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|year=1901

|page=195

|url=https://archive.org/details/lifereminiscence00john/page/195/mode/1up}}</ref> According to the ''Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins'', there is no basis in fact for this statement.<ref>{{Citation |last=Cresswell |first=Julia |title=fool |date=2021-07-22 |work=Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780198868750.001.0001/acref-9780198868750-e-2108?rskey=J4p3HH&result=2161 |access-date=2024-02-08 |publisher=Oxford University Press |language=en |doi= |isbn=978-0-19-886875-0}}</ref>{{efn|[[Charles I of England|Charles I]] was executed on 30 January 1649, which would have been the cause of this supposed change. There were only around 40 mills making hand-made paper in England between 1601 and 1650, with 23 of them within 30 miles of London.<ref name="Hills" >{{cite book

{{cite book

|last=Cresswell

|first=Julia

|title=Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins

|edition=3rd

|publisher=Oxford University Press

|date=2021

|isbn=9780192639370

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3HA3EAAAQBAJ&dq=watermark+royal+arms&pg=PT502}}</ref>{{pn|date=July 2021}}{{efn|[[Charles I of England|Charles I]] was executed on 30 January 1649, which would have been the cause of this supposed change. There were only around 40 mills making hand-made paper in England between 1601 and 1650, with 23 of them within 30 miles of London.<ref name="Hills" >{{cite book

|last=Hills

|first=Richard Leslie