[1208] Hume, History of England, ch. 62, near end.
[1209] Dr. Cunningham (ii, 101, 102, 104) notes the feeling under the first Stuarts.
[1210] See Buckle, 3-vol. ed. ii, 42, 1-vol. ed. pp. 308-9, and his citations, as to the anti-ecclesiastical character of the Peace of Westphalia.
[1211] Cp. Storch, quoted by M'Culloch, Principles of Political Economy, Introd., and Schoell's addition to Koch, Hist. of Europe, Eng. tr. 3rd ed. p. 110. On the tendency of economic science to promote peace, see Buckle, i, 217, 218; 1-vol. ed. pp. 120-25.
[1212] See the so-called Political Testament of Colbert, Eng. tr. 1695, p. 351.
[1213] Petty, Political Arithmetic, ch. x (Essays, ed. 1699, p. 273). Even noblemen are mentioned as sometimes putting their younger sons to merchandise. Cp. Toynbee, Industrial Revolution, p. 63; and Josiah Tucker, Essay on Trade (1751), 4th ed. p. 43.
[1214] Gardiner, History of England, 1603-42, ed. 1893, i, 100.
[1215] Id. iv, 2.
[1216] Id. iv, 1.
[1217] See Gardiner, as cited, iv, 8, for a sample, and in particular pp. 41-43 for the notorious case of Sir Giles Mompesson and the inn licences.