[353] Eden, State of the Poor, i. 228.
[354] If we allow that most of the two last classes enumerated were country folk. For the decline of the yeoman class, see chap. xviii.
[355] Evelyn's Diary.
[356] Tooke, History of Prices, i. 23.
[357] Fowle, Poor Law, p. 63.
[358] Hasbach, op. cit. p. 66, says, 'the abuses complained of in the preamble (of the Act) did actually exist.'
[359] Hasbach, op. cit. pp. 67, 134, says the statute of 1662 did not entail so much evil by hindering migration as is generally supposed.
[360] Shropshire County Records: Abstracts of the orders made by the Court of Quarter Sessions, 1638-1782, pp. xxiv, xxv.
[361] See above, p. 70. 13 Eliz., c. 13. McCulloch, Commercial Dictionary (1852), p. 412.
[362] Cunningham, English Industry and Commerce, ii. 371.