The persecutions of the dissenters, or, more properly speaking, the restraints imposed upon them contributed to augment and people these colonies.

Dr.Davenant affirms,[*] that the shipping of England more than doubled during these twenty-eight years.

Several new manufactures were established; in iron brass, silk, hats, glass, paper, etc.

One Brewer, leaving the Low Countries when they were threatened with a French conquest, brought the art of dying woollen cloth into England, and by that improvement saved the nation great sums of money.

The increase of coinage during these two reigns was ten millions two hundred and sixty-one thousand pounds.