Note 276 — Chapter VI · NEW ENGLAND AND THE GREAT MIGRATION

“Our yeomanry, whose continuall under living, saving, and the immunities from the costly charge of these unfaithfull times, do make them so as to grow with the wealth of this world, that whilst many of the better sort, as having past their uttermost period, do suffer an utter declination, these onely doe arise, and doe lay such strong, sure, and deep foundations that from thence in time are derived many noble and worthy families.” Robt. Reyce, Suffolk Breviary, 1618 (ed. London, 1902), p. 58.