Rare 17th-century paper cuttings unearthed at Hackney’s historic Sutton House

A pile of papers found under the floorboards of a Tudor manor house in Hackney back in the 1980s but never studied have revealed that some of them are very rare examples of 17th-century papercutting.
The 500-year-old Sutton House in Hackney was built for one of Henry VIII’s statesmen and over its lifetime it was home to different families and used for different purposes including a girls’ school in the 17th century.
During the National Trust’s renovation of the house in the lat