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William Lewins
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Under
the
Tudor
dynasty,
marvellous
strides
were
taken
in
the
social
progress
of
the
country.
The
habits
of
a
great
nation
can,
of
course,
only
change
slowly;
but,
notwithstanding,
the
England
of
the
Plantagenets
was
a
different
country
to
the
England
which
Elizabeth
left
in
1603.
The
development
of
trade,
which
really
commenced
with
the
Tudors,
gave
the
first
great
impulse
to
a
new
social
era.
People
began
to
feel
more
interest
in
each
other,
and
as
this
became
manifest,
the
demand
for
interchange
of
thought
and
news
became
more
and
more
urgent.
In
the
reign
of
Henry
VIII.
the
English
people
began
a
considerable
trade
with
Flanders
in
wool.
A
commercial
treaty
subsequently
gave
free
ingress
and
egress
to
the
ships
of
both
nations.
The
change
that
this
new
trade
wrought
was
immediate
and
striking.
English
rural
districts
which
had
before
been
self-supporting--growing
their
own
corn
and
feeding
their
own
cattle--now
turned
their
corn-land
into
pasture-land,
and
sought
grain
among
their
neighbours.
The
dissolution
of
the
monasteries
under
the
same
monarch
had
the
effect,
among
other
results,
of
scattering
broadcast
over
the
country
those
who
had
previously
lived
together
and
enjoyed
almost
a
monopoly
of
learning.
The
Reformation
civilized
as
well
as
christianized
the
people.
Other
causes
were
at
work
which
operated
in
opening
out
the
country,
and
encouraging
habits
of
locomotion
and
the
spread
of
intelligence
generally.
Amongst
many
such,
were
changes,
for
instance,
in
the
routine
of
law
procedure,
introduced
by
Henry.
Up
to
his
time,
courts
of
arbitration
had
sat
from
time
immemorial
within
the
different
baronies
of
England,
where
disputes,
especially
those
between
landlord
and
tenant,
were
cheaply
and
equitably
adjusted.
Now,
such
cases
were
ordered
to
be
taken
to
London,
and
country
people
found
themselves
compelled
to
take
journeys
to
London
and
sue
or
be
sued
at
the
new
courts
of
Westminster.[7]
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