Among the State Papers (Vol. cxxvi. 70), is a letter from Susan Nicholas to her "loveing Brother," 1628. About lace for his band, she writes: "I have sent you your bootehose and could have sent your lase for your band, but that I did see these lasees which to my thought did do a greddeale better then that wh you did bespeake, and the best of them will cost no more then that which is half a crowne a yard, and so the uppermost will cost you, and the other will cost 18 pence; I did thinke you would rather staye something long for it then to pay so deare for that wh would make no better show; if you like either of these, you shall have it sone desptch, for I am promise to have it made in a fortnight. I have received the monie from my cousson Hunton. Heare is no news to wright of. Thus with my best love remembred unto you, I rest your very loving sister,
"Susanne Nicholas.
"I have sent ye the lase ye foyrst bespoke, to compare them together, to see which ye like best."
In 1620 an English company exported a large quantity of gold and silver lace to India for the King of Golconda.
W. Peacham, Truth of the Times. 1638.
Hamlet says there are
"Two Provençal roses on my regal shoes."
"When roses in the gardens grow,