Long Series of Enactments

     In England "there had been a long series of enactments - the statutes of Alfred, of William the Conqueror, of Henry II, of Henry III, of Edward I, of Edward III, and of Henry VII - which were ...penal enactments prohibiting the lending of money upon any interest whatever, under punishment more or less severe ranging from forfeiture of chattels, lands and Christian burial under Alfred, to a loss of al substance, whipping, exposure in the pillory, and perpetual banishment under William the Conqueror..."  Franklin W. Ryan