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Among the New Year’s gifts presented to Queen Elizabeth,we have from the Lady Paget “ a petticoat of cloth of goldstayned black and white, with a bone lace of gold and spangles,like the wayves of the sea;” a most astounding article, with otherentries no less remarkable, but too numerous to cite.

In the marriage accounts of Prince Charles 45 we have charged150 yards of bone lace 46 for six extraordinary ruffs and twelvepairs of cuffs, against the projected Spanish marriage. The lacewas at 9s. a yard. Sum total, 67Z. 10s. 47 Bone lace is mentionedin the catalogue of King Charles I.’s pictures, drawn up byVanderdort, 48 where James I. is described “ without a hat, in abone lace falling band.” 49

Setting aside wardrobe accounts and inventories, the termconstantly appears both in the literature and the plays of theseventeenth century.

Buy somo quoifs, handkerchiefs, or very good bone lace, mistress,”

cries the pert sempstress when she enters with her basket of wares,in Ureen’s “ Tu Qnoijue,” 50 showing it to have been at that timethe usual designation.

“ You taught her to make shirts and bone lace,”

says some one in the “ City Madam.” 51

Again, describing a thrifty wife, Loveless, in “ The ScornfulLady,” 52 exclaims—

“ She cuts cambric to a thread, weaves bone lace, and quilts balls admirably.

“ Laqueo . . . fact, super lcs bob-bins. ’—G. W.A. Eliz. 27 & 28. P. K. O.

“ Three peees teuiur bobbin.”— Ibid.Car. I. vi.

“ One pece of bobin lace, 2s.,” occursfrequently in the accounts of Lord Comp-Ion, afterwards Earl of Northampton,master of the wardrobe of Prince Charles.Roll, 1022-23, Extraordinary Expenses,uud others. P. It. O.

“ In the Ward. Acc. of his brotherPrince Henry, 1007, and the warrant tothe G. Ward., on his sister’s, the PrincessElizabeth’s, marriage, 1612-13, “bone”lace is in endless quantities.

Bobbin lace appears invariably dis-tinguished from bone luce, both beingmentioned in the same inventory. Itseems to have been sold by weight.

Would it specially refer to gold or silverwire and not to thread ?

Handle Holme, in his enumerationof terms used in arts, gives: “ Bone lace,wrought with pegs.”

The materials used for bobbins in Italyhave been already mentioned, p. 59,note “ s .

47 Lord Compton, “ ExtraordinaryExpenses of the Wardrobe of K. Charles,before and after ho was King.”— Roll,1622-26. P. K. O.

« An. 1635.

*• A miniature of old Hilliard, now inthe possession of his Grace the Duke ofHamilton.

50 1614.

11 Massinger, 1612.

57 Beaumont and Fletcher.