1537. James V. and Lord Somerville at Holyrood:—"Where are all your men and attendants, my Lord?"
"Please, your Majesty, they are here"—pointing to the lace which was on his son and two pages' dress. The King laughed heartily and surveyed the finery, and bade him "Away with it all, and let him have his stout band of spears again."
Croft's Excerpta Antiqua.
The Countess of Mar, daughter of the first Duke of Lennox and granddaughter by her mother's side to Marie Touchet. She was daughter-in-law to the preceptress of James VI., and in 1593 had the honour, at the baptism of Prince Henry, of lifting the child from his bed and delivering him to the Duke of Lennox. A portrait of this lady, in the high Elizabethan ruff, and with a "forepart" and tucker of exquisite raised Venice point, hung (circ. 1870) in the drawing-room of the late Miss Katherine Sinclair.
"Une robe de velours vert couverté de Broderies, gimpeures, et cordons d'or et d'argent, et bordée d'un passement de même.
"Une robe veluat cramoisi bandée de broderie de guimpeure d'argent.
"Une robe de satin blanc chamarrée de broderie faite de guimpeure d'or.
"Id. de satin jaune toute couverte de broderye gumpeure, etc.