Mary, her third daughter, died 1607, not two years of age. Mrs. Greene quotes from the P. R. O. a note of the "necessaries to be provided for the child," among which are six large cambric handkerchiefs, whereof one is to be edged with "fair cut-work to lay over the child's face"; six veils of lawn, edged with fair bone lace; six "gathered bibs of fine lawn with ruffles edged with bone lace," etc. The total value of the lace and cambric required for the infant's garments is estimated at £300.—Lives of the Princesses of England. Vol. vi., p. 90.
England is rich in monumental effigies decorated with lace—too many to enumerate. Among them we would instance that of Alice, Countess of Derby, died 1636, in Harefield Church, Middlesex, in which the lace is very carefully sculptured.—Communicated by Mr. Albert Hartshorne.
1620-1. We have entries of "falling bands" of good cambric, edged with beautiful bone lace, two dozen stitched and shagged, and cut-work nightcaps, purchased for James I., in the same account, with 28s. for "one load of hay to stuff the woolsacks for the Parliament House."—G. W. Acc. Jac. I. 18 to 19.
In the same year, 1620, an English company exported a large quantity of gold and silver lace to India for the King of Golconda.
Malcontent. 1600.
Extraordinary expenses, 1622-26. P. R. O.