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SCOTLAND. 377 panied by Mary of Modena and bis “ duteous ” daughter Anne, visited the Scotch capital, that anything like gaiety or dress can he said to have appalled the eyes of the strait-laced population. Dryden, sneering at the barbarism of the Scotch capital, writes, in the prologue to a play delivered at Oxford, referring to a portion of the troop that accompanied the court to Scotland— “ Laced linen there would be a dangerous tiling; It might perhaps a new rebellion bring— The Scot who wore it would be chosen king.” The Highlander, however, when in full dress, did not disdain to adopt the falling band and ruffles of guipure or Flanders lace. A curious relic of this ancient mode may still be found in the long white crinkled sugar-plums familiar to most people in the Dundee mixtures, which, from their fancied resemblance to the guipure of the old falls, still bear the name of “ band-ties.” The advertisements and inventories of the first years of the eighteenth century give us little reason to imagine any change had been effected in the homely habits of the people. At the marriage of a daughter of Thomas Smythe, of Methuen, in 1701, to Sir Thomas Moncrieffe, the bride had a head-suit and ruffles of cutwork which cost nearly six pounds ten shillings. 27 Few and scanty advertisements of roups of “ white thread lace ” appear in the journals of the day. 28 27 “ In 1701, when Mistress Margaret, daughter of the Baron of lvilravock, married, ‘ flounced muslin and lace for combing cloths,’ appear in her outfit.”— Ames’ Sketches. 28 In a pamphlet published 1702, en titled “ An Accompt carried between England and Scotland,” alluding to the encouragement of the yam trade, the author says: “This great improvement can be attested by the industry of many young gentlewomen that have little or no portion, by spinning one pound of fine lint, and then breaking it into fine flax and whitening it. One gentlewoman told me herself that, by making an ounce or two of it into fine bone lace, it was worth, or she got, twenty pounds Scots for that part of it; and might, after same manner, five or eight pounds sterling out of a pound of lint, that cost her not one shilling sterling. Now if a law were made not to import any muslin (her Grace the Duchess of Hamilton still wears our finest Scots muslin as a pattern to others—she who may wear the finest apparel) and Holland lace, it would in duce and stir up many of all ranks to wear more fine ‘ Scots lace,’ which would encourage and give bread to many young gentlewomen and help their fortunes.” Then, among the products of Scotland by which “ we may balance any nation,” the same writer mentions “ our white thread, and making laces.” “ On Tuesday, the 16th inst., will begin the roup of several sort of mer chants’ goods, in the first story of the Turnpyke, above the head of Bells Wynd, from 9 to 12 and 2 till 5. ‘White thread lace.’ ”—Edinburgh Courant, 170(5.