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78 HISTORY OF LACE. coloured embroidered laces, and its gold and silver points, liave always enjoyed a certain reputation. Of the latter, during the seventeenth century, we have constant mention in the wardrobe accounts and books of fashion of the French court. The descrip tion of the celebrated gold bed at Versailles, the interior lacings of the carriages, the velvet and brocade coats and dresses, “ cha- marres de Point d’Espagne,” the laces of gold and coloured silk, would alone fill a volume of themselves. 15 Narciso Felin, a writer of the seventeenth century, says there were at that time many women occupied in the making of lace of gold, silver, 10 and thread (Fig. 42), with a perfection equal to that of Spanish Flanders. Campany, another old author, carries the number of lace-makers to 12,000. The Spaniards, nevertheless, are said, in P. R. O., we have a charge for bobbin lace of Spanish silk, “ cum uii tag,” for the mantle, 10s. 8d. In a letter from Frestwich Eaton to Geo. Willingham, 1U31, the writer semis 1000 reals (25b), and in return desires him to send, together with a mastiff dog, some black satin lace for a Spanish suit.—State Papers, Domestic, Car. I. P. It. O. 1S 1697. Marriage of Mademoiselle and the King of Spain. The queen, says the “ Mereure,” wore “une mante de Point d’Espagne d'or, neuf aunes de long.” 1698. Fete at Versailles on the mar riage of the Due de Bourgogne. “ La Duchesse de Bourgogne portoit un petit tablier de Point d’Espngne de mille pistoles.”—Galerie lie Vancienne Cour, ou Me'm. des Begnes de Louis XIV. et Louis XV. 1788. 1722. Ball at the Tuileries. “ Tous les seigneurs otaicnt on habits de drap d’or ou d’urgent garnis de Points d’Es pagne, avec des noeuds d’f-paule, et tout l’ajustement h proportion. Les moindres otaient de velours, avec des Points d’Es pngne d’or et d’argent.”—Journal de Barbier, 1718-62. 1722. ‘‘J’ai vu en memo temps le carosso que le roi fait faire pour entrer dans Reims, il sera aussi d’une grande magnificence. Le dedans est tout garni d'un velours a ramage do Points d’Es pagne d’or.”—Ibid. 1731. Speaking of her wedding-dri ss, Willielmina of Bayreuth, the witiy sister of Frederick the Great, writes, “ Ma robe etoit d’une etoffe d’or fort riche, avec un Point d’Espagne d’or, et ma queue etoit de douze aunes de long ”—Me- moires. 1751. Fete at Versailles on the birth of the Duke of Bourgogne. The coats of the “gens de cour, en e'toffes d’or de grand prix ou en velours do toute cou- leurs, brode's or, on garnis de Point d’Espage d’or.”—Journal de Barbier. la In the reign of William and Mary, we find, in a laeeman’s bill of the queen, a charge for forty-seven yards of rich, broad, scalloped, embossed point de Spain ; and her shoes are trimmed with gold and silver lace. B. M. Add. MSS. No. 5751. At the entry of Lord Stair into Paris, 1718, his servants’ hats are described as hiced with Spanish point, their sleeves laced with picked silver lace, and dented at the edge with lace. “ Edinburgh Cou- rant.” In 1740, the Countess of Pomfret, speaking of the Princess Mary’s wedding clothes, writes, “ That for the wedding night is silver tissue, faced at the bottom before with pink-coloured satin, trimmed with silver Point d Espagne.”—letters of the Countess of Hartford to the Countess of Pomfret, 1740.