Jasper Mayne. 1670.
"Mistris Turner, the first inventresse of yellow starch, was executed in a cobweb lawn ruff of that color at Tyburn, and with her I believe that yellow starch, which so much disfigured our nation and rendred them so ridiculous and fantastic, will receive its funerall."—Howel's Letters. 1645.
State Papers Dom., James I. Vol. cxiii. No. 18.
We read that in 1574 the Venetian ladies dyed their lace the colour of saffron. The fashion may therefore be derived from them.
"He is of England, by his yellow band."—Notes from Black Fryers. Henry Fitzgeffery. 1617.
"Now ten or twenty eggs will hardly suffice to starch one of these yellow bandes."—Barnaby Rich. The Irish Hubbub, or the English Hue and Cry. 1622.
Killigrew, in his play called The Parson's Wedding, published in 1664, alludes to the time when "yellow starch and wheel verdingales were cried down"; and in The Blind Lady, a play printed in 1661, a serving-man says to the maid: "You had once better opinion of me, though now you wash every day your best handkerchief in yellow starch."