Usury Act 1660

II. Scriveners taking above 5s. for the Loan of £ 100 for a Year, or above 12d. for making, &c. Bonds, &c.

Penalty £20 and Imprisonment.

And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid That all and every Scrivenor and Scrivenors Broker and Brokers Sollicitor and Sollicitors Driver and Drivers of Bargaines for Contracts who shall after said twenty nineth day of September take or receive directly or indirectly any Summe or Summes of Money or other reward or thing for Brokage Solliciting Driving or Procureing the Loane or forbearing of any Summe or Summes of Money over and above the Rate or Value of five shillings for the Loane, or forbearing of one hundred pounds for a yeare and soe rateably, or above twelve pence for [X1 the] making or renewing of the Bond or Bill for the Loane, or for forbearing thereof, or for any Counterbond or Bill concerning the same shall forfeite for every such Offence twenty pounds and have Imprisonment for halfe a yeare; The one moyety of all which forfeitures to be to the King our Soveraigne Lord His Heires and Successors, And the other moyety to him or them that will sue for the same in the same County where the severall Offences are committed and not elsewhere by action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information, in which noe Essoigne Wager of Law, or protection to be allowed.

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