item: #1 of 15 id: A19689 author: Culpeper, Thomas, Sir, 1578-1662. title: A tract against vsurie. Presented to the High Court of Parliament. date: 1621 words: 5390 flesch: 57 summary: And yet that which is aboue all the rest , the greatest sinne against the Land is , that it makes the Land it selfe of small value , neerer the rate of new-found Lands , than of any other Countrie ▪ where Lawes , gouernement , and peace , haue so long flourished ; For the high rate of Vsury makes Land sell so cheape ; and the cheape sale of Land is the cause men seeke no more by industry and cost to improue them : and this is plaine both by example , and demonstration ; for we see in other Countries , where the vse of money is of a low rate , Lands are generally sold for 30. Now because I know mens priuate interests doth many times blinde their iudgements , and least any may be tempted for their owne , against the publique good , I will desire them to remember , that if they haue Lands as well as money , that what they loose in their money they shall get it in their Land ; for Land and money are euer in ballance one against the other , and where money is deere , Land is cheape ; and where money is cheape , Land is deere . keywords: land; money; purchase; rate; trade; vse; vsury; yeeres cache: A19689.xml plain text: A19689.txt item: #2 of 15 id: A32828 author: Child, Josiah, Sir, 1630-1699. title: A discourse of the nature, use and advantages of trade Proposing some considerations for the promotion and advancement thereof, by a registry of lands. Preventing the exportation of coyn. Lowering the interest of money. Inviting foreign families into England. date: 1694 words: 6762 flesch: 44 summary: Every occasion therefore , of exporting it in Specie , without bringing in as profitable a Return of money in a circulation of Trade , tends to the impoverishment of the Nation , and brings a manifest decay on Trade ; Money being as necessary for the carrying on of Trade , as Nerves and Sinews are for the motion of the Natural Body . Now as the produce of Land is a principal Foundation of Trade ; And the good management of Land gives the greater Life and Vigor to Trade : So it must be consider'd , that Money is the common Standard and valuation of most Commodities in Traffick and Commerce ; And if such Money be wanting when Commodities are exposed to Sale , a great part of Trade is prevented thereby ; the Command of ready Money giving more easie and quick Dispatches and Returns in Trade , then can possibly be effected without it , wherefore it is our Publick Interest , that Coin should be continually passing from one to another ; in the disposal whereof , there is always something of Gain to both Parties , having their ends in Traffick , tho' in different Respects . keywords: commerce; england; interest; land; man; men; money; nation; publick; trade cache: A32828.xml plain text: A32828.txt item: #3 of 15 id: A32837 author: Child, Josiah, Sir, 1630-1699. title: A short addition to the observations concerning trade and interest of money by the same hand. date: 1668 words: 4016 flesch: 63 summary: New England incomparably is the worst Land of the three , and yet the richest People of them all , and increasing dayly to a miracle , unto those that know not that by their Laws about Interest of Money , they must necessarily suck the Blood of the other two places , with whom they have a constant intercourse in Trade ; which in effect is the same as if they lent them money . Whereas when Money is here at four per cent , the Usurer that hath his Money out at present upon Mortgages , will find his Security he already hath bettered , and therefore it will be his wisdom to continue it , that Land being then worth 2600 l. which is now worth but 2000 l. and the Merchant or Tradesmen tha● he knew six per cent . would ruine , may subsist under four per cent . and consequently the Usurer will not be so jealous of his standing , as it appears they are not in Holland , because that at a low rate they may live comfortably , that must break at a high . keywords: cent; hath; interest; money; tcp; trade cache: A32837.xml plain text: A32837.txt item: #4 of 15 id: A33998 author: Collins, John, 1625-1683. title: The doctrine decimal arithmetick, simple interest, &c. as also of compound interest and annuities generally performed for any time of payment or rate of interest by help of a particular table of forbearance of 1l principal, with enlarged rules, formerly abridged for portability in a letter case / by John Collins ; and since his death, both made publick by J.D. date: 1685 words: 11745 flesch: 69 summary: In this and the two former propositions by ,06 is understood the Compound Interest of 1 l. for a year , and when the payment is by quarters or half years , instead thereof must be put in the Interest of a quarter or half a year . This is the hardest of Annuity Problems , and not to be resolved with Logarithms without Position or Trials ; the use is to find the value of any other Number of Years therein : To facilitate which , observe , That by Prop. 8. for 21 years at 6 per Cent. keywords: annuity; compound interest; interest; prop; rate; time; worth; years cache: A33998.xml plain text: A33998.txt item: #5 of 15 id: A35404 author: Culpeper, Thomas, Sir, 1626-1697. title: The advantages which will manifestly accrue to this kingdom by abatement of interest from six to four per. cent date: 1668 words: 1198 flesch: 67 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). keywords: eebo; english; tcp; text cache: A35404.xml plain text: A35404.txt item: #6 of 15 id: A35408 author: Culpeper, Thomas, Sir, 1626-1697. title: The necessity of abating usury re-asserted in a reply to the discourse of Mr. Thomas Manly entituled, Usury at six per cent. examined, &c. Together with a familiar and inoffensive way propounded for the future discovery of summes at interest, that so they may be charged with their equal share of publick taxes and burthens, the long defect whereof hath exceedingly fomented usury, embased land, and much decay'd the better half of the kingdom. By Sr. Thomas Culpeper, Jun. Knight. date: 1670 words: 25015 flesch: 46 summary: T. M. IS not the hiring of mony , ( seeing it cannot be borrowed for Gods sake , ) as necessary for the well-being of mankind , as hiring of Land or houses ? TO clear my Antithesis of Land and Usury , I shall distinguish the time into three Stages or Periods , 1. keywords: borrowers; burthens; cent; country; good; half; hath; hope; interest; land; man; men; mony; page; present; purchase; rate; reason; rents; self; sir; t. c.; t. m.; taxes; time; trade; usurer; usury; way; years cache: A35408.xml plain text: A35408.txt item: #7 of 15 id: A35409 author: Culpeper, Thomas, Sir, 1626-1697. title: Plain English in a familiar conference betwixt three friends, Rusticus, Civis, and Veridicus, concerning the deadness of our markets : offer'd as an expedient to serious consideration, and for the general good of gentry and commons. date: 1673 words: 8724 flesch: 69 summary: V. 'T is in the very nature of Wages , which are so variable , that perhaps the same Rate , being but half Pay in Countreys near London , proves double Hire in the remoter Parts of England . V. The corrupting of the People is a certain and genuine Effect of embasing the Land ; for 't is one and the same Mischief which oppresses Masters , and debauches Servants , viz Cheapness without Plenty . keywords: english; half; interest; land; markets; money; nay; rate; tcp; trade cache: A35409.xml plain text: A35409.txt item: #8 of 15 id: A35410 author: Brown, Ignatius, 1630-1679. title: Several objections against the reducement of interest propounded in a letter with the Answer thereunto. date: 1671 words: 4020 flesch: 43 summary: So were the gain of lending now reduced to a nearer correspondence with that of other dealings , by the same good omen , it might soon appear , that among our Legions of Creditours , there would be enough greatly to raise the value of our Lands ●y purchasing ; Enough , vastly to agument the bulk of our commerce by Trading , and ●et enough , if not too many to Lend at Interest : However our comfort is , they would ●en , Live , and let Live , this being the principal end herein aimed at , and indeed most ●●portant to the Commonwealth , that such as will not use their own stock , may , ( if not ●or private conscience , yet for publick good , ) afford a Pennyworth to those that manage for them , of whom it is certain , that now ( in husbandry at least , ) not one of twenty ●oth , or can , with his best condu●● , thrive , But in truth this objection of prejudicing ●ebtours , by the sudden and general calling in of sums for better employment , answers it ●elf by granting all that is required : For who sees not , that such a summons necessarily im●orts great store of Purchasing whereby the Market of our Lands would be exceeding ●ickned , all that have Estates to more in value then their debts , abundantly gratified for ●eir trouble , if any they should receive , and enabled to relieve themselves by ●onvenient sale ; And the Gentry being this in good measure disenthralled ; Bor●●wing would soon become more easie and tolerable to Tradesmen , who now ●●stly complain , that Credit is almost engrossed by Land : Certainly the Notion of rui●●ng Borrowers by abatement of Interest , ( if the parties concerned would vouchsafe to ●●nsider it , ) is not much unlike that of undoing Tenants by letting them good penny●orths , and punishing Landlords with ease of their Taxes . It will be almost impossible at four , because men will rather keep their monies in their Ch●sts , then run so great a hazard , ( as Lenders they say now do , ) for so small a profit , By others , it is offered by way of grave and friendly advice to Borrowers , that they take heed what they do , keywords: borrowers; credit; good; interest; land; security; tcp; text cache: A35410.xml plain text: A35410.txt item: #9 of 15 id: A35411 author: Culpeper, Thomas, Sir, 1626-1697. title: A short appendix to a late treatise concerning abatement of usury by the same author. date: 1668 words: 1869 flesch: 64 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 51082) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1001:18) keywords: eebo; english; tcp; text; usury cache: A35411.xml plain text: A35411.txt item: #10 of 15 id: A47873 author: L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704. title: Interest mistaken, or, the Holy cheat proving from the undeniable practises and positions of the Presbyterians, that the design of that party is to enslave both king and people under the masque of religion : by way of observation upon a treatise, intitutled, The interest of England in the matter of religion, &c. / by Roger L'Estrange. date: 1661 words: 43723 flesch: 68 summary: Upon which Hinge moves the whole frame of his Design ; and in two Pages , he gives the Presbyter possession of his Claim , Deciding with exceeding ease , the Case of King and Kingdom . Thus. Let every soul in England be subject to King and Parliament , for they are the higher Powers ordained unto you of God ; whosoever therefore resisteth King and Parliament , resisteth the Ordinance of God ; and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation . keywords: authority; bishops; cause; ceremonies; church; conscience; discipline; england; english; faction; god; good; government; hath; houses; interest; justice; king; law; let; liberty; majesty; man; matter; nation; observation; page; parliament; party; people; point; power; presbyterian; prince; question; reason; religion; right; rule; self; state; subject; thing; way cache: A47873.xml plain text: A47873.txt item: #11 of 15 id: A48895 author: Locke, John, 1632-1704. title: Some considerations of the consequences of the lowering of interest, and raising the value of money in a letter to a member of Parliament. date: 1692 words: 45711 flesch: 59 summary: So that whatever this Author , or any one else may say , Money is brought into England by nothing but spending here less of Foreign Commodities , than what we carry to Market can pay for ; Nor can Debts we owe to Foreigners be paid by Bills of Exchange , till our Commodities Exported , and Sold beyond Sea , have produced Money or Debts due there , to some of our Merchants ; for nothing will pay Debts but Money or Moneys worth , which three or four Lines writ in Paper cannot be ; for if they have an intrinsick value , and can serve instead of Money , why do we not send them to Market instead of our Cloth , Lead and Tin ? and at an easier rate purchase the Commodities we want . Si●v●r th●t is worth but 5 s. 2 d. per Ounce at the 〈◊〉 is w●●th 5 s. 4 d. elsewhere . keywords: cent; coin; commodities; commodity; country; england; exchange; interest; land; law; men; money; ounce; pay; price; proportion; quantity; rate; rent; silver; things; time; trade; use; value; worth; ● ● cache: A48895.xml plain text: A48895.txt item: #12 of 15 id: A50423 author: Mayne, John, fl. 1673-1675. title: Arithmetick vulgar, decimal, & algebraical. In a most plain and facile method for common capacities. Together with a treatise of simple and compound interest and rebate; with two tables for the calculation of the value of leases and annuities, payable quarterly; the one for simple, the other for compound interest, at 6. per cent. per annum; with rules for making the like for any other rate. To which is added a new, and most practical way of gauging of tunns. As also the art of cask-gauging, for the use of His Majesties Officers of the Excise. date: 1675 words: 23349 flesch: 74 summary: Thus may we range the world , and quickly find , We all to th' number of our Fingers bind . By Lines and Numbers , we our Buildings bring In due proportion , framing every thing . keywords: annum; answer; decimal; divisor; example; inches; interest; number; place; question; rule; square; sum; table; times cache: A50423.xml plain text: A50423.txt item: #13 of 15 id: A50425 author: Mayne, John, fl. 1673-1675. title: Socius mercatoris: or The merchant's companion: in three parts. The first, being a plain and easie introduction to arithmetick, vulgur and decimal, the extraction of the square and cube roots, with a table of 200 square roots, and their use in the resolution of square equations. The second, a treatise of simple and compound interest and rebate, with two tables for the calculation of the value of leases or annuities, payable quarterly, the one for simple, the other compound interest, at 6 per cent. per annum, with rules for making the like for any other rate. The third, a new and exact way of measuring solids in the form of a prismoid and cylindroid, with the frustums of pyramids and of a cone: whereunto is added, some practical rules and examples for cask-gauging. By John Mayne, philo-accomptant. date: 1674 words: 26293 flesch: 76 summary: The Proof is easie : First , if a be = 4 , 2 aa is = + 32 , and 6 a is = +24 , to which +8 being added , the Sum is +32 which was to be proved . Again , a = − 1 , then 1 aa is = − 2 , whereto +8 being added , the Sum is = +6 , which also was to be done . keywords: annum; answer; decimal; divisor; example; inches; interest; number; place; question; rate; rule; square; sum; table; times cache: A50425.xml plain text: A50425.txt item: #14 of 15 id: A51383 author: Morland, Samuel, Sir, 1625-1695. title: The doctrine of interest, both simple & compound explained in a more exact and satisfactory method then [sic] has hitherto been published : discovering the errors of the ordinary tables of rebate for annuities at simple interest, and containing tables for the interest and rebate of money for days, months, and years, both at simple and compound interest, also tables for the forbearance, discomps, and purchase of annulites : as likewise, equation of payments made practicable and useful for all merchants and others : together with divers other useful reflections / ... Sir S. Morland. date: 1679 words: 24062 flesch: 82 summary: The Golden Table of Trigonal Progression , of admirable Vse in all Calculations of the Amount or Present Worth of Annuities , &c. 9 The Number of Days from the beginning of any Month to the end of any other , throughout the Year , 13 The Amount of One Pound forborn any Number of Years under 32 , at 6 per Cent. Simple Interest , 31 The Reduction of Pence and Farthings into Decimal Fractions , to the Hundredth part of a Farthing , 41 The Use of the foregoing Tables , 46 A Comparison between these and Mr. Clavel's Tables , wherein it is proved , that the former are less troublesome , and more exact than the latter , 52 Of Annuities , 59 The Multiplication of any Rates of Interest whatsoever belonging to each Year , for a forborn Annuity , to 100 Years , 60 To find the Amount of any Annuity for any given time , at any Rate of Simple Interest , Page 64 This kind of Interest for Annuities useless and ridiculous , 65 The Errors of the ordinary Rules and Tables for Rebate relating to Annuities , ibid. keywords: 100; annuity; cent; compound interest; interest; number; present; simple; table; worth; years; years end cache: A51383.xml plain text: A51383.txt item: #15 of 15 id: A52120 author: Collins, John, 1625-1683. title: The country-survey-book: or Land-meters vade-mecum Wherein the principles and practical rules for surveying of land, are so plainly (though briefly) delivered, that any one of ordinary parts (understanding how to add, substract, multiply and divide,) may by the help of this small treatise alone and a few cheap instruments easy to be procured, measure a parcel of land, and with judgment and expedition plot it, and give up the content thereof. With an appendix, containing twelve problems touching compound interest and annuities; and a method to contract the work of fellowship and alligation alternate, very considerably in many cases. Illustrated with copper plates. By Adam Martindale, a friend to mathematical learning. date: 1692 words: 39600 flesch: 67 summary: ●●th a Note concerning Hypothenusual or sloping ●●undaries , common to this and the fifteenth Chapter . Concerning taking the plot of a piece of ground 〈◊〉 the Degrees upon the Frame of the Plain-Table se●●●al ways , and protracting the same . keywords: angle; chains; compasses; content; fig; figure; instrument; length; line; links; measure; parts; plain; point; right; scale; set; square; table; triangle; work; ● ● cache: A52120.xml plain text: A52120.txt