[174]. Lamond (Eliz.) Discourse of the Common weal, 1581.
[175]. Grasier’s Complaint, p. 60.
[176]. Yorks. N.R. Q.S. Rec., Vol. I., p. 22-3, 1605.
[177]. Hist. MSS. Com. Var. Coll., Vol. I., p. 93. Wilts Q.S. Rec., 1621. A similar detailed return was made from the Hundred of Wilton in 1691. Many often return ‘omnia bene’ and the like in brief.
[178]. Bund (J. W. Willis) Worcestershire Co. Rec., Vol. I., p. 564, 1634.
[179]. Ibid. Vol. I., p. 571, 1634.
[180]. Declaration of the Estate of Clothing, p. 2, 1613.
[181]. Spinster in the seventeenth century is used in its technical sense and refers equally to women who are married, unmarried or widows.
[182]. Davenant (Inspector-General of Exports and Imports). An account of the trade between Greate Britain, France, Holland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Africa, Newfoundland etc., with the importations and exportations of all Commodities, particularly of the Woollen Manufactures, delivered in his reports made to the Commissioners for Publick Accounts. 1715, p. 71. Our general exports for the year 1699 are valued at £6,788,166, 17s. 6¼d. Whereof the Woollen Manufacture for the same year are valued at £2,932,292, 17s. 6½d.
[183]. Proverb Crossed, p. 8, 1677. See also Case of the Woollen Manufacturers of Great Britain which states that they are “the subsistance of more than a Million of Poor of both sexes, who are employed therein.”