This could be an account of today's circumstances
Many times reprinted.
Highly recommended.
One additional point: Henry VIII's Legalisation of Usury ('In Restraint of Usury' 1545, see Sir Harry Page's book of that title) made legal the lending of money in England *for the first time*.
My speculation is that this led to a speculative-perhaps, driven market in land: something that would have increased the amount of economic- and, thus, social- and religious-distress in the subsequent Century.
I wonder, therefore, if that was a factor, even a key, central factor, in the precipitation of the First English Revolution of which Lawrence Stone writes.
Many times reprinted.
Highly recommended.
One additional point: Henry VIII's Legalisation of Usury ('In Restraint of Usury' 1545, see Sir Harry Page's book of that title) made legal the lending of money in England *for the first time*.
My speculation is that this led to a speculative-perhaps, driven market in land: something that would have increased the amount of economic- and, thus, social- and religious-distress in the subsequent Century.
I wonder, therefore, if that was a factor, even a key, central factor, in the precipitation of the First English Revolution of which Lawrence Stone writes.
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