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which, she writes, “ I experienced once when I set fire to my lacenight cornet, which was burned to the very head without singeing asingle hair”—good Queen Mary of Modena, who shone so brightlyin her days of adversity, died, “ selon les regies,” coeffed in likefashion.

With this notice we finish the Saint-Germain reign of KingJames II.

WILLIAM ITT.

“ Long wigs,

Steinkirk cravats.”

Congreve, Love for Lore.

In 1098, the English parliament passed another act “ forrendering the laws more effectual for preventing the importationof foreign Bone lace, Loom lace, Needlework Point, and Outwork,” 27with a penalty of 20s. per yard, and forfeiture. This act causedsuch excitement among the convents and beguinages of Flandersthat the government, at that time under the dominion of Spain,prohibited, by way of retaliation, the importation of English w'ool.In consequence of the general distress occasioned by this edictamong the woolstaplers of England, the act prohibiting the im-portation of foreign lace into England was repealed, 28 so far asrelated to the Spanish Low Countries. England was the loser bythis custom-house war. 29

Dress, after the Revolution, partook of the stately sobrietyof the house of Nassau, but lace was extensively worn. QueenMary favoured that wonderful erection, already spoken of in ourchapter on France, 30 the tower or fontange, more generallycalled, certainly not from its convenience, the “ commode,"with its piled tiers of lace and ribbon, and the long hangingpinners, celebrated by Prior in his “ Tale of the Widow and herCat

“ He scratch'd the maid, he stole the cream,

He tore her best lac’d pinner.’’

Their Flanders lace heads, with the engageantes 31 or ruffles, and

*’ 9 & 10 Will. III. = 1697-8.

11 & 12 Will. III. =1698-9.n Smith’s “ Wealth of Nations.”

3 » See p. 138.31 See p. 139.

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