The generation for whom he laboured and wrote were not ripe for their reception and realization; and his voice sounded among the people like that of one crying in the wilderness.

But though his exhortations to industry and his large plans of national improvement failed to work themselves into realities in his own time, he broke the ground, he sowed the seed, and it may be that even at this day we are in some degree reaping the results of his labours.

At all events, his books still live to show how wise and sagacious Andrew Yarranton was beyond his contemporaries as to the true methods of establishing upon solid foundations the industrial prosperity of England.
[1] PATRICK EDWARD DOVE, Elements of Political Science.

Edinburgh, 1854.
[2] A copy of the entries in the parish register relating to the various members of the Yarranton family, kindly forwarded to us by the Rev.H.W.Cookes, rector of Astley, shows them to have resided in that parish for many generations.

There were the Yarrantons of Yarranton, of Redstone, of Larford, of Brockenton, and of Longmore.