in consequence of his violent ill-treatment; and it is also said that he had often threatened to murder her. On Saturday night last the deceased came into Maidstone, and purchased some meat, which she carried home and cooked for her husband's supper. After supper they went upstairs to retire to rest, and shortly after the neighbours heard cries of distress proceeding from the house, as well as violent struggling, and a heavy fall. A number of persons collected round the door, which they burst open, and found Covis waiting to receive them, who threatened to knock down the first who attempted to enter. He, in fact, carried his threat into execution, but several other people rushed into the house, and the poor woman was found lying at the foot of the stairs, apparently dead. Being raised in the arms of one of the persons who had entered, she sighed once, and instantly expired. The inquest commenced on Monday evening at the "Royal Paper-Mill" Public-House, Tovil, before Mr. F. F. Dally, coroner, and a respectable jury. The house was surrounded by hundreds of people, anxiously awaiting the result, and the greatest excitement prevailed.

A number of witnesses were examined, but there were so many more to give testimony, that at a late hour the inquiry was adjourned.

Kent Herald.

South Eastern Gazette, 1 November 1853.

Death.

Oct. 24, at Tovil, Mr. William Sills, landlord of the "Papermaker’s Arms," (sic) aged 44 years.

South Eastern Gazette 24 December 1861.

THE BANKRUPTCY ACT, 1861. NOTICE OF SITTING FOR LAST EXAMINATION.

Samuel Turner, of Peel-street, Thornhills, Maidstone, in the county of Kent, out of business; previously of the "Royal Paper Mill Inn," Tovil, near Maidstone, in the county of Kent, licensed victualler, grocer, tailor, and general dealer, having been adjudged Bankrupt under a Petition for Adjudication of Bankruptcy, filed in the County Court of Kent holden at Maidstone, on the third day of December, 1861, a Public sitting for the said Bankrupt to pass his last Examination and make application for his Discharge, will he held before James 'Espinasse, Esq., Judge of the said Court, on the twenty-second day of January, 1862, at the Court at the sessions House, Maidstone, in the county of Kent, Eleven o'clock in the forenoon precisely, the day last aforesaid being the day limited for the said Bankrupt to surrender.

Mr. Frederick Scudamore, Registrar of the said County Court, is the Official Assignee, and Mr. Charles Morgan of Maidstone, is the Solicitor in the Bankruptcy.

The first meeting of Creditors has been duly held in the said Bankruptcy, and at the Public Sitting above mentioned Proofs of debts of Creditors who have not proved will be received ; and the said Bankrupt will be required to surrender himself to the said Court. and to submit himself to be examined, and to make a full disclosure and discovery of all his estate and effects and to finish his examination.

Frederick Scudamore, Registrar.

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