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[274]. Ibid., vol. II, p. 266.
[275]. Cal. State Pap., Domestic, 1629-31, p. 419. Cf. also, Ibid., pp. 8, 403, 419. A few years earlier, Sir Wm. Pelham, writing to his brother-in-law, said: “Our country was never in that wante that now itt is, and more of munnie than Corne, for theare are many thousands in thease parts whoo have soulde all thay have even to theyr bedd straw, and cann not get worke to earne any munny. Dogg's flesh is a dainty dish,” etc. Lincolnshire Notes and Queries, vol. I, p. 16.
[276]. “Our yeomanry, whose continuall under living, saving, and the immunities from the costly charge of these unfaithfull times, do make them so as to grow with the wealth of this world, that whilst many of the better sort, as having past their uttermost period, do suffer an utter declination, these onely doe arise, and doe lay such strong, sure, and deep foundations that from thence in time are derived many noble and worthy families.” Robt. Reyce, Suffolk Breviary, 1618 (ed. London, 1902), p. 58.
[277]. History of Suffolk, vol. I, p. 673.
[278]. Reyce, Breviary, p. 60.
[279]. C. M. Andrews, Introduction to Newton, Puritan Colonisation, p. viii. Robert Reyce, writing of the gentry, in 1618, says: “So againe what with the enterlacing of houses in marriage (a practise at this day much used for the strengthening of families therby) such is the religious unity wherewith in all good actions they doe concur, that whatsoever offendeth one displeaseth all, and whosever satisfieth one contenteth all.” Breviary, p. 60.
[280]. Newton, Puritan Colonisation, pp. 61 ff.; E. J. Carpenter, Roger Williams (New York, 1909), pp. 16-21.
[281]. J. White, The Planter's Plea (Force Tracts), p. 39.
[282]. White, Planter's Plea, p. 43; T. Dudley, “Letter to the Countess of Lincoln,” in Young's Chronicles of the first Planters of Massachusetts (Boston, 1846), p. 310; cf. Osgood, American Colonies, vol. I, p. 130.