"A butcher's wife showed Miss O—— a piece of Alençon point, which she called 'nun's work.'"—Extract from a letter from Scotland, 1863.
1698, May. In the London Gazette, in the advertisement of a sale by auction, among other "rich goods," we find "nun's work," but the term here probably applies to netting, for in the Protestant Post Boy of March 15th, 1692, is advertised as lost "A nun's work purse wrought with gold thread."
1763. In the Edinburgh Advertiser appears, "Imported from the Grand Canaries, into Scotland, nun's work."
As, for instance, "the imbrothering" of the monks of the monastery of Wolstrope, in Lincolnshire.
Livre de Lingerie. Dom. de Sera, 1581. "Donne, donzelle, con gli huomini."—Taglienti, 1530. Patterns which "les Seigneurs, Dames, et Damoiselles ont eu pour agréables."—Vinciolo, 1587.
Jehan Mayol, carme de Lyon; Fra Hieronimo, dell' Ordine dei Servi; Père Dominique, religieux carme, and others.