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Usury legislation, cash, and credit: the development of the female investor in the late Tudor and Stuart periods1

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This article uses testamentary evidence from Lincoln diocesan court between the 1570s and the 1690s to examine links between inheritance, a rise in money‐lending amongst single women, and an increase in the proportion of women that never married. Two trends emerge: first, more fathers after the 1570s chose to bequeath cash to their daughters; second, they were more likely to restrict access to this portion by age rather than marriage. Assisted by a softening of attitudes towards interest‐bearing lending, these changes offered some single women a measure of financial independence that may have impacted on their marriage decisions.

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  • Judith Spicksley, 2008. "Usury legislation, cash, and credit: the development of the female investor in the late Tudor and Stuart periods1," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 61(2), pages 277-301, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ehsrev:v:61:y:2008:i:2:p:277-301
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2007.00402.x
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    1. Wrightson, Keith & Levine, David, 1995. "Poverty and Piety in an English Village: Terling, 1525-1700," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780198203216.
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    1. Helen Paul, 2015. "Editorial: Women in economic and social history: twenty-fifth anniversary of the Women's Committee of the Economic History Society," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 68(2), pages 1-17, May.

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