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A preparative to marriage The sum whereof was spoken at a contract, and enlarged…A preparatiue to mariage The summe whereof was spoken at a contract, and inlarged…
A preparative to marriage The sum whereof was spoken at a contract, and enlarged after. Whereunto is annexed a treatise of the Lords Supper, and another of usury. By Henry Smith.A preparatiue to mariage The summe whereof was spoken at a contract, and inlarged after. Whereunto is annexed a treatise of the Lords Supper, and another of vsurie. By Henrie Smith.
London: printed by Thomas Orwin for Thomas Man, 1591
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Some will not take Usury, but they will have the use of your pasture, 1or your land, or your orchard, or your team, or your kine, until you pay the money again, which in that time will grow to a greater gain to the Usurer, and a greater loss to the borrower, than if he had paid more money than other Usurers are wont to take.
Some will not take Vsurie, but they will haue the vse of your pasture, 1or your lande, or your orchard, or your teame, or your kine, vntill you pay the money againe, which in that time will grow to a greater gaine to the Vsurer, and a greater losse to the borower, than if he had paid more money than other Vsurers are wont to take.
- 11. The kinds of Usurers.1. The kinds of Vsurers.
Some will not take Usury, but 1they will take plate, and vessel, and tapestry, and bedding, and other household stuff, to use and wear, until their money come home, which will lose more in the wearing, than the interest of the money would come to. This Usury is forbidden in the 2. of Amos, where God complaineth saying, They lye down upon the clothes which are laid to pledge: showing, ⟨image 145⟩that we should not lye down upon such clothes, that is, we should not use or wear the thing which is laid to pledge.
Some will not take Vsurie, but 1they will take plate, and vessell, and tapistree, and bedding, and other houshold stuffe, to vse and weare, vntill their money come home, which will lose more in the wearing, than the interest of the money would come to. This Vsurie is forbidden in the 2. of Amos, where God cōplaineth saying, They lye downe vpon the clothes which are layd to pledge: shewing,