Culpeper

Culpeper, SIR THOMAS, was born of good Kentish family in 1578. He studied at Hart Hall, Oxford, and at one of the Inns of Court, next bought Leeds Castle in Kent, where, or at Greenway Court, near Hollingbourn, he mostly lived till his death, which took place in 1662. He was knighted by James I. in 1619. His Tract against the high rate of Usurie, published in 1621, contended for the reduction of interest to six per cent.—His third son, SIR THOMAS CULPEPER, born in 1626, made his studies at University College, Oxford, and after making the grand tour, and being knighted soon after the Restoration, retired to his estate of Greenway Court, where he died in 1697. Besides editing and prefacing his father's treatise on exorbitant usury in 1668, he himself published many pamphlets on the same subject, repeating his father's arguments. He wrote also Essays or Moral Discourses on several Subjects (1655 and 1671).