It was to the selfish panic of the landowners that England owed the Statute of Labourers and its terrible heritage of pauperism.

It was to the selfish panic of both landowner and merchant that she owed the despotism of the Monarchy.
[Sidenote: The Nevilles] Thus we find that in the years which followed the Wars of the Roses a change passed over the spirit of English government which was little short of a revolution.

As the country tasted the sweets of rest and firm government that reaction of feeling, that horror of fresh civil wars, that content with its own internal growth and indifference to foreign aggrandizement, which distinguished the epoch of the Tudors, began to assert its power.

The Crown became identified with the thought of national prosperity, almost with the thought of national existence.

Loyalty drew to itself the force of patriotism.