[263] Cullum, Hawsted, pp. 196 et seq. In the Hawsted leases, at the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth centuries, it is noteworthy that there were, at a time of repeated complaints against laying down land to pasture, clauses against breaking up pasture land.
[264] In 1677 there were complaints of a fall in rents.
[265] Manydown Manor Rolls, Hampshire Record Society, pp. 178 et seq.
[266] Rawl. A. 170, No. 101.
[267] McPherson, Annals of Commerce, ii. 483.
[268] Ibid. ii. 630.
[269] Ibid. iii. 147. The rental of the lands in England in 1600 was estimated by Davenant at £6,000,000, in 1688 at £14,000,000; and in 1726 by Phillips at £20,000,000. Ibid. iii. 133. In 1850, Caird estimated it at £37,412,000.
[270] With what horror would those legislators have contemplated England's position to-day, when a temporary loss of the command of the sea would probably ruin the country.
[271] 21 Jac. 1, c. 28.
[272] Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (New Series), xix. 116.