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JAMES I. 289 Towards the end of James I.’s reign a singular custom came into fashion, brought in by the Puritan ladies, that of representing religious subjects, both in lace, outwork, and embroidery, a fashion hitherto confined to church vestments. We find constant allusions to it in the dramatists of the day. Thus, in the “ City Match,” 43 we read— “ She works religious petticoats, for flowers She’ll make church histories. Her needle doth So sanctify my cushionets, besides My smock sleeves have such holy embroideries, And are so learned, that I fear in time All my apparel will be quoted by Some pious instructor.” Again, in the “ Custom of the Country ” 44 — u Sure, you should not be Without a neat historical shirt/’ We find in a Scotch inventory 45 of the seventeenth century: “ Of Holland scheittes ii pair, quhairof i pair schewit (sewed) with hollie work.” 46 The entries of this reign, beyond the “ hollie work,” picked 47 and seaming 48 lace, contain little of any novelty; all articles of the toilet were characterised by a most reckless extravagance. Tanyer and Margarett Lc Moyne, “ may- dons and makers of bone lace,” wind up the catalogue of the Hover “ Alyens.” The Maidstone authorities complain that the thread-makers’ trade is much decayed by the importation of thread from Flanders. “ List of Foreign Pro testants resident in England,” 1618-88. Printed by the Camden Society. 43 Jasper Mayne. 44 Beaumont and Fletcher. 45 ‘-Valuables of Glenurquhy,'’ 1640. Innes’ “ Sketches of Early Scotch History.” 46 Collars of “ Hollie worke ” appear in the inventories of Mary Stuart. 47 “ Thomas Hodg< s, for making ruffe and cuffes for his Highness of cuttworke edged with a fayre peake purle, 71.”— 2 nd Acc. of Sir J. Villiers, Prince Charles, 1617-18. P. II. O. “ 40 yards broad peaked lace to edge 6 cupboard cloths, at 4s. per yard, 81.”—■ llid. 48 “ Seaming ” lace and spacing lace appear to have been generally used at this period to unite the breadths of linen, in stead of a seam sewed. We find them em ployed for cupboard cloths, cushion cloths, sheets, shirts, &c., throughout the accounts of King James and Prince Charles. “ At Stratford-upon-Avon is preserved, in the room where Shakspeare’s wife, Anne Hathaway, was born, an oaken linen chest, containing a pillow case and a very large sheet made of homespun linen. Down the middle of the sheet is an ornamental open or cut work insertion, about an inch and a half deep, and the pillow case is similarly ornamented. They are marked E. H., and have al ways been used by the Hathaway family U