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

Hear your own Man, whom you produce as a Patron of Usury, that Reverend and Worthy Jewell: upon 1 Thess. 4. pag. 83. A Merchant taketh up of his Neighbour an hundred pounds, and must answer again an hundred and ten pounds. He bestoweth it all in corn, and buyeth for his hundred pounds, an hundred quarters of corn. He sendeth it to the Market, the people have need of it, and buy it. If He sold it for eight groats a Bushel, he might make up his hundred pounds, and be a gainer. But unless He make up an hundred and ten pounds to discharge his Usury, He must needs be a looser, and undone. But undone He will not be: He will rather undo many others. Therefore He setteth price at three shillings, and so maketh His money, and payeth the Usurer, and saveth Himself, and is no looser. Who then payeth the ten pounds? Who is the looser? Any man may see. The poor people which buy the corn. They find it and feel it in every morsel they eat. Thus, saith He, if the Merchant Borrower be not hindered by the Usurer: yet the people that buyeth His wares are plagued. Thus it is no hard matter to find, that howsoever Usury be used, it is always ⟨p. 17⟩dangerous, and beguileth the people, and is therefore the destruction, and overthrow of the Common-wealth.

Heare your owne Man, whom you produce as a Patron of Vsury, that Reverend and Worthy Iewell: upon 1 Thess. 4. pag. 83. A Merchant taketh up of his Neighbour an hundred pounds, and must answer againe an hundred and ten pounds. He bestoweth it all in corne, and buyeth for his hundred pounds, an hundred quarters of corne. He sendeth it to the Market, the people have need of it, and buy it. If He sold it for eight groats a Bushell, he might make up his hundred pounds, and be a gainer. But unlesse He make up an hundred and ten pounds to discharge his Vsury, He must needs be a looser, and undone. But undone He will not be: Hee will rather undoe many others. Therefore He setteth price at three shillings, and so maketh His money, and paieth the Usurer, and saveth Himselfe, and is no looser. Who then paieth the ten pounds? Who is the looser? Any man may see. The poore people which buy the corne. They finde it and feele it in every morsell they eate. Thus, saith He, if the Merchant Borrower be not hindred by the Usurer: yet the people that buyeth His wares are plagued. Thus it is no hard matter to finde, that howsoever Vsury bee used, it is alwaies