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were already in use by the mid-17th century. In England, the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce offered premiums for sawmills in 1759; James Stansfield won the premium in 1760 by converting a fulling mill into a sawmill, and Charles Dingley built a Dutch-style wind-powered sawmill at Limehouse in 1767. Dingley's mill was attacked by sawyers in 1768, after which Parliament compensated him and made damage

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