. History of lace . Monument of the Princess Mary. + 1607. Third daughter of James I. (Westminster Abbey.) ( Sidneys sister, Pembrokes mother ), with its elaborateborder of swans (Fig. 127), is a good illustration of thefashion of her time. Among the early entries of Prince Charles, we have fournightcaps of cut-work, £7,^ for making two of which for his stitched and shagged, and cut-work company exported a large quantity of nightcaps, purchased for James I., in gold and silver lace to India for the the same account, with 28s. for one King of Golconda. load of hay to stuff the woolsacks for ^^
. History of lace . Monument of the Princess Mary. + 1607. Third daughter of James I. (Westminster Abbey.) ( Sidneys sister, Pembrokes mother ), with its elaborateborder of swans (Fig. 127), is a good illustration of thefashion of her time. Among the early entries of Prince Charles, we have fournightcaps of cut-work, £7,^ for making two of which for his stitched and shagged, and cut-work company exported a large quantity of nightcaps, purchased for James I., in gold and silver lace to India for the the same account, with 28s. for one King of Golconda. load of hay to stuff the woolsacks for ^^ Malcontent. 1600. the Parliament House.—G. AV. Ace. -^ Extraordinary expenses, 1622-26. Jac. I. 18 to 19. P. E. the same year, 1620, an English JAMES I Z^l Hio-hness, garnished with gold and silver lace, Patrick Burkereceives £15 ; ^ but these modest entries are quite put toshame by those of his royal father, who, for ten yards ofneedlework lace pro le edginge of his galiriculis vulgo Fig. Mary, Countess of Pembroke. + 1G21.(From her portrait In Walpoles Royal and Noble Authont.) nightcaps, pays £16 135. 4d Well might the Water-Poet exclaim—• A nightcap is a garment of high state. ^^ When Queen Anne died, in 1619, we have an elaborate 3- 2na Ace. of Sir J. Villier?. 1617-18. P. R. « GL W. A. Jac. I. 6 to 7.^ Taylor. 1640:— The bean would feign sickness To show his nightcap fine,And his wrought pillow overspreadwith lawn.—Davies. Epigrams. Y 2 324 HISTORY OF LACE account of her funeral/° and of tlie sum paid to DorothySpeckart for dressing a hearae ettigy with a large veil, wiredand edged with peak lace and lawn, curiously cut in flowers,etc. Laced linen, however, was already discarded inmournino- attire, for we find in the charges for the kino-smourning ruffs, an edging at 14r/. the piece is alonerecorded. Towards the end of James reim a sinoular customcame into fashion, brought in by the Puritan ladies, that ofrepresenting religious subjects, l
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