and Political Conclusions. Davenant on the
Balance of Trade.]

[Footnote 68: See the Almanacks of 1684 and 1685.]

[Footnote 69: See Mr. M'Culloch's Statistical Account of the British
Empire, Part III. chap. i. sec. 6.]

[Footnote 70: King and Davenant as before The Duke of Newcastle on
Horsemanship; Gentleman's Recreation, 1686. The "dappled Flanders mares"
were marks of greatness in the time of Pope, and even later. The vulgar
proverb, that the grey mare is the better horse, originated, I suspect,
in the preference generally given to the grey mares of Flanders over the
finest coach horses of England.]

[Footnote 71: See a curious note by Tonkin, in Lord De Dunstanville's
edition of Carew's Survey of Cornwall.]

[Footnote 72: Borlase's Natural History of Cornwall, 1758. The quantity
of copper now produced, I have taken from parliamentary returns.
Davenant, in 1700, estimated the annual produce of all the mines of
England at between seven and eight hundred thousand pounds]

[Footnote 73: Philosophical Transactions, No. 53. Nov. 1669, No. 66.
Dec. 1670, No. 103. May 1674, No 156. Feb. 1683-4]

[Footnote 74: Yarranton, England's Improvement by Sea and Land, 1677;
Porter's Progress of the Nation. See also a remarkably perspicnous
history, in small compass of the English iron works, in Mr. M'Culloch's
Statistical Account of the British Empire.]

[Footnote 75: See Chamberlayne's State of England, 1684, 1687, Angliae,
Metropolis, 1691; M'Culloch's Statistical Account of the British Empire
Part III. chap. ii. (edition of 1847). In 1845 the quantity of coal
brought into London appeared, by the Parliamentary returns, to be
3,460,000 tons. (1848.) In 1854 the quantity of coal brought into London
amounted to 4,378,000 tons. (1857.)]

[Footnote 76: My notion of the country gentleman of the seventeenth
century has been derived from sources too numerous to be recapitulated.
I must leave my description to the judgment of those who have studied
the history and the lighter literature of that age.]

[Footnote 77: In the eighteenth century the great increase in the value
of benefices produced a change. The younger sons of the nobility were
allured back to the clerical profession. Warburton in a letter to
Hurd, dated the 6th of July, 1762, mentions this change, which was then
recent. "Our grandees have at last found their way back into the Church.
I only wonder they have been so long about it. But be assured that
nothing but a