Religion and the Rise of Capitalism

Sixteenth Century, pp. 365⁠–⁠70. ↩

Latimer, Seven Sermons before Edward VI (English Reprints, ed. E. Arber, 1895), pp. 84⁠–⁠6. ↩

Pleasure and Pain, in Select Works of Robert Crowley, ed. J. M. Cowper, p. 116. ↩

The Way to Wealth, in Select Works of Robert Crowley, ed. J. M. Cowper, p. 132. ↩

Lever, Sermons, 1550 (English Reprints, ed. E. Arber, 1895), p. 130. ↩

“A Prayer for Landlords,” from A Book of Private Prayer set forth by Order of King Edward VI. ↩

Bacon, Of the True Greatness of the Kingdom of Britain. ↩

For a discussion of the problem of credit as it affected the peasant and small master, see my introduction to Wilson’s Discourse Upon Usury, 1925, pp. 17⁠–⁠30. ↩

See note 71. ↩

D’Ewes, Journals, 1682, p. 173. ↩

Calendar S.P.D. Eliz., vol. CCLXXXVI, nos. 19, 20. ↩

For examples see S. O. Addy, Church and Manor, 1913, chap. XV. The best account of parish business and organization is given by S. L. Ware, The Elizabethan Parish in Its Ecclesiastical and Financial Aspects, 1908. ↩

Lever, Sermons, 1550 (English Reprints, ed. E. Arber, 1895), p. 130. See also Harrison, The Description of Britaine, 1587 ed., bk. II, chap. XVIII. ↩

A Godlie Treatise Concerning the Lawful Use of Riches, a translation by Thos. Rogers from the Latin of Nicholas Heming, 1578, p. 8. ↩

Sandys, 2nd, 10th, 11th, and 12th of Sermons (Parker Society, 1841); Jewel, Works, pt. IV, pp. 1293⁠–⁠8 (Parker Society, 1850); Thos. Wilson, A Discourse Upon Usury, 1572; Miles Mosse, The Arraignment and Conviction of Usurie, 1595; John Blaxton, The English Usurer, or Usury Condemned by the Most Learned and Famous Divines of the Church of England, 1634. ↩

A Godlie Treatise Concerning the Lawful Use of Riches, a translation by Thos. Rogers from the Latin of Nicholas Heming, 1578, pp. 16⁠–⁠17. ↩

Roger Fenton, A Treatise of Usurie, 1612, p. 59. ↩

Thos. Wilson, A Discourse Upon Usury, 1925 ed., p. 281. ↩

Miles Mosse, The Arraignment and Conviction of Usurie, 1595. ↩

S.P.D. Eliz., vol. LXXV, no. 54. (Printed in Tawney and Power, Tudor Economic Documents, vol. III, pp. 359⁠–⁠70). ↩

A Godlie Treatise Concerning the Lawful Use of Riches, a translation by Thos. Rogers from the Latin of Nicholas Heming, 1578, p. 11. ↩

Maitland, English Law and the Renaissance, 1901. ↩

Quoted by Maitland, English Law and the Renaissance, 1901, pp. 49⁠–⁠50. ↩

Thos. Wilson, A Discourse Upon Usury, 1572. ↩

Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, 1660, bk. III, ch. III, par. 30. ↩

Miles Mosse, The Arraignment and Conviction of Usurie, 1595. Dedication, p. 6. ↩

E. Cardwell, Synodalia, 1842, p. 436. ↩

Cardwell, The Reformation of the Ecclesiastical Laws, 1850, pp. 206, 323. ↩

The Remains of Archbishop Grindal, ed. Wm. Nicholson (Parker Soc., 1843), p. 143. ↩

See, e.g., W. P. M. Kennedy, Elizabethan Episcopal Administration, 1924, vol. III, p. 180 (Archdeacon Mullins’ Articles for the Archdeaconry of London (1585): “Item, whether you do know that within your parish there is (or are) any person or persons notoriously known or suspected by probable tokens or common fame to be an usurer; or doth offend by any colour or means directly or indirectly in the same”), and pp. 184, 233; Wilkins, Concilia, vol. IV, pp. 319, 337, 416. ↩

Cardwell, Synodalia, vol. I, pp. 144, 308; Wilkins, Concilia, vol. IV, p. 509. ↩

S. L. Ware, The Elizabethan Parish in Its Ecclesiastical and Financial Aspects, 1908, quotes several examples. See also Archæologia Cantiana, vol. XXV, 1902, pp. 27, 48 (Visitations of the Archdeacon of Canterbury). ↩

Hist. MSS. Com., 13th Report, 1892, Appx., pt. IV, pp. 333⁠–⁠4 (MSS. of the Borough of Hereford). ↩

W. H. Hale, A Series of Precedents and Proceedings in Criminal Causes, 1847, p. 166. ↩

Yorkshire Arch. Journal, vol. XVIII, 1895, p. 331. ↩

Commissary of London Correction Books, 1618⁠–⁠1625 (H. 184, pp. 164, 192). I am indebted to Mr. Fincham of Somerset House (where the books are kept) for kindly calling my attention to these cases. The shorter of them (p. 192) runs as follows:

Sancti Botolphi extra Aldersgate Thomas Witham at the signe of the Unicorne

Detected for an usurer that taketh above the rate of x^li in the 100^li and above the rate of 2s. in the pound for money by him lent for a yeare, or more than after that rate for a lesse tyme ex fama prout in rotula. Quo die comparuit, etc.

9mo Maii 1620 coram domino officiali principali etc. et in eius camera etc. comparuit dictus Witham et ei objecto ut supra allegavit that he is seldom at home himselfe but leaves his man to deale in the business of his shop, and yf any