Period of the peace of Utrecht when Lille, which had been retaken by Prince Eugène, was again restored to France.
Histoire Populaire de Lille. Henri Brunet. Lille, 1848; and Histoire de Lille. V. Derode.
Report of the Commissioners for 1851.
As late as 1761 Lille was considered as "foreign" with respect to France, and her laces made to pay duty according to the tariff of 1664.
In 1708 (31st of July) we have an Arrest du Conseil d'Estat du Roy, relative to the seizure of seventeen cartons of lace belonging to one "Mathieu, marchand à l'Isle." Mathieu, in defence, pretends that "les dentelles avoient esté fabriquées à Haluin (near Lille), terre de la domination de Sa Majesté."—Arch. Nat. Coll. Rondonneau.