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there, but, to infer from the Great Wardrobe Account of Charles I.,the outwork of Sedan had then reached our country, and wasof great price. We find in one account, 31 a charge for six hand-some Sedan and Italian collars of cutwork, and for 62 yards ofneedlework purl for six pairs of linen ruffs,” the enormous sum of116?. 6s. And again, in the last year of his reign, he has “ sixhandsome Pultenarian Sedan collars of cut work,, with the sameaccompaniment of 72 yards of needlework purl, amounting to106?. 16s. 32 What these Pultenarian collars may have been, wecannot, at this distance of time, surmise; but the entries affordproof that the excellency of the Sedan cutwork was known inEngland. Lace was made in the seventeenth century at Sedan,Donchery, Charleville, Mezieres, and Troyes.

The thread manufacturers of Sedan furnished the materia]necessary for all the lace-workers of Champagne. Much pointde Sedan was made at Charleville, and the laces of this last-named town 33 w T ere valued at from four up to fifty livres the el ,and even sometimes at a higher rate. The greater part of theproduce was sold in Paris, the rest found a ready market inEngland, Holland, Germany, and Poland. 34 Pignariol c e aForce, writing later, says the manufacture of points and laces atSedan, formerly so flourishing, is now of little value.

The importance of the lace industry in Champagne, secomonly to that of Alenfon, naturally pointed it out as a fitting si efor the new manufacture of point de France; so we n e ^ n ’liheims, and Chateau-Thierry among the towns mentione indeclaration of 1665. In 1666, Colbert, by order of the *mg.writes to the governor of Sedan, enjoining him to take t e grea esprecautions against the malice of the dealers, who were m ehabit of having work executed at Venice which they so a courand in the kingdom as point de France, the work of <?c an.

Rkeirns, again, was the subject of a close coriesponc enc

General Hoguebert wrote to Colbert, on the 18th January 1665,

11 “ Eidem pro 6 divit Sedan et Italiceolaris open; sciss et pro 62 purles opereacno pro 6 par manic lintear eiadem, 1161.6g .”—Qi Ward. Acc. Car. I. ix. to si.V. R. O.

** “ Eidem pro 0 divit PultenarianSedan de opere sciss eolaris et pro 72purles divit opere aouo pro manic lintenreisdem, 1061.1 Gl. Ward. Acc. Car. 1.

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33 In 1700, there were several laconanufaetnrers at Charleville, the prin-ipal of whom was named Vigoureux.1 Hist, de Charleville,” Charleville, 1854.31 Saver)', ed. 1726.

33 “Description de In France,” ed.

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