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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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ace camefrom Florence, Venice, and Genoa, and became an article ofcommerce, kxs. Act was then passed to prevent the buyersof such commodities from selling for a pound weight a packetwhich does not contain twelve ounces, and the inside of thesaid gold, silver, and thread lace was to be of equal greatnessof thread and goodness of colour as the outside thereof. ^ The Italians were in the habit of giving short lengths,gold thread of bad quality, and were guilty of sundry othermisdemeanours which greatly excited the wrath of thenation. The balance was not in Enorlands favour. It wasthe cheatino^ Venetians avIio first l)roulit over their oldlace into Eno;land. A warrant to the Keeper of the (jlreat Wardrobe, in the ^^ Privy Purse Expenses of Eliza- for ten yecars, and that of Richard is hetli of YorJc, and Wardrohe Accounts continued by 19 Henry VII. for twenty of King Edward IV., by Sir H. years more. Nicolas. 15 4 jjen. VII. = 1488-9. ^* 1 Rich. III. renews 3 Edw. IV. Plate LXXV.
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To face page 288. ENGLAND TO QUEEN ELIZABETH 289 eighteenth year of King Henrys reign/^ contains an orderfor a mauntel lace of blewe silk and Venys gold, to bedelivered for the use of our right dere and well-belovedCosyn the King of Eomayne —Maximilian, who was madeKnight of the Garter. ^^ If lace was really worn in the days of Henry YH., it wasprobably either of gold or silk, as one of the last Acts of thatmonarchs reign, by which all foreign lace is prohibited, and those who have it in their possession may keep it and wearit till Pentecost, ^^ was issued rather for the protection ofthe silk-women of the country than for the advantage ofthe ever-complaining workers of the mysteries of thread-work. On the 3rd of October, 1502, his Queen Elizabeth ofYork pays to one Master Bonner, at Langley, for laces,rybancls, etc., 405.; and again, in the same year, 386\ Id. toDame Margrette Cotton, for hosyn, laces, sope, and othernecessaries for the Lords Henry Courtenay, Edward, andthe Lady Mar

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