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<P>A DECLARATION OR Remon&s;trance, TO HIS MAJESTIES Loyal and Faithful Subjects; TOUCHING
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<ITEM>Brokers,</ITEM>
<ITEM>U&s;urers,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Scrivenors,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And Solicitors:</ITEM>
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<P>For, and in behalf of all Merchants, Citizens, Countrey-men, and other His Maje&s;ties good Subjects, within the Kingdoms of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Dominion of Wales.</P>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>George-Horton,</HI> 1660. <ADD>Sept 4</ADD></P>
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<HEAD>A DECLARATION TO All His Maje&s;ties loving Subjects, touching Brokers U&s;urers, Scrivenors, and Solicitors; For, and in behalf of all Shoo-makers, Wea|vers Butchers, Victuallers, Chandlers, Dra|pers, Clothworkers, Taylors, Wire-drawers, Gold Smiths, and Silver-Smiths.</HEAD>
<P>_AMong&s;t the re&s;t of His Sacred Maje|&s;ties many Illu&s;trious Titles, which like fair and beautiful Flowers, do adorn &amp; bedeck His Royal Crown, there's <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">one exc<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">eds and excels all the re&s;t, a&s;well in Vertue as in Beau|ty,
<PB N="2" REF="3">and that is His Title of Defender of the Faith, &amp;c. And, indeed, as that Title is his Maje&s;ties Honour, &s;o the Truth of it is His Subjects Happi|ne&s;&s;e. For, neith<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">r the highe&s;t Prov<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">c tions, nor the &s;tronge&s;t Tempt<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">tions that ever Prince met withall, hath been able to &s;lake his <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ictorious Faith, nor abate his holy Zeal: Witne&s;&s;e his Gracious Maje&s;ties fir&s;t Act, after his Return <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">o the Exerci&s;e of his Regal Power, in his early and timely &s;uppre&s;|&s;ing Prophanene&s;&s;e and di&s;countenancing debaucht per&s;ons, who know not how to expre&s;&s;e their Thankfulne&s;&s;e unto GOD for Mercies, but by a &s;in|ful drinking them away; a practi&s;e his Maje&s;ties Soul a<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">hors.</P>
<P>The&s;e his eminent Vertues, and excellent Qualifi|cations that God hath be&s;towed upon Him, to make him every way wo<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">thy and fit for Government, in|vit<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">d the Parliament, with joyful <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">earts, to make their humble Addre&s;&s;es to his Maje&s;ty for his Roy|all A&s;&s;ent to &s;everal Bills; Among&s;t whi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">h, the Bill intituled, An Act to prevent the taking of exce&s;&s;ive U&s;u<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">y, was by his Maj<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ty &s;igned, to the great con|tentment of all Loyal and Faithful Subjects.</P>
<P>The re&s;training men of avaritious minds who&s;e Con&s;ciences are as large as their Bags, will be a great ea&s;e to the People, and an inablement to
<PB N="3" REF="3">the Merchants the better to go on with their Trades. They are the laborious Bees that bring in Honey into his Maje&s;ties Hive; and U&s;urers are the lazie, idle Dron<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">s, <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">hat rob this precious Hive of the honey.</P>
<P>For preventing all &s;uch Abu&s;es for the Future, It is Enacted by the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, and the Lords and Commons in this pre&s;ent Par|liament A&s;&s;embled, That no per<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">on or per&s;ons what&s;oever, from and after the 29th day of Septem|ber, 1660. upon any Contract, &s;hall from and after the &s;aid Day, take directly o<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> indi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ectly for Loane of any Mo<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ies, Wares, Merchandi&s;e, or o<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">her Com|modities what&s;oever, above the value o<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;ix pounds for the Forbearance of one hundred pounds for a year, and &s;o after that Rate for a greater or le&s;&s;er &s;um or for a longer or &s;horter time. And that all Bonds, Contracts, and A&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">r<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">nc<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">'s what&s;oever, made after the time afore<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">aid, for payment of any Principall or Money to be lent or covenan<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ed to be per&s;on|med upon or for any U&s;ury.</P>
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<P> Whereupon or whereby there &s;hall be re&s;erved or taken above the rate of &s;ix pounds in the hun|dred as afore&s;a<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">d &s;hall be utterly void.</P>
<P>And all per&s;ons what<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">oever, who &s;hall after the 29 day of September, are hereby de&s;ired to take no|tice, That if any per&s;on or per&s;ons &s;hall take, accept, and receive, by way or means of any corrupt Bargain, Loan, Exchange, Shift, or Intere&s;t of any Wares or Merchandi&s;e what&s;oever, or by any deceitful way, or conveyance, for the forbearing or giving day of payment for one whole year, of and for their Mo|ney, or other thing, above the &s;um of &s;ix pounds for the forbearing of one hundred pounds for a year, and &s;o after that Rate for a greater or le&s;&s;er &s;um, or for a longer and &s;horter Terme, &s;hall forfeit &amp; lo&s;e for every &s;uch Offence, the treble value of the Mo|nies, Wares, Merchandi&s;e, and other things &s;o lent, bargained, &s;old, exchanged, or &s;hifted. And all Scri|venors, Brokers, Solicitors, Drivers of Bargains for Contra<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ts, who &s;hall after the &s;aid 39. day of Sep|tember, take or receive, directly or indirectly, any Sum or Sums of Money, or other Reward or Thing for Brokage, Soliciting, Driving, or procuring the Loan, or forbearing of any Sum or Sums of Money, over and above the Rate or value of five &s;hillings for the Loane, or forbearing of one hundred pounds for
<PB N="5" REF="4">a year, and &s;o rateably, or above twelve pence for making or renewing of the Bond or Bill for the Loane, or for forbearing thereof, or for any Coun|terbond or Bill concerning the &s;ame, &s;halll Forfeit for every &s;uch Offence twenty pounds, and have im|pri&s;onment for half a year: The one moyety of all which Forfeitures to be to the King our Sove|raign Lord, His Heirs and Succe&s;&s;ors; And the other moiety to the per&s;ons that &s;hall &s;ue for the &s;ame, in the &s;ame County where the &s;everal Offences are committed, and not el&s;ewhere.</P>
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