[944] Cott. MSS., Otho E. VII, f. 263.
[945] Mr Del Mar (Hist. of the Precious Metals, p. 209), quoting Tooke and D’Avenant, estimates the stock of gold and silver coin in England and Wales in 1560 at £1,100,000 and in 1600 at £4,000,000.
[946] Martin, Hist. de la France, X, 446.
[947] Kolb, Condition of Nations, p. 209.
[948] Gardiner, Hist. of England, X, 222.
[949] Parl. Debates, 31st Aug. 1660.
[950] A writer of the reign of James I estimated that there were 37,000 Dutch seamen engaged in the North Sea fisheries alone; Ralegh put the number at 50,000 men.
[951] State Papers, Dom., Charles I, vi, 23. The original purpose had been to take 2000 English veterans in the service of the States-General, leaving the recruits in their place; but the men were sent before any arrangement had been come to with the Dutch, who finally refused to assent to it. The proceeding was characteristic of Buckingham’s hopeful belief in the immediate acceptance of his measures.
[952] ‘The number of lame, impotent, and unable men unfitt for actual service is very great.’ (Ogle to Conway, 18th June 1625.)
[953] Ibid., ix, 15, Blundell to Buckingham.