Thursday, April 28, 2016

Sir Thomas Gresham - Not A Nice Man.

Sir Thomas Gresham (he of Gresham's Law - 'bad money drives out good') was probably the cleverest financier of the sixteenth century but was also a total blue meanie.

He ousted his peasant workforce to debt and starvation and likely death in order to make a slight upturn on the arable land profits on his Durham estate by switching it mostly to grazing land. 
Born again Christians are incapable of such deeds. 'By their fruits ye shall know them.'

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