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A09633	Usuries spright coniured: or A scholasticall determination of vsury by T.P. Doct. of Divinity, being moderator at the disputing thereof by certeine Bachelers of Divinitie and other learned preachers: with his answere to a treatise, written in defence of vsurie; Usuries spright conjured: or A scholasticall determination of usury.	Pie, Thomas, 1560-1610.	1604 (1604)	STC 19901; ESTC S105929	60,993	102

USURIES SPRIGHT CONIURED OR A Scholasticall Determination of Vsury by T.P. Doct. of Divinity being Moderator at the disputing thereof by certeine Bachelers of Divinitie and other learned Preachers With his Answere to a Treatise written in defence of Vsurie BASIL hom adv usur 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Seene and allowed LONDON Printed by MELCHISEDECH BRADVVOOD dwelling in the Little-Old-Bailie in Eliots Court 1604. TO THE RIGHT Honourable my singular good Lord the Earle of Dorset L. high Treasurer of England Knight of the noble Order of the Garter and of his Maiesties Honourable Priuy Councell THere haue bene manie excellent men in our Church Right Honourable that haue written exceeding well against the common but crying sinne of Usurie among other whom for Honors sake I name the Reuerend Praelate I. Iewel L. Bishop of Sarum the most accomplisht Diuine D. Humfrie publike Reader of Oxford and the sage Counsellour and wise States-man D. VVilson Secretarie to our Queene Elizabeth of aeternall memorie All whose learned discourses sound reasons impregnable arguments godly admonitions and seuere cōminations little prevailing with the deafe Usurers for that the same are over growen a Math. 13. and choked in their thornie hearts with the deceitfulnesse of riches that they could not yeeld their due and wished fruite it hath seemed good to some other since them to deale with Usurie by course of Law and judiciarie proceeding Whereupon at Oxford Usurie was b Potions concerning Usury by G. Powell set upon and apprehended at London c Examination of Usurie by M. Smith examined d Arraignmēt and conuiction of Usury by M. Mosse arrained and convicted at S. Edmondsburie and lastly at Cambridge executed and put to e The death of Usury printed at Cambridge death and yet notwithstanding all this Usurie is as rife in this land and as commonly and cruelly practized as euer I thinke in any age before as Iewishly as when the Iewes were heere in their prime as unmercifully as when the cursed Caorsini the Popes factors by his holie countenance were here in their pride Which thing as I conceiued could not otherwise be after Usuries death but that his ghost or spright did walke Wherefore taking my Bookes in hand I thought good to conjure this spright and therein haue gone so farre as your L. may see in this short discourse that I haue made the spright to speak and to tell both his name and nature who called him vp and what makes him walke But to bind the spright or to laie him Hic labor hoc opus est not unwoorthy the labour of great Hercules that could binde the three-headed Cerberus shoot thorow the fell eagle which fed vpon Prometheus bowels or the cunning of the great Miracle-maker and diuel-driuer Gregorius Thaumaturgus which could f Gregorius Satanae Ingredere Niss mesus vita Caes Bar. annal tom 2. Anno. 253. nu 137. write the diuel himselfe apasseport and send him packing whence and whither he pleased Indeed I finde and confesse that it passeth my cunning and power without the aid of some greater skill and abilitie Wherefore right Honorable seeing Almighty God hath blessed you with great advauncementes both of dignitie and honor and also of autoritie and power in this common-wealth and that by your great office of high Treasurer you haue many imployments and daily experience in the vertue 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Aristotle termes it whereof Usurie is a deadly enemie Arist Eth. lib. 4. c. 3. Idem Polit. l. 1. c. 7. I make bolde to craue your Honorable helpe heerein that you use the meanes of the great fauor which God hath giuen you in the eies of our gratious King of your high place and authoritie in the State and of that estimation which the whole land hath of your wisedome to the suppressing of this horrible sinne which like a fretting canker eates up and consumes manie notable members and great portions of this common-wealth one part losing or indaungering their goods and state and the other part their soules As we haue had manifold experience of your wisedome in managing matters of great importance for the common good of us all so if by your like care and prudence this canker may be cured undoubtedly the whole common-wealth wil receiue an exceeding great benefite by you being freed from the burthen of Usurie whose nature is such that it is compared by the wise Philosopher g Plutarch lib. de non foenerand Plutarke to Vultures which gnaw the guttes out of a mans bellie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Homer saide by the expert antiquarie h Antiq lect l. 12. c. 24. Coelius Secundus upon the experience of the poore old forlorne debtor i Liu. Dec. 1. l. 2. in Liuie to a consumption which is contagious and infectious and which creepeth from the goods to the body it selfe by the excellent Ciuillian k Bald. cons 440. Baldus to the worme Teredo which handleth as soft as silke but will bite thorow timber by the autentique Canonist l Sext. decret Gregorie the tenth to a whirlpoole because it swalloweth up wealth and soules by the noble and learned King m Lycosth apopht tit usurae Alfonsus to the Harpyes which deuoured the needy Troians sustenance by the ancient father S. n Chryst in Math. 5. Chrysostome to the serpent Aspis whose stinging casteth a man into a pleasant sleepe so killeth him God who is rich in grace and of infinit glorie increase his graces upon you in this life to the aduancement of his Church and comfort of the common-wealth reward them with eternall glory in the life to come thorow Iesus Christ our Lord. Bexhil March 30. 1604. Your Lordships humble at commandement TH. PIE. A SCHOLASTICALL determination of Usurie upon the disputing of that quaestion by certeine learned Diuines The Praemble to the Disputants AS you haue learnedlie disputed this quaestion of Usurie debated it pro con for the cleering of the Trueth so now let mee lighting my candle at the fire stricken out of these flints make an end of this Conference drawing my speech to three heads in the first whereof I will shew what usurie is in the second prove it to be unlawfull in the third answer the arguments which are urged for the lawfulnesse of it 1 What Vsurie is will best appeare by the Notation of the name by the definition and by the diuision 1 The Notation of the name VSurie hath his name of Usura in Latine but there is this difference betweene them That Usura in Latine is taken according to his proper and generall signification sometime for the same that the masculine a Non Marcel de prop. serm Si pon in epig. 1. usus is as b Plant. in Amphyl usurámque ejus corporis coepit sibi hee tooke the use of her bodie c Cic. pro Sylla Lucísne hanc usuram eripere vis wilt thou take away