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Title: History of lace
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878 Jourdain, Margaret Dryden, Alice
Subjects: Lace and lace making
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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Old Spanish Pillow-Lack. by one Simon Chatelain, a Huguenot, about 1596, in return for which good services he received more protection than his advanced opinions warranted. Colbert, the coming minister in 1662, guaranteed to Simon his safety—a boon already refused to many by the intolerant spirit of the times. He died in 1675, having amassed a large fortune. That the fabric prospered, the following entry in the wardrobe accounts of the Duke de Ponthievre, 1732, gives proof: Un bord de Point d'Espagne don de Paris, a fonds de Eighty children and grandchildren attended his funeral in defiance of the Edict of 19th Sept., 1664, and were heavily fined.—La France Pro- fesfante, par ^I. M. Haag. Paris.1846-59. ^^ Garderobe de S. A. S. Mgr. le Duede Penthie\Te. Arch. Nat. K. K. 390-1. ^^lOS-^c? Plate XXXI.
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PORTRAIT OP THE DUCHESSE DE MONTPENSIER, INFANTA OF SPAIN, SHOWING MANTILLA. Middle of nineteenth century. M. de Versailles. To face page 100. SPAIN loi reseau. France, writes Anderson, exports much lace into Spain. The sumptuary law of 1723 has taken away, writes the author of two thick books on Spanish commerce, all pretence for importing all sorts of point and lace of white and black silk which are not the manufactures of our kingdom. The Spaniards acted on Lord Verulams policy—that foreign superfluities should be prohibited for by so doing you either banish them or gain the manufacture. But towards the middle of the eighteenth century there are notices of constant seizures of vessels bound from St. Malo to Cadiz, freighted with gold and silver lace. The Eaale, French vessel, taken by Captain Carr, in 1745, bore cases to the value of £150,000. In 1789 we also read that the exports of lace from the port of Marseilles alone to Cadiz exceeded £500,000, and the author of the Apendice a l

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