. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . hey had nowlost all contidence, andneither able nor willing towithstand a powerful king,ceased to take an interestin politics, left the nobles,thi^ wealthy merchants,and the rich landownersat the kinds mercy, threwthemselves into commercial or literary ])nrsuits. and began that aecinnulation ol wealthwhich enabled I hem to withstand Charles 1. in the CivilWar. The higher clergy, unpopular with the nation, a
. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . hey had nowlost all contidence, andneither able nor willing towithstand a powerful king,ceased to take an interestin politics, left the nobles,thi^ wealthy merchants,and the rich landownersat the kinds mercy, threwthemselves into commercial or literary ])nrsuits. and began that aecinnulation ol wealthwhich enabled I hem to withstand Charles 1. in the CivilWar. The higher clergy, unpopular with the nation, anddependent on the Crown, acted in coni|)lete harmony withthe wishes of the king, and oftered no resisianee lo theconcentration of all the powers of the State in the handsof Henry himself Henry VII. Avas thus enabled to crush the old baronage, tobegin tentatively tire construction of a ue\7 nobility, and loaid in the growth, it not in the creation, of the middleclasses. In liis severity towards the nobles and rich land-owners the nation fully acquiesced. Order was the onegreat need of tlu time, and in return for order men wen;prepared to stand ly wliile the ];ing pursued his jiolicy.
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