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higli value on every endeavour to further English manufactures,and whatever had such recommendation would be prefeired byhim to works of possibly higher perfection made in any othercountry. 15 From this period Newport Pagnel is cited as one ofthe most noted towns in the kingdom for making bone lace. 16

At the end of the last century, the Revolution again drove

Fig. 120.

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many of the poorer French to seek refuge on our shores, as theyhad done a century before; and we find stated in the “AnnualRegister” of 1794: “A number of ingenious French emigrantshave found employment in Bucks, Bedfordshire, and the adjacentcounties, in the manufacturing of lace, and it is expected through}the means of these artificers considerable improvements will beintroduced into the method of making English lace.”

Fig. 119 (see p. 341) represents the Buckinghamshire trolly;the designation given to lace in which the pattern is outlined bya thicker thread. The bobbins that hold the trolly threads are

15 “Annual Register.”

'* See “Biitanuia Depicta,” by John 0>ien, Gent. (Loud. 1764), and others.