Later (1676-7) we find charged for "un par manicarum, le poynt, £14."
When it was replaced by a black ribbon and a bow.
London, 1680.
Authors, however, disagree like the rest of the world. In a tract called The Ancient Trades Decayed Repaired Again, by Sir Roger L'Estrange (1678), we read: "Nay, if the materials used in a trade be not of the growth of England, yet, if the trade be to employ the poor, we should have it bought without money, and brought to us from beyond the seas where it is made as 'Bone lace.'"
Swift. Baucis and Philemon.