A short and private discourse between Mr. Bolton and one M.S. concerning usury. PublishedA short and priuate discourse betweene Mr. Bolton and one M.S. concerning vsury. Published

1. The Common Law did anciently expose the Usurer wholly to the Censure of the Church. But if the Usurer died in this sin, so that the power of the Church could extend no further, because He died out of the Church: yet then the Common Law discovered and discharged its edge and hatred against this cruel sin; by taking vengeance upon Him in His goods, and posterity. Omnes res mobiles, & omnia catalla, quae fuerunt Usurarij mortui, ad usus Domini Regis capientur, penès quemcunque inveniantur res illae. Haeres quoque ipsius hac eadem de causâ exhaeredatur secundum jus regni, & ad Dominum, vel Domines revertetur haereditas. Randulphus de Glanduilla, Hen. 2. lib. 7. cap. 16. His goods were all forfeited to the King, and His Lands returned to the Lords of the fee. Neither was this meant of any immoderate Usury above ten in the hundred. For the same Glanvile, who was Lord chief Justice of England, in the days of Henry the second, teacheth, ⟨p. 33⟩that Usury is committed, when a man having lent anything, that doth consist upon number, weight, or measure, doth take anything over, and above His loan, lib. 10. cap. 3.

1. The Common Law did anciently expose the Vsurer wholy to the Censure of the Church. But if the Vsurer died in this sinne, so that the power of the Church could extend no further, because He died out of the Church: yet then the Common Law discover'd and dischargt its edge and hatred against this cruell sin; by taking vengeance upon Him in His goods, and posterity. Omnes res mobiles, & omnia catalla, quae fuerunt Vsurarij mortui, ad usus Domini Regis capientur, penès quemcunque inveniantur res illae. Haeres quoque ipsius hac eadem de causâ exhaeredatur secundum jus regni, & ad Dominum, vel Domines revertetur haereditas. Randulphus de Glanduilla, Hen. 2. lib. 7. cap. 16. His goods were all forfeited to the King, and His Lands returned to the Lords of the fee. Neither was this meant of any immoderate Vsury above ten in the hundred. For the same Glanvile, who was Lord chiefe Justice of England, in the daies of Henry the second, teacheth, ⟨p. 33⟩that Vsury is committed, when a man having lent anything, that doth consist upon number, weight, or measure, doth take anything over, and above His loane, lib. 10. cap. 3.