A history of pawnbroking, past and presentW. Jackson, 1847 - 102 strani |
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... Pawn - house , exactly copied from the original , and which , notwithstanding its ancient phraseology , will convey to the reader much instruction and some amusement . In concluding this Chapter , we think we cannot do better than ...
... Pawn - house , exactly copied from the original , and which , notwithstanding its ancient phraseology , will convey to the reader much instruction and some amusement . In concluding this Chapter , we think we cannot do better than ...
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... Pawn House . This curious frag- ment forms a part of the Hargrave MSS . , and we have reason to think that this is ... Pawnehouse for that purpose to be provided , and to be governed or directed and dis- posed of by a Treasurer , 4 ...
... Pawn House . This curious frag- ment forms a part of the Hargrave MSS . , and we have reason to think that this is ... Pawnehouse for that purpose to be provided , and to be governed or directed and dis- posed of by a Treasurer , 4 ...
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... Pawnehouse uppon pawnes 300,000 £ ; and if a man consider what may be borrowed upon household stuffe , what upon clothes , jewels , houses , and lands , and howe many doe noweadayes in and about ... Pawne - house , at 500 € le peece 52.
... Pawnehouse uppon pawnes 300,000 £ ; and if a man consider what may be borrowed upon household stuffe , what upon clothes , jewels , houses , and lands , and howe many doe noweadayes in and about ... Pawne - house , at 500 € le peece 52.
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W. A. H. Hows. '66 Pawne - house , at 500 € le peece per annum • · Two clerkes for the house , to keep the Lidger - booke , Register - booke , and accompts , both of principal , stocke increase , money taken upon interest , and to ...
W. A. H. Hows. '66 Pawne - house , at 500 € le peece per annum • · Two clerkes for the house , to keep the Lidger - booke , Register - booke , and accompts , both of principal , stocke increase , money taken upon interest , and to ...
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... Pawne - house will not suf- fice to supplie the said charges of the Pawne - house , then that the said charges shalbe defalketh out of his Majestie's part , and soe likewise what shalbe more amounting of the said one - third part of the ...
... Pawne - house will not suf- fice to supplie the said charges of the Pawne - house , then that the said charges shalbe defalketh out of his Majestie's part , and soe likewise what shalbe more amounting of the said one - third part of the ...
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Act of Parliament aforesaid Aldermen allsoe ancient annum apparell appears Author Banks of Loan beinge benefit Bill Bishop bonds borrowed Brokers byzants called CHAPTER charge Charitable Corporation Charity Christian citie of London citizens cittie commercial common Company divers endeavours England established extort forasmuch Foreign Merchants Gentleman's Magazine gett give Goldsmiths handbill Henry Henry Fielding Henry VIII household stuffe Hume hundred hundreth interest interest-money Jeremy Bentham jewels Jews Justice kers kinde King lend lent liberties likewise Lombard Merchants Lombard-street Lord Magistrates Maitland Majestie Majestie's Mayor Money-lenders moneyes noebodie officers owner Parliament Paulus Diaconus Pawn Pawnbroker's Pawnbrokers Pawne-house peece persons perticuler poor pounds present profit purloyned putt their money reader ready money redeemed retailing Brokers robbed robberies shalbe shillings shops Society sold Statute stolen stollen taken thieves things three balls tion Trade tradesmen tyme usurers usury whome wilbe
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Stran 14 - dead bodies over the walls upon the populace, and then, setting fire to the houses, perished in the flames. " The gentry of the neighbourhood, who were all indebted to the Jews, ran to the Cathedral, where their bonds were kept, and made a solemn bonfire of the papers before the altar.
Stran 35 - and it is impossible to conceive the number of inconveniences that will ensue if borrowing be cramped; therefore to speak of the abolishing of usury is idle; all states have had it in one kind
Stran 10 - William the King friendly salutes William the Bishop and Godfrey the Portreve, and all the Burgesses within London, both French and English. And I declare that I grant you to be all law-worthy, as you were in the days of King Edward ; * and I grant that every child shall be his father's heir, after
Stran 86 - had some few imperfections in his Magistratical capacity. I own I have been sometimes inclined to think that this office of a Justice of the Peace requires some knowledge of the law : for this simple reason ; because, in every case which comes before him, he is to judge
Stran 34 - in some other it advanceth it; for it is certain that the greatest part of trade is driven by young merchants upon borrowing at interest; so as if the usurer either
Stran 34 - back his money, there will ensue presently a great stand of trade. The second is, that were it not for this easy borrowing upon interest, men's necessities would draw upon
Stran 87 - and I pawned them for five shillings, which I gave for the gown that's upon my back ; and as for the money in my pocket, it is every farthing of it my own. I am sure I intended to carry back the articles as soon as ever I could get the money to take them out.
Stran 29 - love of money naturally led him to encourage commerce, which increased his Customs ; but if we may judge by most of the laws enacted during his reign trade and industry were rather hurt than promoted by the care and attention given to them. Severe laws were made against taking interest for money, which was
Stran 13 - The rumour was spread that the King had issued orders to massacre all the Jews ; a command so agreeable was executed in an instant on such as fell into the hands of the populace ; those who had kept at home were exposed to equal danger. The people, moved
Stran 30 - The business of a Money-lender,* though only among Christians and in Christian times a proscribed profession, has nowhere nor at any time been a popular one. Those who have the resolution to sacrifice the present to the future are natural objects of envy to those who have sacrificed the future