de Cipre ou d'or de Luke melle avec laton de Spayne & mys a vent en
deceit des lieges du Roi sont forfait au Roi ou as Seigneurs et autres
accenz franchises d'autielx forfaitures ein quy franchise autiel
overaigne soit trouvee et durera c'est ordinance longue parlement
prochainement avenir.

33 Henry VI.

That if any Lombard or any other person, Stranger or Denizen, bring or
cause to be brought by way of merchandize any wrought silk thrown,
Ribbands, Laces, Corses of Silk, or any other thing wrought, touching
or concerning the mystery of Silk women, the corses which come from
Genoa only excepted, into any part or place of the Realm from beyond
the Sea, that the same ... be forfeit.

3 Edward IV.

Whereby the importation of any wrought silk thrown, Ribbands, Laces,
Corses of Silk, or other things wrought, concerning the craft of Silk
women is prohibited or restrained.

22 Edward IV.

That no Marchant, Stranger, nor other person shall bring into the
Realm to be sold, any Corses, Girdles, Ribbands, Laces, Coll. Silk or
Colein Silk, thrown or wrought, upon pain of forfeiture of the same.

Also Richard III. "An Act touching the bringing in of Silk Laces,
Ribbands, &c."

Also 19 Henry VII. "An Act for Silk Women."

These acts appear to have been partially repealed, 3 and 5 George III.

INDEX.

Achilles, shield of, 33, 103.

Aelgitha, wife of Canute, embroideries by, 366.

AEsthetic, 17, 90, 339.

Agrippina, golden garment of, 143.

Alessandri Palace, Florence, 284.

Alexander the Great, 142, 299;
wedding tent of, 263-4;
pall of, 142.

Alkisthenes, mantle of, 298.

Altar, 42, 346;
altar-piece, 328;
altar-cloths, 340, 346;
by Queen Emma, 366.

Amasis, corselet of, 20, 308;
Bishop of, 299.

Anne of Brittany, 331.

Apollo of Branchidae, 296.

Arabesque, 43, 80.

Arachne, 237.

Aragon, Catherine of, embroideries by, 383.

Aristophanes, 98.

Arras, 238, 243, 255-6, 274.

Arrazzi, 245;
Prince of, 249;
trade with, 250, 252.

Art of dress, 298;
of needlework, 396.

Art, Greek, 18, 35, 59, 306;
Egyptian, 20, 25, 34, 56-7;
Scandinavian, 29, 40;
Roman, 37, 60, 310;
Romanesque, 36, 323;
Christian, 37, 39, 300, 306, 311, 315, 317;
Chinese, 38, 73, 153, 155;
Japanese, 38, 64, 65, 393;
Gothic, 42, 52, 68, 307, 324;
Italian, 43, 311;
French, 46;
Ecclesiastical, 41