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By the Lord Deputie and Councell [[electronic resource] ] : Oliver Saint Iohn. : Although this realme of Ireland hath now for the space of fifteen yeares and vpwards, enioyed a continuall and vniuersall peace vnder His Maiesties happy gouernment, whereby the commodities of the land haue been much improued, arts and handicrafts encreased, trade, trafique and commerce which were much interrupted by the troubles of former times, haue beene more freely vsed, then euer heretofore, among all His Maiesties subiects of this realme: : by meanes whereof, the estate of euery particular man hath in some measure beene bettered and augmented: : yet hath there beene withall one mischiefe suffered to continue in this realme, which hath greatly hindered the publicke-weale thereof, namely, the fretting lanker of excessiue usury, . |
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