 | John Lingard - 1847 - 426 pages
...rate of interest from ten to eight per cent., but with a proviso that " it " should not be construed to allow the practice of usury in point of religion " or conscience." St»t. iv. 1223. AD 1624.] INTRIGUE AGAINST BUCKINGHAM. 223 For three mouths the Spanish ambassadors,... | |
 | Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - 1849 - 714 pages
...to 8 per cent, (c. 17,) with the provision, " that this statute shall not bo construed or expounded to allow the practice of usury in point of religion or conscience." (Paley's Mor. and Polit Philos. Book in., Part i., chap 10. Note.) During the Commonwealth, (in 1650,)... | |
 | John Lingard - 1854 - 330 pages
...rate of interest from ten to eight per cent., but with a proviso that " it should not be construed to allow the practice of usury in point of religion or conscience." — Stat. iv 1223. . — Papers, i. 480. The hearing to which M alludes was granted the next day, t&8... | |
 | John Lingard - 1855 - 312 pages
...rate of interest from ten to eight per cent., but with a proviso that " it should not be construed to allow the practice of usury in point of religion or conscience." — Stat. iv. 1223. 2 Buckingham thus expresses his discontent to James : " In obedience to your commands,... | |
 | William Brown (of Montreal.) - 1858 - 64 pages
...at 8 per cent, with this reservation : — " That this statute shall not be construed or expounded to allow the practice of usury in point of religion or conscience." Tkere is something exceedingly amusing in this provision ; and these old legislators, whatever their... | |
 | 1865 - 792 pages
...reduced to £8 per cent., and it was further ruled that ' nothing ' nothing in the law shall be construed to allow the practice of usury in point of religion or conscience.' During the year 1650 the rate was lowered to £6, and the some reduction was re-enacted after the Reformation... | |
 | Francis Baily - 1866 - 350 pages
...considered equally proper to declare that " No words in this law contained shall be construed or expounded to allow the practice of usury, in point of religion or conscience." f It was afterwards reduced to 6 per cent by an ordinance of the Rump Parliament in 1651, which was... | |
 | 1891 - 958 pages
...interest until a proviso was inserted that " nothing in this law contained shall be construed or expounded to allow the practice of usury in point of religion or conscience." The old view cropped out from time to time in various public declarations. Among these was the book of... | |
 | Theophilus Parsons - 1873 - 884 pages
...Jac. I, reducing the mte to eight per cent, provides, that " nothing in the law shall 1ю construed to allow the practice of usury in point of religion or conscience." Rolle says that this clause was introduced to snti-f'y the bishops, who would not pass tho bill without... | |
 | Chauncey F. Black, Samuel B. Smith - 1881 - 556 pages
...First, reducing the rate to eight per cent., provided that nothing in the law should be " construed to allow the practice of usury in point of religion or conscience," a clause introduced, it is said, to satisfy the bishops, who would not vote for the bill without it.... | |
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Is sin, and detestable;" and the statute of 21 James the First, reducing the rate to eight per cent, provided that nothing in the law should be "construed to allow the practice of usury in point of religion or conscience... 
