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York; while the dependent islands of Man , 4 Wight , 5 and Jersey/’may be supposed to have derived their learning from the smugglerswho frequented their coast, rather than from the teaching of theProtestant refugees 7 who sought an asylum on the peaceful shoresof Britain.

craft, her produce a laoe of a amall edging, known in local parlance by (lielnzenge-shapod pattern (Fig. 118), that name of “ fourpenny spot.”earliest of all designs, nnd a narrow

Fig. 118.

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* Till its annexation to the crown, theIsle of Man was the great smugglingdepot for French laces. The tradersthen removed en maw to the ChannelIsles, there to carry on their traffic. Anidiot called “Pegthe Fly,”in Castletown,was some years since seen working ather pillow, on a summer’s evening, thelast lace-maker of the island. Isle of Manlace was a simple Valenciennes edging.

5 The so-called lace of the Isle of Wighthas been honoured by the patronage ofIter Majesty. The Princess Royal, re-ports the “ Illustrated News ” of May185(1, at the drawing-room, on her firstpresentation, wore a dress of Newportlace, her train trimmed with the same.

The weariness of incarceration, whenat Carisbrook, did not bring on the kingany distaste for rich apparel. Amongthe charges of 1G48, Sept, and Nov , wofind a sum of nigh 8001. for suits andcloaks of black brocade tabby, blackunshorn velvet, and black satin, all linedwith plush and trimmed with rich bonelace.

9 Luce-making was never the staplemanufacture of the Channel Islands ;

stockings and garments of knitted woolafforded a livelihood to the natives. Wehave early mention of these articles inthe inventories of James V. of Scotland,and of Mary Stuart; also in those ofHenry VIII. nnd Queen Elizabeth, inwhich last wo fiud (Gt. Ward. Ace. 28 &29) the charge of 20s. for a pair of “ Ca-lignrum nexnl’ de fncturn Garneseie,” theupper part and “ lez clocks ’’ worked insilk. At the beginning of the presentcentury, when the island was inundatedwith French refugees, lnce-mnking wasintroduced, with much success, into thepoor-house of St. Heliers. It formedthe favourite occupation of the Indies ofthe island, some of whom still retain thepatterns and pillows of their mothers.Of late years, many of the old raisedpoints have been imitated in “Jerseycrochet work.”

7 The Puritans again, on their part,transferred the fabric to the other side ofthe Atlantic, whore, says a writer of thelast century, “ very much fine lace wasmade in Long Island by the Protestantsettlers.”