at whoever will take the trouble to compare the last returns
of hearth money in the reign of William the Third with the census of
1841, will come to a conclusion not very different from mine.]

[Footnote 40: There are in the Pepysian Library some ballads of that age
on the chimney money. I will give a specimen or two:

"The good old dames whenever they the chimney man espied,
Unto their nooks they haste away, their pots and pipkins hide.
There is not one old dame in ten, and search the nation through,
But, if you talk of chimney men, will spare a curse or two."

Again:

"Like plundering soldiers they'd enter the door,
And make a distress on the goods of the poor.
While frighted poor children distractedly cried;
This nothing abated their insolent pride."

In the British Museum there are doggrel verses composed on the
same subject and in the same spirit:

"Or, if through poverty it be not paid
For cruelty to tear away the single bed,
On which the poor man rests his weary head,
At once deprives him of his rest and bread."

I take this opportunity the first which occurs, of acknowledging most
grateful the kind and liberal manner in which the Master and Vicemaster
of Magdalei College, Cambridge, gave me access to the valuable
collections of Pepys.]

[Footnote 41: My chief authorities for this financial statement will be
found in the Commons' Journal, March 1, and March 20, 1688-9.]

[Footnote 42: See, for example, the picture of the mound at Marlborough,
in Stukeley's Dinerarium Curiosum.]

[Footnote 43: Chamberlayne's State of England, 1684.]

[Footnote 44: 13 and 14 Car. II. c. 3; 15 Car. II. c. 4. Chamberlayne's
State of England, 1684.]

[Footnote 45: Dryden, in his Cymon and Iphigenia, expressed, with his
usual keenness and energy, the sentiments which had been fashionable
among the sycophants of James the Second:--

"The country rings around with loud alarms,
And raw in fields the rude militia swarms;
Mouths without hands, maintained at vast expense,
Stout once a month they march, a blustering band,
And ever, but in time of need at hand.
This was the morn when, issuing on the guard,
Drawn up in rank and file, they stood prepared
Of seeming arms to make a short essay.
Then hasten to be drunk, the business of the day."]

[Footnote 46: Most of the materials which I have used for this
account of the regular army wi