We now come to the period when lace, so long only made for church purposes, was very extensively made and used by lay persons for their personal adornment, and for furnishing purposes. The bed cover Plate 40 was, no doubt, one of many made for a household of simple tastes; the coarse linen is cut into a fine flowing pattern edged with buttonhole stitch, and ornamented with various fillings. But in houses of greater pretension the use of the richest rose-point became lavish, not only on the dress of the mistress, the collar of the master, but on table covers and hangings of every kind. Examples of this splendid lace are given in No. 42 and following plates. No. 44 has, perhaps, the finest toilé; but the design of No. 45 is very beautiful. No. 46 is a flounce for an alb of very fine scroll design with brides picotées and occasional raised work; the beauty of the pattern is better seen in the enlargement, Plate 47. The paten cover, No. 48, and the enlargement of it, No. 49, give a complete idea of the style and execution of this lace. The design of the flounce, No. 51, is of the style usually associated with point de France, the stitches and brides picotées are identical in workmanship with the Venetian point. It was probably made at Alençon, Sedan, or one of the other lace-making centres which were started upon the importation of Venetian laceworkers into France after the middle of the seventeenth century. The specimens of Spanish rose-point, Nos. 53 and 54, show the stately and elaborate design, rather overloaded with ornament, which is characteristic of this lace. The Venetian point à réseau was made from about 1650 in Venice and Burano. The cap shown in No. 56 has a beautiful flowing design of a scroll with flowers and leaves, and brides connecting some portions of the design. The main ground is of small mesh réseau worked the length of the lace, which is often the case in Venetian work, though I have never seen it in Alençon lace, the réseau being, as far as I know, usually worked across the lace by the early French workers. (Later, the réseau of the Alençon lace was worked obliquely, as can be seen by examining Plate 67, and the specimens I have seen of modern Alençon are also worked in this way.) Plates 59 and 60 show interesting specimens of this very rare Venetian lace. No. 2, in the latter plate, is probably a specimen worked in France. The ground of No. 59 is of brides picotées arranged into hexagonal meshes, a ground which is chiefly associated with the point de France, and this specimen was no doubt from Alençon.