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And we might go further, and assert, that one good county in England is able to make, at least to support, a greater effort than the whole kingdom was capable of in the reign of Henry V.; when the maintenance of a garrison in a small town like Calais, formed more than a third of the ordinary national expense. Such are the effects of liberty, industry, and good government! * D'Ewes, p. 505.
* Besides the petition after mentioned, another proof of the prevalency of the Puritans among the commons was, their passing a bill for the reverent observance of Sunday, which they termed the Sabbath, and the depriving the people of those amusements which they were accustomed to take on that day. D'Ewes, p. 335.
* D'Ewes, p. 167. D'Ewes, p. 158. * D'Ewes, p. 166. D'Ewes, p. 166. v D'Ewes, p. 167.
We cannot altogether agree with this verdict, since Sir Thomas avenged himself by lending D'Ewes his father's collection of coins; and it is but fair to add that he appears in general to have been no less liberal, one might almost say careless, in lending than his father.
Throughout that century sixty pounds was deemed a sufficient income for a Temple student; and though it was a scant allowance, some young fellows managed to push on with a still more modest revenue. Simonds D'Ewes had £60 per annum during his student course, and £100 a year on becoming an utter-barrister.
Though that prince was extremely frugal, and after the peace of Vervins was continually amassing treasure, the queen never could, by the most pressing importunities, prevail on him to make payment of those sums which she had so generously advanced him during his greatest distresses. * Winwood, vol. i. p. 117 195. D'Ewes, p. 483. * Camden, p. 167. v Birch's Memoirs, vol. ii.
Prynne, who made a conspicuous resistance, was locked up in this way; Sir Robert Harley, Sir William Waller, Sir Samuel Luke, Sir Robert Pye, General Massey, Clement Walker, Sir Simonds D'Ewes, Sir Benjamin Rudyard, and others and others, including even Nathaniel Fiennes, who had shown momentary weakness, were similarly disposed of; till at length the members who had presented themselves were sifted into two divisions a goodly band regularly within the House, and forty-one fuming outside as prisoners in the law-courts.
She only sent Lord Delawar, Sir Ralph Sadler, Sir Thomas Bromley, and Dr. * Camden, p. 440. Strype, vol. ii. App. p. 23. Digges, p. 16, 107. Strype, vol. ii. p. 51, 52. * Digges, p. 194, 208, 209. Strype, vol. ii. p. 40, 51. Camden, p. 442. v D'Ewes, p. 207, 208, etc. v* D'Ewes, p. 219, 241.
On one occasion, Sir Symonds D'Ewes relates that he was thrown headlong into a pond; and on another, we learn from a different source that he was cast over his horse's head into the New River, and narrowly escaped drowning, his boots alone being visible above the ice covering the stream.
D'Ewes, p. 497. * Haynes, p. 461, 462. Stowe, p. 668. By a lucky accident in language, which has a great effect on men's ideas, the invidious word usury which formerly meant the taking of any interest for money, came now to express only the taking of exorbitant and illegal interest. An act passed in 1571 violently condemns all usury; but permits ten per cent, interest to be paid.
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