all the classes, due to the immediate crisis in the cloth trade, as well as to the more general conditions of the time. Footnote 270: Cunningham, _English Industry_, vol. II, pp. 36, 38; W. A. S. Hewins, _English Trade and Finance, chiefly in the 17th Century_ (London, 1892), p. 108; R. H. Tawney, _The Agrarian Problem, in the 16th Century_ (New York, 1912), p. 405; W. J. Ashley, _Introduction to English Economic History and Theory_ (London, 1893), vol. II, pp. 286-88; G. Slater, “The Inclosure of Common Fields considered geographically,” _Geographical Journal_ (London), vol. XXIX, pp. 39 _f._; M. Aurosseau, “The Arrangement of Rural Populations,” _Geographical Review_, vol. X, pp. 321 _f._ Footnote 271: Newton, _Puritan Colonisation_, p. 79. Footnote 272: _Victoria History of County of Lincoln_ (London, 1906), vol. II, p. 334. Footnote 273: _Victoria History of County of Suffolk_ (London, 1911), vols. I, pp. 661, 676, and II, p. 268. Footnote 274: _Ibid._, vol. II, p. 266. Footnote 275: _Cal. State Pap., Domestic, 1629-31_, p. 419. _Cf._ also, _Ibid._, pp. 8, 403, 419. A few years earlier, Sir Wm. Pelham, writing to his brother-in-law, said: “Our country was never in that wante that now itt is, and more of munnie than Corne, for theare are many thousands in thease parts whoo have soulde all thay have even to theyr bedd straw, and cann not get worke to earne any munny. Dogg's flesh is a dainty dish,” etc. _Lincolnshire Notes and Queries_, vol. I, p. 16. Footnote 276: “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. Footnote 277: _History of Suffolk_, vol. I, p. 673. Footnote 278: Reyce, _Breviary_, p. 60. The district in which these economic changes were at work was also the one in which Puritanism had taken its strongest hold, and the leaders both of the Puritan movement at home and of colonization abroad “formed a veritable clan, intimately bound together by ties of blood, marriage, and neighborhood, acting together in all that concerned colonization on the one hand and autocratic rule on the other.”[279] We have already seen, in an earlier chapter, how the trading companies had brought into working contact the great nobles, city merchants, and country gentlemen, and accustomed them to act together as, perhaps, nothing else could have done, thus paving the way for the formation of the Puritan party. Footnote 279: