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

In the Sect. next before, thus: This is not Usury (saith He) Why? Because He that taketh the stock of the Orphan, or of the mad man or of the diseased Merchant i• not bound to answer all adventures, and casualties that happen. As, if to like use I take a stock in cattle, and they die without my default: or a stock in money, or wares, and the wares be burnt by fire, or the money stolen without my default, I am not bound to answer the principal: therefore it is no Usury.

In the Sect. next before, thus: This is not Vsury (saith He) Why? Because Hee that taketh the stocke of the Orphan, or of the mad man or of the diseased Merchant i• not bound to answer all adventures, and casualties that happen. As, if to like use I take a stocke in cattell, and they die without my default: or a stocke in money, or wares, and the wares be burnt by fire, or the money stollen without my default, I am not bound to answer the principall: therefore it is no Usury.

Here now M. S. come you in with your own woeful gloss: and will needs make M. Jewell, (for so you call Him here) the most noble, resolute, powerful confuter and confounder of Usury, that ever J read, to be on your side.

Here now M. S. come you in with your owne wofull glosse: and will needs make M. Iewell, (for so you call Him here) the most noble, resolute, powerfull confuter and confounder of Vsury, that ever J read, to bee on your side.

If a man be not bound, say you, to answer it, (as M. Jewell saith) I pray you in what case shall the poor Orphan, Mad man, or sick Merchant be in, if their stock be gone? It had been better for them, to have had their stock lying still in their hands, and to have lived of it, then when it is gone to starve for hunger.