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HISTORY OF LACE.

and 108), are from a portrait formerly in the library of theSorbonne, now transferred to Versailles, of Fisher, Bishop ofRochester, Cardinal Fisher, as he is styled—his cardinal’s hatarriving at Dover at the very moment the head that was to wearit had fallen at Tower Hill.

Fig. 107.

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Fi*l)or, Bishop of Rochester. + 1535. Muspc NutionaU*, Vorsaill. s.

About this time, too, lace gradually dawns upon us in thechurch inventories. Among the churchwardens’ accounts ofSt. Mary-at-Hill, date 1554, we find entered a charge of 8s. formaking “ the Bishopp’s (boy bishop) myter with stuff and lace.” 3C

Fig. 108

Fisher, Bishop of Rochester. Musee National?, Versailles.

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The richly laced corporax cloths and church linen are sent to bewashed by the “ Lady Ancress,” an ecclesiastical washerwoman,who is paid by the churchwardens of St. Margaret’s, Westminster,

36 We read too of u 3 kyreheys y* was women, and given to be Bold for the good

given to the kyrk wash,'* large as a of the impoverished church, for which the

woman’s hood worn at a funeral, highly churchwardens of St. Michael, Spurr

ornamented with the needle by pious Gate, ^ ork, received the sum of 5s.