[1130] Id. p. 107.
[1131] Id. p. 108, 109, citing Bancroft, i, 401, 402. Seeley ignored these and many other matters when he pronounced that the annals of Greater Britain are "conspicuously better than those of Greater Spain, which are infinitely more stained with cruelty and rapacity." In the usual English fashion, he left out of account, too, the horrors of the English conquests of Ireland.
[1132] Ecclesiastical History, 12 cent., pt. i, ch. ii, § 2.
[1133] See Rogers, Industrial and Commercial History, p. 13, as to the distress about 1630.
[1134] Cunningham, as cited, p. 107.
[1135] Redlich and Hirst, Local Government in England, 1903, ii, 361; and Miss Leonard's Early History of English Poor Relief, as there cited.
[1136] See Child's testimony, cited below, p. 467. That, however, specifies no superiority in the methods of the monarchy.
[1137] Redlich and Hirst, as cited, ii, 363, note.
[1138] Cunningham, p. 109.
[1139] See Rogers, Industrial and Commercial History, p. 4, as to the iron trade.