[45] Cardwell, The Reformation of the Ecclesiastical Laws, 1850, pp. 206, 323.
[46] The Remains of Archbishop Grindal, ed. Wm. Nicholson (Parker Soc., 1843), p. 143.
[47] 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.
[48] Cardwell, Synodalia, vol. i, pp. 144, 308; Wilkins, Concilia, vol. iv, p. 509.
[49] Ware, op. cit. (see note 29 above), quotes several examples. See also Archæologia Cantiana, vol. xxv, 1902, pp. 27, 48 (Visitations of the Archdeacon of Canterbury).
[50] Hist. MSS. Com., 13th Report, 1892, Appx., pt. iv, pp. 333-4 (MSS. of the Borough of Hereford).
[51] W. H. Hale, A Series of Precedents and Proceedings in Criminal Causes, 1847, p. 166.
[52] Yorkshire Arch. Journal, vol. xviii, 1895, p. 331.
[53] 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 xli in the 100li 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. |