The Conversion and Experience of Mary Hurll', or Hurdle, of Marlborough, a maker of bone lace in this town, by the Rev. —— Hughes, of that town.
Waylen's History of Marlborough.
"At Bland, on the Stour, between Salisbury and Dorchester, they made the finest lace in England, valued at £30 per yard."—Universal Dict. of Trade and Commerce. 1774.
"Much bone lace was made here, and the finest point in England, equal, if not superior, to that of Flanders, and valued at £30 per yard till the beginning of this century."—Hutchins' Hist. of the County of Dorset. 2nd Edition, 1796.
What this celebrated point was we cannot ascertain. Two samplars sent to us as Blandford point were of geometric pattern resembling the samplar, Fig. 5.