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HISTORY OF LACE.

under the ban of the Covenanters, with a penalty of “ 500 merkstoties quo ties,” the wearing such vanities on liveries is strictlyforbidden; servants, however, are allowed to wear out their masters’and mistresses’ old clothes.

In 1674, his majesty, understanding that the manufacture of“ pearlin and whyt lace made of thread (whereby many peoplegain their livelihood) was thereby much prejudiced and impaired,declares that from henceforth it shall be free to all and everyperson within this kingdom to wear ‘ whyt lace,’ as well as theprivileged persons above mentioned.” Finding these exclusions

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of little or no avail, in January 1685 the act remits the wearingof lace, both native and foreign, to all folks living.

The dead now came under the scrutiny of the Scotch parlia-ment, who ordered all lace or “ poynt,” gold or silver, to be disusedat interments, under the penalty of 300 pounds Scots. 26

From the united effects of poverty, Covenanters, and legislation,after the departure of the court for England, luxury, small thoughit was, declined in Edinburgh.

It was not till 1680, when James II., as Duke of York, accom-

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