[139] See Coquelin and Guillaumin, article Intérêt.

[140] See Craik's History of British Commerce, chapter vi. The statute cited is 3 Henry VII., chapter vi.

[141] See Lecky.

[142] See citation from the Tischreden, in Guillaumin and Coquelin, article Intérêt.

[143] See Craik's History of British Commerce, chapter vi.

[144] For citation, as above, see Lecky. For further account, see Œuvres de Bossuet, edition of 1845, vol. xi., p. 330.

[145] See citation from Concina in Lecky; also, acquiescence in this interpretation by Mr. Dickinson, in Speech in Senate of New York, above quoted.

[146] See Réplique des douze Docteurs, etc., cited by Guillaumin and Coquelin.

[147] Burton, History of Scotland, vol. viii., p. 511. See, also, Mause Headrigg's views in Scott's Old Mortality, chapter vii. For the case of a person debarred from the communion for "raising the devil's wind" with a winnowing-machine, see Works of Sir J. Y. Simpson, vol. ii. Those doubting the authority or motives of Simpson may be reminded that he was, to the day of his death, one of the strictest adherents of Scotch orthodoxy.

[148] See Journal of Sir I. Brunel, for May 20, 1827, in Life of I. K. Brunel, p. 30.