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HISTORY OF LACE.

robes, 1 GOO, 46 is noted down to James I., “ One suit with cannonsthereunto of silver lace, shadowed with silk Milan lace.”

Again, among the articles furnished against the “ Queen’slying down,” 1 GOO, in the bills of the Lady Audrye Walsingham, 47is an entry of “ Lace, Milan fashion, for child’s waistcoat.”

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dress, prohibiting the wearing of gold and silver embroidery,specially forbids the use of all “ passement de Milan, ou fafon deMilan,” under a penalty of 1000 livres. 4S The expression, “ apoint de Milan,” occurs in the statutes of the passementiers ofParis. 49 _

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