A general discourse against the damnable sect of vsurers : grounded vppon the vvorde of God, and confirmed by the auctoritie of doctors both auncient, and newe; necessarie for all tymes, but most profitable for these later daies, in which, charitie being banished, couetousnes hath gotten the vpper hande. VVherunto is annexed another godlie treatise concernyng the lawfull vse of ritches. Seen and allowed accordyng to her Maiesties iniunctions.

A general discourse against the damnable sect of vsurers : grounded vppon the vvorde of God, and confirmed by the auctoritie of doctors both auncient, and newe; necessarie for all tymes, but most profitable for these later daies, in which, charitie being banished, couetousnes hath gotten the vpper hande. VVherunto is annexed another godlie treatise concernyng the lawfull vse of ritches. Seen and allowed accordyng to her Maiesties iniunctions.

Doctrina de usura. English

Imprinted at London : [by Iohn Kyngston] for Andrevv Maunsell in Paules Church-yard at the signe of the Parret, 1578.

[10], 36, 27, [1] leaves ; (4to)

Author's dedication signed: M. Philip Caesar.

A translation of "Doctrina de usura"; the name of the translator, Thomas Rogers, appears in the heading to the first dedication.

Printer's name from colophon.

"A godlie treatice concerning the lavvfull vse of ritches", an adaptation of Niels Hemmingsen's commentary on the Epistle to James in his "Commentaria in omnes epistolas Apostolorum", has separate dated title page and pagination; register is continuous.

Signatures: *-2*⁴ 3*² A-Q⁴.

Entered 28 May [1578]

Signatures from DFo.

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 4342
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S107129

Great Britain -- England -- London.

STC 4342

4/3/39. Sig.2*3 mended; some headlines shaved. Provenance: signature of Thomas Groves