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Title: History of lace
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878 Dryden, Alice Jourdain, Margaret
Subjects: Lace and lace making -- History
Publisher: London : Sampson Low, Marston
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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Old Spanish Pillow-Lace. by one Simon C-hatelain, a Huguenot, about 159G, in returnfor which good services he received more protection than hisadvanced opinions warranted. Colbert, becoming ministerin 1662, guaranteed to Simon his safety—a boon alreadyrefused to many by the intolerant spirit of the times. Hedied in 1675, having amassed a large fortune. That thefabric prospered, the following entry in the wardrol)eaccounts of the Duke de Ponthievre, 1732, gives proof :-^ Un bord de Point dEspagne dor de Paris, a fonds de ^^ Eighty cliildren and grandchil- testantr, par M. )\I. Haag. Paris, <lren attended his funeral in defiance 1846-59. of the Edict of 19th Sept., 1664, and -3 Garderobe de S. A. S. Mgr. le Due were heavily fined.—La France Fro- de PeuthievTe. Arch. Nat. K. K. 390-1. Plate XXXI.
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Portrait of tiik Duchesse de IMontpensier, Infanta of Spain, siiowinc; :\Iantilla.iMiddle of nineteenth centmv. SI. de Versailles, To fact 2>aijc 100. SPAIN loi reseau. France, writes Anderson, exports much laceinto Spain. The sumptuary hiw of 1723 has taken away, whitesthe author of two thick books on Spanish commerce, allpretence for importing all sorts of- point and lace of whiteand black silk wliich are not the manufactures of our king-dom. The Spaniaixls acted on Lord Verulams policy—thatforeign superfluities should be prohilnted ^—for by so doingyou either banish them or gain the manufacture. Buttowards the middle of the eighteenth century there arenotices of constant seizures of vessels bound from St. Maloto Cadiz, freighted with gold and silver lace. The Eaale,French vessel,taken by Captain Carr, in 1745, bore cases tothe value of £150,000. In 1789 we also read that theexports of lace from the port of Marseilles alone to Cadizexceeded £500,000,- and the author of the

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