H. Ellis, Original Letters, 2nd series, vol. II, 1827, letter CLXXXII, and J. W. Burgon, The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Gresham, 1839, vol. II, p. 343. ↩
Wilson, Discourse Upon Usury, 1925, Introduction, p. 249. ↩
Commons’ Journals, May 21, 1604, vol. I, p. 218. ↩
13 Eliz., c. 8, repealing 5 and 6 Ed. VI, c. 20; D’Ewes, Journals, pp. 171–4. ↩
Owen and Blakeway, History of Shrewsbury, 1825, vol. II, pp. 364 n., 412. ↩
Hist. MSS. Com., Report on MSS. in Various Collections, vol. I, 1901, p. 46 (MSS. of Corporation of Burford). ↩
Wilson, Discourse Upon Usury, 1925, Introduction, p. 233. ↩
Coke, Institutes, pt. II, 1797, pp. 601 seqq. (“Certain articles of abuses which are desired to be reformed in granting of prohibitions, exhibited by Richard Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury.”) ↩
Thomas Ridley, A View of the Civile and Ecclesiastical Law, and Wherein the Practice of Them Is Streitened and May Be Relieved Within This Land, 1607, Dedication, p. 3. ↩
W. Huntley, A Breviate of the Prelates’ Intolerable Usurpation, 1637, pp. 183–4. The case referred to is that of Hinde, alleged to have been heard Mich. 18 and 19 Eliz. For the controversy over prohibitions, see R. G. Usher, The Rise and Fall of the High Commission, 1913, pp. 180 seqq. ↩
D’Ewes, Journals, pp. 171, 173. ↩
See, e.g., Surtees Society, vol. XXXIV, 1858, The Acts of the High Commission Court Within the Diocese of Durham, Preface, which shows that between 1626 and 1639 cases of contempt of the ordinary ecclesiastical jurisdiction ran into hundreds. ↩
Penn, No Cross, No Crown, pt. I, ch. XII, par. 8. ↩
Sanderson, De Obligatione Conscientiæ, 1666; Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living, 1650, chap. III, sect. III (Of Negotiation or Civil Contracts, Rules and Measures of Justice in Bargaining). ↩
Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees, ed. F. B. Kaye, 1924, pp. 193, 194. Similar sentiments with regard to the necessity of poverty were expressed later by the Rev. J. Townsend, in his Dissertation on the Poor Laws (1785), and by Patrick Colquhoun in his Treatise on the Wealth and Resources of the British Empire (1814). Like Mandeville, both these writers argue that poverty is essential to the prosperity, and, indeed, to the very existence, of civilization. For a full collection of citations to the same effect from eighteenth-century writers, see E. S. Furniss, The Position of the Laborer in a System of Nationalism, 1920, chaps. IV-VI. ↩
The Whole Duty of Man, Laid Down in a Plain and Familiar Way for the Use of All, 1658. ↩
Tucker, A Brief Essay on the Advantages and Disadvantages Which Respectively Attend France and Great Britain with Regard to Trade, 1750, p. 33. The best account of Tucker, most of whose works are scarce, is given by W. E. Clark, Josiah Tucker, Economist (Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, Columbia University, vol. XIX, 1903–5). ↩
Reliquiæ Baxterianæ: Or Mr. Richard Baxter’s Narrative of The Most Memorable Passages of His Life and Times, 1696, p. 5. ↩
Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress. ↩
The Life of the Duke of Newcastle, by Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle (Everyman ed., 1915, p. 153). ↩
Reliquiæ Baxterianæ: Or Mr. Richard Baxter’s Narrative of The Most Memorable Passages of His Life and Times, 1696, p. 31. ↩
Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress. ↩
Reliquiæ Baxterianæ: Or Mr. Richard Baxter’s Narrative of The Most Memorable Passages of His Life and Times, 1696, p. 89. ↩
Thomas Fuller, The Holy and Profane States, 1884 ed., p. 122. ↩
Quoted S. Seyer, Memoirs of Bristol, vol. II, 1823, p. 314. ↩
R. G. Usher, The Reconstruction of the English Church, vol. I, 1910, pp. 249–50. ↩
Reliquiæ Baxterianæ: Or Mr. Richard Baxter’s Narrative of The Most Memorable Passages of His Life and Times, 1696, p. 30. ↩
An Orderly and Plaine Narration of the Beginnings and Causes of This Warre, 1644, p. 4 (Brit. Mus., Thomason Tracts, E. 54 [3]). I owe this reference to the kindness of Father Paschal Larkin. ↩
Clarendon, History of the Rebellion, bk. VI, par. 271. ↩
Parker, Discourse of Ecclesiastical Politie, 1670, Preface, p. xxxix. ↩
The Life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon, Written by Himself, 1827 ed., vol. III, p. 101. ↩
D. C. A. Agnew, Protestant Exiles from France, 1886, vol. I, pp. 20–1. In 1640 the Root and Branch Petition included, among the evils due to the Bishops, “the discouragement and destruction of all good subjects, of whom are multitudes, both clothiers, merchants and others, who, being deprived of their ministers, and overburthened with these pressures, have departed the kingdom to Holland and other parts, and have drawn with them a great manufacture of cloth and trading out of the land into other places where they reside, whereby wool, the great staple of the kingdom, is become of small
