[22]. There is an example of opus araneum or lacis, net work embroidered with a simple floral design, on the collar of Bp. Stafford, 1308, in Exeter Cathedral.
[23]. Antique Point and Honiton Lace. Mrs Treadwin. No date.
[24]. History of Lace. Mrs. Palliser, 1901.
[25]. Queen Adelaide also caused to be introduced the Maltese lace, that continued to be made for years here and there.
[26]. Mrs. Treadwin in her younger days saw some twenty-four men lace makers in Woodbury, one of whom had worked at his pillow so late as 1820. From being taught as boys, the sailors used to employ themselves in the winter making some of the coarse laces.
[27]. This account of John Rattenbury is compiled from a somewhat scarce little book entitled Memoirs of a Smuggler, compiled from his Diary and Journal, containing the Principal Events in the Life of John Rattenbury, of Beer, Devonshire, commonly called “The Rob Roy of the West.” Sidmouth: J. Harvey, 1837. 12mo.
[28]. The Rev. Philip Atherton, M.A., Headmaster of Blundell’s School, and a member of the Corporation.
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