A12367:267
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 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, ⟨image 145⟩that wee shoulde not lye downe vppon such clothes, that is, wee should not vse or weare the thing which is layd to pledge.
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Some will take no Usury, but 1they will take a pawn which is better than the money which they lend, and then they will covenant, that if he bring not the money again by such a day, he forfeiteth his pawn: which day the Usurer knoweth, that the poor man is not able to keep, and so keepeth the pawn for his money, which is worth twice his money. This Usury is forbidden in