[692] Hale’s defence in appendix to Miss Lamond's introduction to The Commonweal of this Realm of England.
[693] D'Ewes Journal, p. 674 (1601). Mr. Johnson said: “In the time of dearth, when we made this Statute, it was not considered that the hand of God was upon us; and now corn is cheap. If too cheap, the husbandman is undone.” See also Raleigh’s speech in the same debate.
[694] e.g. in 1593 the clause in the Act of 1563 forbidding conversion of arable to pasture was repealed. In 1595 and 1596 bad harvests produced loud complaints of high prices, and in 1597 conversion to pasture was again prohibited.
[695] Original Papers of the Norfolk and Norwich Archæological Society, 1907, pp. 131 ff.
[696] Moore’s Reports, p. 117, plea 262, Claypole's case: “Le conseil de Reigne argue que ... l'entent de Estatute fuit que le user sera accompt equivalent en tort al convcon." Judgment was apparently given for the Queen. The decision was quoted as an authority in the debate in Parliament on the Bills introduced in 1597. Hist. MSS. Com., MSS. of Marquis of Salisbury, Part VII., pp. 541–543: “And 26 Eliz. in the Exchequer, in Claypole’s case, an information was exhibited upon the Statute of 4 Hen. VII. against a purchaser for converting of tillage into pasture, and adjudged good, though the purchaser were not the converter, but only a continuer of the first conversion. So as this new law tends but for an instruction and explanation of the old.”
[697] Leadam, Trans. Royal Hist. Soc., New Series, vol. vi.
[698] For Warwick, Herbert, and the St. Johns, see pp. 326, 368, and 362. For Darcy and disturbances in Westmoreland, Gairdner, L. and P. Henry VIII., xii. II., xii. I., 319, xi. 1080. For Paget and Rich, Strype, Ecclesiastical Memorials.
[699] Strype, Ecclesiastical Memorials.
[700] Fisher, The Political History of England, 1485–1547, Appendix II.
[701] Selden Society, Select Cases in the Court of Requests (Leadam).