[] Idem, t. iii. p. 458, 647, 678, et infra. See too the ordinances of the staple, in 27 Edw. III., which confirm this among other privileges, and contain manifold evidence of the regard paid to commerce in that reign.
[k] Rymer, t. ii. p. 891. Madox, Hist. Exchequer, c. xxii. s. 7.
[m] In the remarkable speech of the Doge Mocenigo, quoted in another place, vol. i. p. 465, the annual profit made by Venice on her mercantile capital is reckoned at forty per cent.
[n] Muratori, Dissert. 16.
[o] Bizarri, Hist. Genuens. p. 797. The rate of discount on bills, which may not have exactly corresponded to the average annual interest of money, was ten per cent. at Barcelona in 1435. Capmany t. i. p. 209.
[p] Du Cange, v. Usura.
[q] Muratori, Diss. 16.
[r] Greg. Turon. I. iv.
[] Hist. de Languedoc, t. ii. p. 517; t. iii. p. 531.
[t] Id. t. iii. p. 121.