Note 269 — Chapter XI
Reading edition
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.