Infallible Utterance

     In 1390 the city authorities of London enacted that, 'if any person shall lend or put into the hands of any person gold or silver to receive gain thereby, such person shall have the punishment for usurers.  And in the same year the Commons prayed the king that the laws of London against usury might have the force of statutes throughout the realm...In the fifteenth century the Council of the Church at Salzburg excluded from communion and burial any who took interest for money.