. History of lace . •Ji y-ynvm ,|^^->^!v« r>?-. :>^. Flemish. Tape Lace, Bobbin-made.^Seventeenth by A. Dryden. To/ace page 116. BKl/SSELS 117 Point dAngleterre, an error explained to us by history. In1662 the English Parliament, alarmed at the sums of moneyexpended on foreign point, and desirous to protect theEnglish bone-lace manufacture, passed an Act prohibitingthe importation of all foreign lace. The English lace-merchants, at a loss how to supply the Brussels pointrequired at the court of Charles II., invited Flemish lace-makers to settle in England and there esta
. History of lace . •Ji y-ynvm ,|^^->^!v« r>?-. :>^. Flemish. Tape Lace, Bobbin-made.^Seventeenth by A. Dryden. To/ace page 116. BKl/SSELS 117 Point dAngleterre, an error explained to us by history. In1662 the English Parliament, alarmed at the sums of moneyexpended on foreign point, and desirous to protect theEnglish bone-lace manufacture, passed an Act prohibitingthe importation of all foreign lace. The English lace-merchants, at a loss how to supply the Brussels pointrequired at the court of Charles II., invited Flemish lace-makers to settle in England and there establish the manu-facture. The scheme, however, was unsuccessful. Englanddid not produce the necessary Hax, and the lace made w^as ofan inferior quality. The merchants therefore adopted amore simple expedient. Possessed of large capital, theybought up the choicest laces of the Brussels market, and thensmucslinjx tliem over to Eno-land, sold them under the nameof point dAngleterre, or English Point. ^* This fact is, curiously enough, corroborated in a secondmem
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