 Although 19th-century sources have asserted that some of these refugees were lacemakers and contributed to the East Midlands lace industry,<ref name="palliser"></ref><ref name="wright"></ref> this is contentious.<ref></ref><ref></ref> The only reference to immigrant lacemakers in this period is of twenty-five widows who settled in Dover, and there is no contemporary documentation to support there being Huguenot lacemakers in Bedfordshire.The implication that the style of lace known as 'Bucks Point' demonstrates a Huguenot influence, being a "combination of Mechlin patterns on Lille ground", is fallacious