[269]1488, Act of Parliament on Enclosures.
[270]A "Compendious Examination," 1581, by William Strafford. Act of Parliament, 1541.
[271]Between 1377 and 1588 the increase was from two and a half to five millions.
[272]In 1585; Ludovic Guicciardini.
[273]Henry VIII at the beginning of his reign had but one ship of war. Elizabeth sent out one hundred and fifty against the Armada. In 1553 was founded a company to trade with Russia. In 1578 Drake circumnavigated the globe. In 1600 the East India Company was founded.
[274]Nathan Drake, "Shakespeare and his Times," 1817, I. V. 72 et passim.
[275]Nathan Drake, "Shakespeare and his Times," I. V. 102.
[276]This was called the Tudor style. Under James I, in the hands of Inigo Jones, it became entirely Italian, approaching the antique.
[277]Burton, "Anatomy of Melancholy," 12th ed. 1821. Stubbes, "Anatomie of Abuses," ed. Turnbull, 1836.
[278]Nathan Drake, "Shakespeare and his Times," II. 6, 87.