But the
"Rebatoes, ribbands, cuffs, ruffs, falls,
Scarfes, feathers, fans, maskes, muffs, laces, cauls,"[[963]]
of King Charles's court were soon to disperse at the now outbreaking Revolution. The Herrn Maior Frau (Lady Mayoress), the noble English lady depicted by Hollar,[[964]] must now lay aside her whisk, edged with broad lace of needle point, and no longer hie to St. Martin's for lace:[[965]] she must content herself with a plain attire.
"Sempsters with ruffs and cuffs, and quoifs and caules
And falls,"[[966]]
must be dismissed. Smocks of three pounds a-piece,[[967]] wrought smocks,[[968]] are no longer worn by all—much less those "seam'd thro' with cutwork,"[[969]] or "lace to her smocks, broad seaming laces,"[[970]] which, groans one of the Puritan writers, "is horrible to think of."
The ruff and cuffs of Flanders, gold lace cut-work and silver lace of curle,[[971]] needle point, and fine gartering with blown roses,[[972]] are now suppressed under Puritan rule.
The "fop" whom Henry Fitz-Geoffrey describes as having
"An attractive lace