. History of lace. English. Devonshire Trolly.—First part of nineteenth century,Photos by A. Dryden from private collection. Tu face page 292. ENGLAND TO QUEEN ELIZABETH 293 the church inventories. Among the churchwardens accountsof St. Mary-at-Hill, date 1554, we find entered a charge ofZs. for making the Bishopps (boy bishop) myter with stuffand lace.^^ The richly-laced corporax cloths and churchlinen are sent to be washed by the Lady Ancress, anecclesiastical washerwoman, who is paid by the churchwardens■of St. Margarets, Westminster, the sum of 8(i. ; this LadyAncress, or Anchoress, being
. History of lace. English. Devonshire Trolly.—First part of nineteenth century,Photos by A. Dryden from private collection. Tu face page 292. ENGLAND TO QUEEN ELIZABETH 293 the church inventories. Among the churchwardens accountsof St. Mary-at-Hill, date 1554, we find entered a charge ofZs. for making the Bishopps (boy bishop) myter with stuffand lace.^^ The richly-laced corporax cloths and churchlinen are sent to be washed by the Lady Ancress, anecclesiastical washerwoman, who is paid by the churchwardens■of St. Margarets, Westminster, the sum of 8(i. ; this LadyAncress, or Anchoress, being some worn-out old nun w^ho,since the dissolution of the religious houses, eked out anexistence by the art she had once practised within the wallsoi her convent. At the burial of King Edward VL, Sir Edward Waldgrave FiR. Fisher, Bishop of Rochester.—(M. de Versailles.) •enters on his account a charge of fifty yards of gold passe-ment lace for garnishing the pillars of the church. The sumptuary laws of Henry YIII. were again renewedby Queen Mary :^^ in them ruffles made or wrought out ofEngland, commonly called cut-work, are forbidden to anyoneunder the degree of a baron ; w^hile to women of a stationbeneath that of a knights wife, all wreath lace or passementlace of gold and silver with sleeves, partlet or linen trimmed ^^ We read, too, of 3 kyrcheys y*was given to the kyrk wash, large asa womans hood worn at a funeral,highly ornamented with the needle bypious women, and given to be sold for the good of the impoverished church,for which the churchwardens of , Spurr Gate, York, receivedthe sum of os. ^^ 1 and 2 Ph. and Mary, 294 HISTORY OF LACE 9 with purles of gold and silver, or white-works, alias cut-works,,etc., made beyond the sea, is strictly prohibited. Thesearticles were, it seems
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