[1075] On this see Stubbs, ch. xxi, §§ 470, 471.
[1076] Act 4 Hen. VII, c. 12, preamble, and c. 19.
[1077] Cp. Moreton on Civilisation, 1836, p. 106; Cunningham, English Industry, i, 392.
[1078] Cp. Cliffe Leslie, Essays in Political and Moral Philosophy, p. 267; Toynbee, The Industrial Revolution, pp. 63, 66; Gibbon's Memoirs, beginning.
[1079] Gardiner, Introd. to Eng. Hist. 1881, p. 118; Cunningham, Industry and Commerce, i, 434.
[1080] Rogers, Story of Holland, p. 217, and Six Centuries, p. 184; W.T. McCullagh's Industrial History of the Free Nations, 1846, ii, 42, 272; Gibbins, pp. 104, 109.
[1081] Rogers, History of Agriculture and Prices, iv, 106, 108, citing Acts 6 Hen. VIII, c. 6, and 32 Hen. VIII, cc. 18, 19.
[1082] It is in the prologue to Act v, 11. 30-34. I affirm without hesitation that the prologues to all five Acts are non-Shakespearean, and plainly by one other hand. Compare the chorus prologues to Dekker's Old Fortunatus, which are in exactly the same style. In the latest biography, however (Lee's, p. 174), there is no recognition of any such possibility. It is surprising that Steevens and Ritson, who pronounced the prologue to Troilus and Cressida non-Shakespearean, should not have suspected those to Henry V, which are so signally similar in style. Dekker's connection with Troilus and Cressida is indicated by Henslowe's Diary. The style is a nearly decisive clue to his authorship of the Henry V prologues.
[1083] Lee's Life, pp. 175, 176.
[1084] A theory of this is suggested in the author's Montaigne and Shakespeare.