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About this time a complaint is marieby the London tradesmen, of the influxof refugee artisans, “ who keepe theiromisteries to themselves, which hath madethem bouhl of late to device engines forworkingo lace, &c., and such wherein oneman doth more among ttiem than sevenEnglishmen can doe, soe as theire cheapesale of those commodities beggareth allour English artificers of that trade andenrieheth them,” which becomes “ scarcetolleruble,” they conclude. Cecil, inconsequence, orders a census to be madein 1621. Among the traders appears“ one satten lace maker.”

Colchester is bitterly irate against the

Dutch strangers, and complains of one“ Jonas Snav, a Bay and Say maker,whose wife sellcth blncke, browne, andwhite thredde, and all sorts of bone laceand vatuegardes, which they receive outof Holland. One Isaac Bowman, anAlyen bom, a chirurgeon and merchant,selleth lioppes, bone lace, and such like,to the great grievance of the free bur-gesses.”

A nest of refugee lace-makers, “ whocame out of France by reason of the late‘ trebles ’ yet continuing,” were congre-gated at Dover (1G21-2). A list of aboutfive-and-twenty “widows, being makersof Bone lace,” is given, and then Mary