Note 330 — Chapter I · THE NEW RURAL ECONOMY

See e.g. Starkey’s England in the Reign of King Henry VIII., p. 173 (E. E. T. S.): “Ye, and though our cloth, at the fyrst begynnyng, wold not be so gud peradventure, as hyt ys made in other partys, yet, in processe of tyme, I cannot see why, but that our men, by dylygence, myght attayne therto ryght wel; specially yf the Prince wold study thereto, in whose powar hyt lyeth chefely such thyngys to helpe.” Also The Commonweal of this Realm of England (Lamond), and Pauli, Drei Denkschriften, &c.