Statutes at large.—Anne 5 & 6.
This edict greatly injured the lace trade of France. In the Atlas Maritime et Commercial of 1727, it states: "I might mention several other articles of French manufacture which, for want of a market in England where their chief consumption was, are so much decayed and in a manner quite sunk. I mean as to exportation, the English having now set up the same among themselves, such as bone lace."
History of Trade. London, 1702.
"Pro 14 virgis lautæ Fimbr' Bruxell' laciniæ et 12 virgis dict' laciniæ pro Reginæ persona, £151."—G. W. A. 1710-11.
Letters of the Countess of Hartford to the Countess of Pomfret. 1740.