latin de 'tæniola.'"
"Laqueus, enlassements de diverses couleurs, galons imitation de ces
chaînes qui les Romains faisoient peindre, dorer et argenter, pour
les rendre plus supportables aux illustres malheureux que le sort
avoit réduit à les porter."--_Traité des Marques Nationales._ Paris,
1739.
[852] "Fine white or nun's thread is made by the Augustine nuns of Crema,"
writes Skippin, 1631.
From the Great Wardrobe Accounts the price appears to have been half
a crown an ounce.
"Eidem pro 2 li. 4 unc.' fili Sororis, ad 2s. 6d. per unciam, 4l.
10s."--Eliz. 34 & 35.
[853] State Papers Domestic. Eliz. Vol. 84. The sum total amounts to
4,287.
[854] See BURGUNDY. "The naturalized French residing in this country are
Normans of the district of Caux, a wicked sort of French, worse than
all the English," writes, in 1553, Stephen Porlin, a French
ecclesiastic, in his _Description of England and Scotland_.
[855] 1559. Oct. 20. Proclamation against excess of apparel.--State
Papers Dom. Eliz. Vol. vii.
1566. Feb. 12.--_Ibid._ Vol. xxxix.
1579. Star Chamber on apparel.
[856] State Papers Dom. Eliz. Vol. xxiii. No. 8.
[857] _Ibid._ Vol. xlvii. No. 49.
[858] _Ibid._ Vol. viii. No. 31.
[859] The value of thread imported amounts to £13,671 13s. 4d.
[860] Walsingham writes: In opening a coffer of the Queen of Scots, he
found certain heades which so pleased certain ladies of his
acquaintance, he had taken the liberty to detain a couple.
[861] "A mantel of lawn cutwork wrought throughout with cutwork of
'pomegranettes, roses, honeysuckles, cum crowns.'"
"A doublet of lawn cutwork worked with 'lez rolls and true loves,'
&c."--G. W. A. Eliz. Last year.
[862] New Year's Gifts. By the Lady Shandowes. 1577-8.
[863] Marquis of Northampton.
[864] Lady Carew. "A cushyn of fine cameryk edged with bone lace of Venice
sylver."
[865] "Laqueus de serico Jeano"--(Genoa). G. W. A. Eliz. 30-1.
[866] 1571. _Revels at Court._ Cunningham.
Some curious entries occur on the occasion of a Masque called "The
Prince" given at court in 1600:--
"For the tooth-drawer:
"To loope leace for his doublet and cassacke, 8s.
"For leace for the corne-cutters suite, 7s.
"For green leace for the tinkers suite, 2s.
"For the mouse-trapp-man:
"6 yards of copper leace to leace _is_ cloake, at 1s. 8d., 10s.
"The Prophet merely wears fringe, 2 Ruffes and cuffes, 3s. 10d."
The subject of the Masque seems lost to posterity.
[867] Lady Chandos, jun. "A cushyn cloth of lawne, wrought with white
worke of branches and trees edged with white bone worke wrought with
crownes."--New Year's Gifts. 1577-8.
[868] 1572. _Revels at Court._
[869] In the possession of Mrs. Evans of Wimbledon.
[870] Sir Gawine Carew. "A smock of cameryke wrought with black work and
edged with bone lace of gold."
Lady Souche. "A smock of cameryke, the ruffs and collar edged with a
bone lace of gold."
The Lady Marquis of Winchester. "A smock of cameryke wrought with
tanny silk and black, the ruffs and collar edged with a bone lace of
silver."--New Year's Gifts. 1578-9.
[871] "A bearing cloth," for the Squire's child, is mentioned in the
_Winter's Tale_.
[872] Many of these Christening robes of lace and point are preserved as
heirlooms in old families; some are of old guipure, others of
Flanders lace, and later of Valenciennes, or needle-point. The bib
formed of guipure padded, with tiny mittens of lace, were also
furnished to complete the suit.
[873] In 1584-5 Queen Elizabeth sends a most wonderful apron to be washed
and starched, of cambric, edged with lace of gold, silver, and
in-grain carnation silk, "operat' super oss'," with "pearl buttons
pro ornatione dict' apron."--G. W. A. Eliz. 26 & 27.
"A handkerchief she had,
All wrought with silke and gold,
Which she, to stay her trickling tears,
Before her eyes did hold."
--"Ballad of George Barwell."
[875] New Year's Gift of Lady Radcliffe. 1561.
[876] New Year's Gift of Lady St. Lawrence.
[877] Surtees' Wills and Inv. "Though the luxury of the court was
excessive, the nation at large were frugal in their habits. Our
Argentine of Dorset was called 'Argentine the Golden,' in
consequence of his buckles, tags, and laces being of gold. Such an
extravagance being looked on as a marvel in the remote hamlets of
the southern counties."
[878] Hence ruffles, diminutive of ruffs. "Ruff cuffs" they are called in
the G. W. A. of James I., 11 & 12.
[879] Stowe's Chron.
[880] Endless are the entries in the Gt. W. Acc. for washing, starching
and mending. The court laundress can have had no sinecure. We find
"le Jup de lawne operat' cum stellis et aristis tritici Anglice
wheateares" (Eliz. 42 & 43), sent to be washed, starched, etc. A
network vail "sciss' totum desuper cum ragged staves." (Leicester's
device. _Ibid._ 29 & 30.) A diploid' (doublet) of cut-work
flourished "cum auro et spangles" (_Ibid._), and more wonderful
still, in the last year of her reign she has washed and starched a
toga "cum traine de la lawne operat' in auro et argento in forma
caudarum pavorum," the identical dress in which she is portrayed in
one of her portraits.
[881] "Eidem pro un ruff bon pynned sup' le wier Franc' c[=u] rhet' aur'
spangled, 70s."--Eliz. 42 & 43.
[882] Gt. W. Acc. Eliz. 33 & 34.
[883] "B.: Where's my ruff and poker?"
"R.: There's your ruff, shall I poke it?"
"B.: So poke my ruff now."--Old Play by P. Dekker. 1602.
Autolycus, among his wares, has "poking-sticks of steel."
"Poked her rebatoes and surveryed her steel."--_Law Tricks._ 1608.
[884] Middleton's Comedy of _Blurt, Master Constable_.
[885] _Or, the World's Folly._ 1605.
[886] Stowe.
[887] _Ibid._
[888] Therefore she wore "chin" ruffs.
"Eidem pro 2 sutes de lez chinne ruffs edged cu' arg., 10s."--Eliz.
42 & 43.
[889] Ben Jonson. _Every Man Out of His Humour._ 1599.
[890] Lady Cromwell. "Three sutes of ruffs of white cutwork edged with a
passamayne of white."
Lady Mary Se'm'. "3 ruffs of lawne cutwork of flowers."
[891] "They are either clogged with gold, silver, or silk laces of stately
price, wrought all over with needleworke, speckeled and sparkeled
here and there with the sunne, the moone, the starres and many other
antiques strange to beholde. Some are wrought with open worke donne
to the midst of the ruffe, and further some with close worke, some
with purled lace so closed and other gewgawes so pestered, as the
ruff is the leest parte of itself."--Stubbe's Description of the
Cut-work Ruff.
[892] _Anatomie of Abuses._ 1583.
[893] "Eidem pro 3 dozin laquei fact' de crine brayded cum lez rising
puffs de crine, ad 36s. le dd., £5 8s."--Eliz. 31 & 32.
The entry occurs frequently.
In _Ibid._ 87 & 38 is a charge "pro 4 pirrywigges de crine," at 16s.
8d. each.
[894] In the G. W. A. of the last year of her reign, Elizabeth had a
variety of devices in false hair. We have:--
"Eidem pro 200 invencionibus factis decrine in forma lez lowpes et
tuftes," at 6d. each; the like number in the form of leaves at 12d.;
12 in form of "lez Peramides," at 3s. 4d.; 24 of Globes, at 12d.,
with hair by the yard, made in lowpes, "crispat' curiose fact',"
curle rotund', and other wonderful "inventions."
[895] "Your trebble-quadruple Dædalian ruffes, nor your stiffe necked
Rebatoes that have more arches for pride to row under than can stand
under five London Bridges."--_The Gul's Hornebooke_, by T. Deckar.
London, 1609.
[896] Beaumont and Fletcher. _Nice Valour._
[897] _Ibid._ _The Blind Lady._ 1661.
[898] 1641.
[899] Called by James I. "the King of Preachers." Ob. 1621
[900] In the _Dumb Knight_, 1608, a woman, speaking of her ruff, says:--
"This is but shallow. I have a ruff is a quarter deep, measured by
the yard."
[901] See the portraits in the National Portrait Gallery of Sir Dudley and
Lady Carleton, by Cornelius Janssens, of the Queen of Bohemia, by
Mirevelt, and of the Countess of Pembroke, by Mark Geerards. In
Westminster Abbey, the effigies of Queen Elizabeth and Mary Queen of
Scots, on their tombs.
[902] _Every Man Out of His Humour_, 1599.
Again, in his _Silent Woman_, he says:--
"She must have that
Rich gown for such a great day, a new one
For the next, a richer for the third; have the chamber filled with
A succession of grooms, footmen, ushers,
And other messengers; besides embroiderers,
Jewellers, tire-women, semsters, feather men,
Perfumers; whilst she feels not how the land
Drops away, nor the acres melt; nor foresees
The change, when the mercer has your woods
For her velvets; never weighs what her pride
Costs, Sir."
[903] "Second Acc. of Sir John Villiers, 1617-8." P. R. O.
"150 yards of fyne bone lace for six extraordinary ruff's provided
against his Majesty's marriage, at 9s., 67s. 10d."--Extraordinary
Expenses. 1622-6. P. R. O.
[904] State Papers Dom., Jac. I. Vol. iii., No. 89. P. R. O.
[905] Jasper Mayne. 1670.
[906] "Mistris Turner, the first inventresse of yellow starch, was
executed in a cobweb lawn ruff of that color at Tyburn, and with her
I believe that yellow starch, which so much disfigured our nation
and rendred them so ridiculous and fantastic, will receive its
funerall."--_Howel's Letters._ 1645.
[907] State Papers Dom., James I. Vol. cxiii. No. 18.
[908] We read that in 1574 the Venetian ladies dyed their lace the colour
of saffron. The fashion may therefore be derived from them.
"He is of England, by his yellow band."--_Notes from Black Fryers._
Henry Fitzgeffery. 1617.
"Now ten or twenty eggs will hardly suffice to starch one of these
yellow bandes."--Barnaby Rich. _The Irish_ _Hubbub, or the English
Hue and Cry._ 1622.
Killigrew, in his play called _The Parson's Wedding_, published in
1664, alludes to the time when "yellow starch and wheel verdingales
were cried down"; and in _The Blind Lady_, a play printed in 1661, a
serving-man says to the maid: "You had once better opinion of me,
though now you wash every day your best handkerchief in yellow
starch."
[909] _La Courtisane à la Mode, selon l'Usage de la Cour de ce Temps._
Paris, 1625.
[910] Carlo, in _Every Man Out of His Humour._ 1599.
[911] "Eidem pro 29 virg' le opere sciss' bon' Italic', ad 35s., £68
5s."--Gt. W. A. Jac. I. 5 & 6.
[912] _The New Inn._
[913] _Advice to Sir George Villiers._
[914] See _Parliamentary History of England._
Sir Giles was proceeded against as "a monopolist and patentee," and
sentenced to be degraded and banished for life.
[915] Speech in Parliament. _Rushout Papers._ Vol. xi., p. 916.
[916] "The office or grant for sealing bone lace was quashed by the King's
proclamation, 1639, dated from his manour of York."--_Verney
Papers._
[917] B. M. _Bib. Lands._ 172, No. 59.
[918] 1604. Sept. 27. Patent to Ric. Dike and others to make Venice gold
and silver thread for 21 years.--State Papers Dom., Jas. I. Vol. ix.
48.
1604. Dec. 30. Lease of the customs on gold and silver
thread.--_Ibid._ Vol. x.
1605. Feb. 2. The same. _Ibid._ Vol. xii.
1611. May 21. Patent to Ric. Dike renewed.--_Ibid._ Vol. lxiii. 9.
In the same year (June 30) we find a re-grant to the Earl of Suffolk
of the moiety of all seizures of Venice gold and silver formerly
granted in the fifth year of the King.--_Ibid._ Vol. lxiv. 66.
In 1622 a lease on the customs on gold and silver thread lace is
given to Sir Edward Villiers.--_Ibid._ Vol. cxxxii. 34.
[919] _Ibid._ Vol. cxxi. 64.
[920] _Ibid._ Vol. cxxxii. 34.
[921] In 1624 King James renews his prohibition against the manufacture of
"gold purles," as tending to the consumption of the coin and bullion
of the kingdom.--_Foedera_, Vol. xvii., p. 605.
[922] Petition. April 8, 1623.--State Papers, Vol. cxlii. 44. See Chap.
xxx.
[923] "Twoe payer of hande rebayters," _i.e._, cuffs.
[924] In the P. R. O. (State Papers Dom., James I. 1603, Sept. Vol. iii.
No. 89) is "A Memorandum of that Misteris Jane Dru[=m]onde her
recyte from Ester Littellye, the furnishinge of her Majesties Linen
Cloth," a long account, in which, among numerous other entries, we
find:--
"It. at Basinge. Twenty four yeardes of small nidle work, at 6s. the
yearde, £7 4s.
"More at Basinge. One ruffe cloth, cumbinge cloth and apron all
shewed with white worke, at 50s. the piece, £7 10s.
"It. one pece of fine lawin to bee a ruffe, £5.
"Item, for 18 yeards of fine lace to shewe the ruffe, at 6s. the
yearde, £5 8s.
"Item, 68 purle of fair needlework, at 20 pence the purle, £5 15s.
4d.
"Item, at Winchester, the 28th of September, one piece of cambrick,
£4.
"Item, for 6 yards of fine purle, at 20s., £6.
"Item, for 4 yards of great bone lace, at 9s. the yard, 36s.
Queen Anne has also a fair wrought sark costing £6, and a cut-work
handkerchief, £12, and 2 pieces of cut-work, ell wide and 2 yards
long, at £2. the length, etc.
[925] _Lady Audrye Walsingham's Account._ 1606.--P. R. O.
[926] Mary, her third daughter, died 1607, not two years of age. Mrs.
Greene quotes from the P. R. O. a note of the "necessaries to be
provided for the child," among which are six large cambric
handkerchiefs, whereof one is to be edged with "fair cut-work to lay
over the child's face"; six veils of lawn, edged with fair bone
lace; six "gathered bibs of fine lawn with ruffles edged with bone
lace," etc. The total value of the lace and cambric required for the
infant's garments is estimated at £300.--_Lives of the Princesses of
England._ Vol. vi., p. 90.
[927] England is rich in monumental effigies decorated with lace--too many
to enumerate. Among them we would instance that of Alice, Countess
of Derby, died 1636, in Harefield Church, Middlesex, in which the
lace is very carefully sculptured.--Communicated by Mr. Albert
Hartshorne.
[928] 1620-1. We have entries of "falling bands" of good cambric, edged
with beautiful bone lace, two dozen stitched and shagged, and
cut-work nightcaps, purchased for James I., in the same account,
with 28s. for "one load of hay to stuff the woolsacks for the
Parliament House."--G. W. Acc. Jac. I. 18 to 19.
In the same year, 1620, an English company exported a large quantity
of gold and silver lace to India for the King of Golconda.
[929] _Malcontent._ 1600.
[930] Extraordinary expenses, 1622-26. P. R. O.
[931] "2nd Acc. of Sir J. Villiers. 1617-18." P. R. O.
[932] Gt. W. A. Jac. I. 6 to 7.
[933] Taylor. 1640:--
"The beau would feign sickness
To show his nightcap fine,
And his wrought pillow overspread with lawn."--Davies. _Epigrams._
[934] "Acc. of Sir Lyonell Cranfield (now Earl of Middlesex), late Master
of the Great Wardrobe, touching the funeral of Queen Anne, who died
2nd March, 1618 (_i.e._ 1619 N. S.). P. R. O.
[935] About this time a complaint is made by the London tradesmen, of the
influx of refugee artizans, "who keepe theire misteries to
themselves, which hath made them bould of late to device engines for
workinge lace, &c., and such wherein one man doth more among them
than seven Englishmen can doe, soe as theire cheape sale of those
commodities beggareth all our English artificers of that trade and
enricheth them," which becomes "scarce tolleruble," they conclude.
Cecil, in consequence, orders a census to be made in 1621. Among the
traders appears "one satten lace maker."
Colchester is bitterly irate against the Dutch strangers, and
complains of one "Jonas Snav, a Bay and Say maker, whose wife
selleth blacke, browne, and white thredde, and all sorts of bone
lace and vatuegardes, which they receive out of Holland. One Isaac
Bowman, an Alyen born, a chirurgeon and merchant, selleth hoppes,
bone lace, and such like, to the great grievance of the free
burgesses."
A nest of refugee lace-makers, "who came out of France by reason of
the late 'trobles' yet continuing," were congregated at Dover
(1621-2). A list of about five-and-twenty "widows, being makers of
Bone lace," is given, and then Mary Tanyer and Margarett Le Moyne,
"maydens and makers of bone lace," wind up the catalogue of the
Dover "Alyens."
The Maidstone authorities complain that the thread-makers' trade is
much decayed by the importation of thread from Flanders.--_List of
Foreign Protestants resident in England._ 1618-88. Printed by the
Camden Society.
[936] Jasper Mayne.
[937] Beaumont and Fletcher.
[938] "Valuables of Glenurquhy, 1640." Innes' _Sketches of Early Scotch
History_.
[939] Collars of Hollie worke appear in the Inventories of Mary Stuart.
[940] "Thomas Hodges, for making ruffe and cuffes for his Highness of
cuttworke edged with a fayre peake purle, £7."--2nd Account of Sir
J. Villiers. Prince Charles. 1617-18. P. R. O.
"40 yards broad peaked lace to edge 6 cupboard cloths, at 4s. a
yard, £8."--_Ibid._
[941] "Seaming" lace and spacing lace appear to have been generally used
at this period to unite the breadths of linen, instead of a seam
sewed. We find them employed for cupboard cloths, cushion cloths,
sheets, shirts, etc., throughout the accounts of King James and
Prince Charles.
"At Stratford-upon-Avon is preserved, in the room where Shakspeare's
wife, Anne Hathaway, was born, an oaken linen chest, containing a
pillow-case and a very large sheet made of homespun linen. Down the
middle of the sheet is an ornamental open or cut-work insertion,
about an inch and a half deep, and the pillow-case is similarly
ornamented. They are marked E. H., and have always been used by the
Hathaway family on special occasions, such as births, deaths, and
marriages. This is still a common custom in Warwickshire; and many
families can proudly show embroidered bed linen, which has been used
on state occasions, and carefully preserved in old carved chests for
three centuries and more."--_A Shakspeare Memorial._ 1864.
[942] _The Truth of the Times._ W. Peacham. 1638.
[943] State Papers Dom. Jas. I. Vol. lxxii. No. 28.
[944] Warrant on the Great Wardrobe. 1612-13. Princess Elizabeth's
marriage.
[945] Frankfort fair, at which most of the German princes made their
purchases.
[946] German Correspondence. 1614-15.--P. R. O.
We find among the accounts of Col. Schomberg and others:--
"To a merchant of Strasbourg, for laces which she had sent from
Italy, 288 rix-dollars." And, in addition to numerous entries of
silver and other laces:--
"Pour dentelle et linge karé pour Madame, 115 florins."
"Donné Madame de Caus pour des mouchoirs à point couppée pour
Madame, £4."
"Une petite dentelle à point couppé, £3," etc.
Point coupé handkerchiefs seem to have been greatly in fashion. Ben
Jonson, "Bartholomew Fair," 1614, mentions them:--
"A cut-work handkerchief she gave me."
[947] See _Snelling's Coins._ Pl. ix. 8, 9, 10.
[948] _Ibid._ Pl. ix. 5, 6, 11.
[949] Evelyn, describing a medal of King Charles I., struck in 1633, says
he wears "a falling band, which new mode succeeded the cumbersome
ruff; but neither did the bishops or the judges give it up so soon,
the Lord Keeper Finch being, I think, the very first."
[950] In 1633, the bills having risen to £1,500 a year, a project is made
for reducing the charge for the King's fine linen and bone lace,
"for his body," again to £1,000 per annum, for which sum it "may be
very well done."--State Papers, Chas. I. Vol. ccxxxiv. No. 83.
[951] "Paid to Smith Wilkinson, for 420 yards of good Flanders bone lace
for 12 day ruffes and 6 night ruffes 'cum cuffes eisdem,' £87 15s.
"For 6 falling bands made of good broad Flanders lace and Cuttworks
with cuffs of the same, £52 16s."--Gt. W. A. Car. I. 6 = 1631.
[952] See G. W. A., Mich., 1629, to April, 1630.
[953] _Twelfth-Night._
[954] G. W. A. Car. I. The Annunciation 9 to Mich. 11.
[955] _Ibid._ 8 and 9.
[956] State Papers Dom. Charles I. Vol. cxlix. No. 31.
[957] In a letter to Mr. Edward Nicholas, Sec. of the Admiralty, March
7th, 1627 (afterwards Sec. of State to Chas. II.).--St. P. D. Chas.
I. Vol. cxxiii. 62.
Among the State Papers (Vol. cxxvi. 70), is a letter from Susan
Nicholas to her "loveing Brother," 1628. About lace for his band,
she writes: "I have sent you your bootehose and could have sent your
lase for your band, but that I did see these lasees which to my
thought did do a greddeale better then that wh you did bespeake, and
the best of them will cost no more then that which is half a crowne
a yard, and so the uppermost will cost you, and the other will cost
18 pence; I did thinke you would rather staye something long for it
then to pay so deare for that wh would make no better show; if you
like either of these, you shall have it sone desptch, for I am
promise to have it made in a fortnight. I have received the monie
from my cousson Hunton. Heare is no news to wright of. Thus with my
best love remembred unto you, I rest your very loving sister,
"SUSANNE NICHOLAS.
"I have sent ye the lase ye foyrst bespoke, to compare them
together, to see which ye like best."
[958] In 1620 an English company exported a large quantity of gold and
silver lace to India for the King of Golconda.
[959] W. Peacham, _Truth of the Times_. 1638.
Hamlet says there are
"Two Provençal roses on my regal shoes."
"When roses in the gardens grow,
And not in ribbons on a shoe;
Now ribbon-roses take such place,
That garden roses want their grace."
--"Friar Bacon's Prophesie." 1604.
"I like," says Evelyn, "the boucle better than the formal
rose."--_Tyrannus, or the Mode._
[960] This proclamation is dated from "our Honour of Hampton Court, 30th
April, 1635."--Rymer's _Foedera_. T. 19, p. 690.
[961] When Anne of Austria was suspected of secret correspondence with
Spain and England, Richelieu sent the Chancellor to question the
Abbess of the Val-de-Grâce with respect to the casket which had been
secretly brought into the monastery. The Abbess (_Vie de la Mère
d'Arbouse_) declared that this same casket came from the Queen of
England, and that it only contained lace, ribbons, and other
trimmings of English fashion, sent by Henrietta Maria as a present
to the Queen.--_Galerie de l'Ancienne Cour._ 1791.
[962] State Papers Dom. Vol. cxxiii. No. 65.
[963] "Rhodon and Iris, a Pastoral." 1631.
[964] "Ornatus Muliebris Anglicanus." 1645.
[965] "You must to the Pawn (Exchange) to buy lawn, to St. Martin for
lace."--_Westward Ho._ 1607.
"A copper lace called St. Martin's lace."--Strype.
[966] Taylor, "Whip of Pride." 1640.
[967] In _Eastward Ho_, 1605, proud Gertrude says: "Smocks of three pound
a smock, are to be born with all."
[968] "Bartholomew Fair." 1614.
"She shewed me gowns and head tires,
Embroidered waistcoats, smocks seam'd thro' with cut-works."
--Beaumont and Fletcher, "Four Plays in One." 1647.
"Who would ha' thought a woman so well harness'd,
Or rather well caparison'd, indeed,
That wears such petticoats, and lace to her smocks,
Broad seaming laces."
--Ben Jonson, _The Devil is an Ass_. 1616.
[971] A suite of russet "laced all over with silver curle
lace."--"Expenses of Robt. Sidney, Earl of Leicester. Temp. Chas.
I."
"This comes of wearing
Scarlet, gold lace and cut-works; your fine gartering
With your blown roses."
--_The Devil is an Ass._
[973] _Notes from Black Fryers._
[974] Jasper Mayne. "Amorous War." 1659.
[975] "The Little French Lawyer."
[976] _Memoirs._
[977] _The Cromwell Family._
[978] Sir Philip Warwick. 1640.
[979] At the Restoration, it was removed from the Abbey and hung out of
the window at Whitehall, and then broken up and destroyed.
[980] 1661, Nov. 20. State Papers. Dom. Charles II. Vol. xliv. P. R. O.
[981] "To William Briers, for making the Colobium Sindonis of fine lawn
laced with fine Flanders lace, 33s. 4d.
"To Valentine Stucky, for 14 yards and a half of very fine Flanders
lace for the same, at 18s. per yard, £12 6s. 6d."--"Acc. of the E.
of Sandwich, Master of the G. W. for the Coronation of King Charles
II. 23 April, 1661." P. R. O.
[982] In the G. W. A. for 29 and 30 occurs a curious entry by the Master
of the Great Wardrobe:--"I doe hereby charge myself with 5,000
Livres by me received in the realm of France for gold and silver
fringes by me there sold, belon^g to a rich embroidered Bed of his
said Majesty, which at one shilling and sevenpence [per] lib.
English. Being the value of the Exchange at that time, amounts to
£395 16s. 8d.
"(Signed) R. MONTAGUE.
"May 28, 1678."
[983] 14 Car. II. c. 13. Statutes at large. The Acts of Charles II. date
from the death of his father; so the year of the Restoration, 1660,
is counted as the thirteenth of his reign.