Edward III & His Wars, 1327-1360: Extracts from the Chronicles of Froissart, Jehan Le Bel, Knighton, Adam of Murimuth, Robert of Avesbury, the Chronicle of Lanercost, the State Papers, & Other Contemporary Records
Edward III & His Wars, 1327-1360: Extracts from the Chronicles of Froissart, Jehan Le Bel, Knighton, Adam of Murimuth, Robert of Avesbury, the Chronicle of Lanercost, the State Papers, & Other Contemporary Records
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ... 68 SEVEN KINDS OF MONEY. spectfully towards the warden by publicly addressing him as Robert. 1340.--A Lesson on Usury. Ayenbite of Inwyt (Remorse of Conscience), ed. Early English Text Society, p. 35. (The two following extracts are most valuable illustrations of the teaching of the pulpit and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ... 68 SEVEN KINDS OF MONEY. spectfully towards the warden by publicly addressing him as Robert. 1340.--A Lesson on Usury. Ayenbite of Inwyt (Remorse of Conscience), ed. Early English Text Society, p. 35. (The two following extracts are most valuable illustrations of the teaching of the pulpit and confessional. The direct payment of interest was illegal.) There are seven kinds of usury. The first is lending that lendeth silver for other things, where over and above the capital sum the lender taketh the profits either in pence, or in horses, or in corn, or in wine, or in fruits of the ground that he taketh in mortgage, without reckoning these profits as partpayment. And what is worse, he will reckon twice, or even thrice in the year in order to raise the rate of usury, and yet he hath gifts as well for each term; and he maketh often of the usury a principal debt. These are usuries evil and foul. The courteous lender is he that lendeth without always making bargains for profit, either in pence, or in horses, or in cups of gold, or in silver, or in robes, or in tuns of wine, or in fat swine, or in services of horses or carts, or providings for himself or his children, or in any other things that he takes by reason of the loan. This is the first manner of usury, that is, lending wickedly. The other manner of usury is in those that do not themselves lend, but that which their fathers or the fathers of their wives or their elders have received in pledge and THEIR EVIL RESULTS. 69 they inherit, by usury they retain and will not yield it up. The third manner of usury is in them that have shame to lend with their own hand, but they lend their pence through their servants or other men. These are the master money-lenders. Of such sin great men are not...
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