Mortgaging appears in the court roll record in virtually all decades except for some in the early sixteenth century.#!
Whatever their motivation for mortgaging, a majority of mortgagors were able to retrieve the situation and satisfy their mortgagee.
This may explain why sale did not inevitably follow mortgaging.
There is some compelling evidence which may suggest that mortgaging could indicate distress.
These figures identify three decades in which tenants, holding tenements larger than those usually mortgaged, were forced into mortgaging.
Governments literally took to mortgaging their future.
Had such a law been passed, the land would have been worth less to the landlord for the purposes of sale and, in particular, for mortgaging.
It has meant the mortgaging of the young generation to the yoke of indebtedness and vast borrowings.
