One issue here is chronology. That is, just when did the bourgeois values supposedly celebrated in Heywood’s Gresham arise? on sale links of london Late in the century, Thomas Fuller described Gresham as “bred a mercer and merchant in the city of London, where God so blessed his endeavours, that he became the wealthiest citizen in England of his age” (465). Here Fuller effaces Gresham’s prominent father and Cambridge education (he was merely “bred a mercer and merchant”), Links of London Jewellery and lauds his wealth as a divine reward-ideas consistent with what Weber and Tawney and their followers and revisers said about the spirit of capitalism and its accompanying new values. Fuller, however, was writing fifty years after Heywood and a hundred after Gresham, Links of London Bracelet and charting the emergence of the views Fuller seems to express has involved considerable debate. At one extreme, writers like Alan Macfarlane deny the newness of a commercial ethos: “the majority of ordinary people in England from at least the thirteenth century were rampant individualists, highly mobile both geographically and socially, economically ‘rational/ market-oriented and acquisitive, ego-centered in kinship and social life” (163). Others, links of london Teddy Charm however, date a “spirit of capitalism” not earlier, but later: “It simply does not exist in England before 1640,” argue Charles and Katherine George, for example (172). In still other accounts, the birth of new values matters less than the survival of old ones, for the medieval roots of early modern attacks on money-making have often been noted (e.g., McLuskie and Dunsworth, 424). This variety of ways to construct an economic past reveals the problematic elements in any attempt to link changing attitudes to signs of early capitalist formation in plays like If You Know Not Me.