342 HISTORY OF LACE. high value on every endeavour to further English manufactures, and whatever had such recommendation would be prefeired bv him to works of possibly higher perfection made in any other country. 15 From this period Newport Pagnel is cited as one of the most noted towns in the kingdom for making bone lace. 16 At the end of the last century, the Revolution again drove Fig. 120. W9§*mm iH Buckinghamshire “point." many of the poorer French to seek refuge 011 our shores, as they had done a century before; and we find stated in the “Annual hegister of 1/94: “A number of ingenious French emigrants have found employment in thicks, Bedfordshire, and the adjacent counties, in the manufacturing of lace, and it is expected through, the means of these artificers considerable improvements will be introduced 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 by a thicker thread. The bobbins that hold the trolly threads are 15 “Annual Register.” 10 See “Biitannia Dep:cta,” by John O.ven, Gent. (Lornl. I7C4), and others.