"I have heard the Steinkirk arrived but two months ago."—Spectator, No. 129.
The "modish spark" wears "a huge Steinkirk, twisted, to the waist."—1694. Prologue to First Part of Don Quixote.
Frank Osbaldeston, in Rob Roy, is deprived by the Highlanders of his cravat, "a Steinkirke richly laced."
At Ham House was the portrait of a Countess of Dysart, temp. Anne, in three-cornered cocked hat, long coat, flapped waistcoat, and Mechlin Steinkirk.
In the Account Book of Isabella, Duchess of Grafton, daughter of Lord Arlington, Evelyn's "sweet child"—her portrait hangs in Queen Mary's Room, Hampton Court—we have: "1709. To a Stinkirk, £1 12s. 3d."
They appear to have been made of other stuffs than lace, for in the same account, 1708, we have entered: "To a green Steenkirk, £1 1s. 6d."
The Volunteers, or the Stock Jobbers.
"The Tombs in Westminster Abbey," sung by the Brothers Popplewell. Broadside, 1775.—B. M. Roxburgh Coll.