[51] Selections from those parts of The Christian Directory which bear on social ethics are printed by Jeannette Tawney, Chapters from Richard Baxter’s Christian Directory, 1925, in which most of the passages quoted in the text will be found.
[52] Reliquiæ Baxterianæ (see note 2), p. 1.
[53] Life and Death of Mr. Badman (Cambridge English Classics, 1905), pp. 116-25, where Bunyan discusses at length the ethics of prices.
[54] Carlyle, Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches, Letter ii.
[55] See on these points Weber, op. cit. (note 32 above), p. 94, whose main conclusions I paraphrase.
[56] Milton, A Defence of the People of England (1692 ed.), p. xvii.
[57] See, e.g., Thos. Wilson, A Discourse upon Usury, Preface, 1925 ed., p. 178: “There bee two sortes of men that are alwayes to bee looked upon very narrowly, the one is the dissemblinge gospeller, and the other is the wilfull and indurate papiste. The first under colour of religion overthroweth all religion, and bearing good men in hande that he loveth playnesse, useth covertelie all deceypte that maye bee, and for pryvate gayne undoeth the common welfare of man. And touching thys sinne of usurie, none doe more openly offende in thys behalfe than do these counterfeite professours of thys pure religion.”
[58] Fenton, A Treatise of Usurie, 1612, pp. 60-1.
[59] Brief Survey of the Growth of Usury in England, 1673.
[60] S. Richardson, The Cause of the Poor Pleaded, 1653, Thomason Tracts, E. 703 (9), p. 14. For other references, see note [72] below. For extortionate prices, see Thomason Tracts, E. 399 (6), The Worth of a Penny, or a Caution to keep Money, 1647. I am indebted for this and subsequent references to the Thomason Tracts to Miss P. James.