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profits were not only invested in tlie mortgages and settlement 

 charges of heavily burdened estates, but they enabled him to 

 buy out their hereditary owners. There was a great land 

 hunger in these Tudor times, which originated not so much 

 in commercial enterprise as in sentiment, though the success 

 which crowned the industrial efforts of the newly created 

 tenant farmers might have encouraged the former motive. It 

 is worthy of mention, that as soon as the merchant became a 

 landed proprietor he not only turned his back on the old trade 

 associations, but became a staunch supporter of the new interests. 

 It is the same to-day, when the newly imported squire kicks 

 down the ladder by which he has climbed into the select circle 

 of county society, and tries to forget that the capital by which 

 he purchased his lands, was the result of prolonged and honour- 

 able assiduity in the successful production of textile fabrics, or 

 a daring speculation in hardware. 



