Paper, 'A short discourse of ye motif and manner of erecting in the low countries A Monti di Pieta' by Van Helmont [written in the hand of Henry Oldenburgh, Secretary of the Royal Society] A description of the 'Monte di Pieta', an institutional pawnbroker run as a charity, 'whose point it was to receive ye goods of poor people, to value you aright and to lend you thereupon at least 3/4 of ye whole value.' Description of these in the low countries [Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg]. Subject: Anthropology 17th century