A history of pawnbroking, past and presentW. Jackson, 1847 - 102 strani |
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... Three Balls - is not parti- cularly mentioned , it may be safely inferred that they were included and known at that time , as the paragraph respecting signs immediately follows that concerning Pawnbrokers . Much has been written and ...
... Three Balls - is not parti- cularly mentioned , it may be safely inferred that they were included and known at that time , as the paragraph respecting signs immediately follows that concerning Pawnbrokers . Much has been written and ...
Stran 44
... Three Balls ; and this appears the proper place to introduce several accounts which , in the course of our researches , wə have met with . Balls , or Balletts , in heraldry , make a frequent bearing in coats of arms , though never so ...
... Three Balls ; and this appears the proper place to introduce several accounts which , in the course of our researches , wə have met with . Balls , or Balletts , in heraldry , make a frequent bearing in coats of arms , though never so ...
Stran 45
... three blue balls , or sometimes golden ones , were after this time hung up at the doors of lesser traders ( Pawnbrokers ) . They represented gilt or painted bubbles , and bubble was a word which came into use when our South Sea scheme ...
... three blue balls , or sometimes golden ones , were after this time hung up at the doors of lesser traders ( Pawnbrokers ) . They represented gilt or painted bubbles , and bubble was a word which came into use when our South Sea scheme ...
Stran 46
... three byzants on a field azure ; the circle ( or roundle , as it is called in he- raldry , ) being when in gold ... balls to the escutcheon of the noble family of Medici . This author also mentions that extravagant joke , had converted the ...
... three byzants on a field azure ; the circle ( or roundle , as it is called in he- raldry , ) being when in gold ... balls to the escutcheon of the noble family of Medici . This author also mentions that extravagant joke , had converted the ...
Stran 47
... three balls are in fact three pills , or cupping - glasses . In corroboration of the latter supposition we may observe , that in a transla- tion of Beckmann's History of Inventions , & c . , lately published by Bohn , we are informed ...
... three balls are in fact three pills , or cupping - glasses . In corroboration of the latter supposition we may observe , that in a transla- tion of Beckmann's History of Inventions , & c . , lately published by Bohn , we are informed ...
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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