The lace of James II.'s cravats and ruffles are of point de Venise.
Sex prælant cravatts de lacinia Venetiarum, are charged £141, and 9 yards lace, for six more cravats, £45.
£36 10s. for the cravat of Venice lace to wear on the day of his Coronation," etc.—G. W. A. Jac. II. 1685-6.
A writer in the Gentleman's Magazine, (October, 1745), mentions: "In the parlour of the monastery of English Benedictines at Paris, I was shown the mask of the king's face, taken off immediately after he was dead, together with the fine laced nightcap he died in." The cap at Dunkirk is trimmed with Flemish lace (old Mechlin). It must have passed from Paris to the convent of English Benedictines at Dunkirk, who left that city in 1793. There is no record how it became deposited in the Museum.—Communicated by M. de Forçade, Conservator of the Museu la Dunkirk.
9 & 10 Will. III. = 1697-8.
11 & 12 Will. III. = 1698-9.