The Milliner, in Shadwell's Bury Fair. 1720.
G. W. A. Will. III. 1688 to 1702. P. R. O.
Ibid. vii. & viii.
"I hope your Lordship is pleased with your Steinkerk."—Sir John Vanbrugh. The Relapse.
In Colley Cibber's Careless Husband, Lady Easy takes the Steinkirk off her neck and lays it on Sir Charles's head when he is asleep.
In Love's Last Shift, by the same author (1695), the hero speaks of being "Strangled in my own Steinkerk."
In Love for Love, by Congreve, Sir Novelty enumerates the Steinkirk, the large button, with other fashions, as created by him.