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Show llailr.l la Ur.-. I-sce head Irrsj-rs. or what were called heads of lace, were very fashionable In Inglaul In the reigns of Mary and Aline, and the ladie-s of tho court sometimes some-times aid vary Urge sums for a flue head of rreuchor lletnlsh lsct, but the extravagance 111 this fragile article of Itiiury waa neur carried tu the same ruinous extent ua In Prance. It was, however, trufusely worn eleringwhit may bo called tlie lace epoch, and was even coveted as nn article of ti'ornuient after death Mrs. Oldlleld. the celebrated actress, left Instructions that si a should bo lall in her coflln arrayed In a very flno head, dress of Ilrussels lace, lu a shroud cf Holland linen with Uce tucker and ruf Utaandapalrof kll gloiea. Yards of the costliest ttliit ! Anglstrrro and Mechlin lace, were wrai id aroun 1 the corpse of the besutilul Aurora ion Konljsinarck before she was laid In lirr grave at cuedllnburg, and uany of the luntnmlea found In the caticoiabs of Ih. Capuchin convent at li'.cnno are swathed In the anne costly funeral robes. Chambers' JournaL |