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that King Christian sends to his chamberlain, with an autographletter, ordering him to cut out of it four collars of the same sizeand manner as Prince Ulrik’s Spanish. They must contrive alsoto get two pairs of manchettes of the same.

In the museum of the the palace at Rosenborg are still preservedsome shirts of Christian IV., trimmed with Schleswig lace of greatbeauty (Fig. 102), evidently from a Brabant pattern, and in hisportrait, which hangs in Hampton Court Palace, the lace on hisshirt is of similar texture.

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Shirt collar of Christian IV. Castle of Rosenborg, Copenhagen.

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It w'as in the early part of this monarch’s reign 3 that thecelebrated Golden Horn, so long the chief treasure of theScandinavian Museum at Copenhagen, was found by a younglace-maker on her way to her work. She carried her prize to theking, and with the money he so liberally bestowed on her she wasenabled, says tradition, to marry the object of her choice.

1020. Nov. 11. 1’uiil 71 specie dollars to a lace seller for lace for the use of thechildren.

Paid 33 specie dollars and 18 skill. I.ubcck money, to the sameman for lace and cambric.

1025. May 10. Paid 21 rixd. for lace.

„ Dec. 20. 1’aid 25 specie dollars 15 skill. Lubeck money, for taffetas andluce.

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