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<Q LANG="frm">HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
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<HEAD>&leaf; By the King.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">A Proclamation for &s;uppre&s;sing of light Golde.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_WHereas by Our Proclamation dated the one and thirtieth day</HI> of Iuly la&s;t, Wee did expre&s;&s;e Our princely care and earne&s;t de&s;ire to reduce Our Golde Coine to one equall price and value, and to forbeare the &s;tamping of any more of tho&s;e vnequall Coynes, which were found not to be &s;o v&s;efull for Our Subiects; with this proui&s;ion ne|uerthele&s;&s;e, That &s;uch as then were already coyned &s;hould continue of the &s;ame value they then were, allowing certaine remedies and a|batements vpon euery piece greater or le&s;&s;er re&s;pectiuely, which Re|medies, if any piece of the &s;aid Golde Coynes then already coyned, &s;hould be found to exceed, Wee gaue free libertie to all and euery Our louing Subiects, to refu&s;e the &s;ame in paiment at their will and plea&s;ure, thereby to take away (as much as po&s;&s;ible might be) all opportunitie and en|couragement from offenders, to Clip, Wa&s;h, and dimini&s;h the &s;aid Coynes, which then were, and now are generally much fallen by &s;uch vnlawfull and wicked practi&s;es from their fir&s;t true value and goodne&s;&s;e: All which Our Royall care and proui&s;ion notwith&s;tanding, tending &s;o much to the weale of Our people, We finde the &s;ame to be &s;o greatly neglected, as in &s;tead of making v&s;e of that liberty, which was then giuen them of refu&s;ing &s;uch light Golde moneys aforementioned, as were without the Remedies allowed by Our &s;aid Proclamation, they doe now for the mo&s;t part accept in payments indifferently and promi&s;cuou&s;ly all &s;uch Coynes what&s;oeuer, tendred vnto them, without weighing or examining the true value and goodne&s;&s;e thereof, as were fit, and as they ought to doe: Which &s;trange negligence wee in Our princely wi&s;edome and prouidence con|&s;idering, and ob&s;eruing that neither the regard of their owne manife&s;t lo&s;&s;e and detriment, which they &s;u&s;taine by &s;uch impaired and dimini&s;hed Coynes, nor Our earne&s;t de&s;ire to haue them more carefull, (not ob&s;curely intimated al&s;o in Our &s;aid Proclamation) can any thing preuaile to haue &s;o foule an abu&s;e redre&s;&s;ed, as with care and diligence it might ea&s;ily be. We therfore not yet giuing ouer the care and welfare of Our louing Subiects, euen in their particular intere&s;ts, but withall, entring into a more &s;erious con&s;ideration how far this great abu&s;e may concerne the &s;tate of Our Realme in generall, by the continuall wa&s;te and con&s;umption of all the Currant Money within our Realme, if &s;ome &s;tricter cour&s;e be not taken to preuent the mi&s;chiefe, are now con&s;trained in regard of Our Subiects long negligence of their owne commoditie, in lieu of that which Our for|mer Proclamation left in a maner to liberty and choice, to lay vpon Our Subiects a Charge and Commandement, to accept and refu&s;e payment of the &s;aid light Coynes in certeine ca&s;es, and vp|on certeine conditions, but with that moderation &amp; re&s;pect, as &s;hall by a very &s;mall pre&s;ent dam|mage preuent all mi&s;chiefes that can hereafter fall vpon them in this ca&s;e: And therfore doe here|by
<PB REF="2">&s;traitly charge and forbid vpon paine of contempt and incurring of Our high di&s;plea&s;ure, That no manner of per&s;on or per&s;ons within this Our Realme of England, from and after Mid&s;omer next comming in any County of Our Realme doe pre&s;ume to take or receiue, or de|liuer in payment any piece of Our gold Coyne currant within this Realme, and formerly by Vs aduanced at the rates afore&s;ayd, being clipped, wa&s;hed or by any other means vnlawfully dimini|&s;hed, or lacking of the iu&s;t weight thereof, otherwi&s;e then according to the Rates hereafter &s;eue|rally expre&s;&s;ed, and with the allowance of the remedies &s;et downe in Our former Proclamation, That is to &s;ay,</P>
<P>In euery piece of golde currant for
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<ITEM>33. &s;hillings,</ITEM>
<ITEM>22. &s;hillings,</ITEM>
<ITEM>16. &s;hillings 6 pence,</ITEM>
<ITEM>11. &s;hillings,</ITEM>
<ITEM>5. &s;hillings 6 pence,</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. &s;hillings 9 pence,</ITEM>
</LIST> The remedie &s;hall not exceede
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<ITEM>4. graines and a halfe.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. graines.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. graines and a halfe.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. graines.</ITEM>
<ITEM>1. graine.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Halfe a graine.</ITEM>
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<P>All which remedies &s;hall be allowed in euery piece accordingly, and no deduction or abate|ment to bee made for the &s;ame, but to pa&s;&s;e as if it were of full weight and iu&s;t valew. But if any &s;uch piece of Coyue, lacking of his true weight aboue the &s;ayd remedies before expre&s;&s;ed, &s;hall from &amp; after Mid&s;omer next comming be offered in payment by any per&s;on or per&s;ons with|in this Our Realme, Our Will and plea&s;ure then is, that for &s;o many graynes more or le&s;&s;e, as the piece &s;hall be lighter then the remedie, &s;o as afore&s;ayd allowed, euerie per&s;on or per&s;ons, that &s;o offereth the &s;ame in payment, &s;hall al&s;o at the &s;ame time pay and allow, after the rate of two pence the graine to him that receiueth it, for euery graine wanting aboue the remedies re&s;pectiue|ly; And euerie per&s;on or per&s;ons, to whom the &s;ame is offered to bee payd with tho&s;e allowan|ces, &s;hall accept the &s;ame in payment as if the &s;ame were full and iu&s;t weight, any thing conteined in Our former Proclamation to the contrary notwith&s;tanding. Prouided alwayes, that if any &s;uch piece of Gold, &s;o offered in payment after the time afore&s;ayd, &s;hall want aboue the number of &s;o many more graines then are allowed for the remedies re&s;pectiuely, as if the piece of twenty and two &s;hillings &s;hall want more then three graines aboue the remedie allowed, or the piece of eleuen &s;hillings more then two graines aboue the remedie, &amp; &s;o of all the re&s;t re&s;pectiuely; Then Our Royall will and plea&s;ure is, that in all payments betweene partie and partie, the &s;ame &s;hall not onely be refu&s;ed without all redemption, but that euery per&s;on and per&s;ons to whom &s;uch tender of payments &s;hall be made, &s;hal brand the &s;ame, by &s;triking a hole, at his &amp; their plea&s;ure, in euerie of the &s;ayd pieces &s;o offered in payment, as likewi&s;e of any other piece that &s;hall be found &s;owdered or vnlawfully imba&s;ed: rendring tho&s;e pieces &s;o &s;tricken thorow, then pre&s;ently after|wards to the Owners therof againe according as was ordered by a Proclamation made by Our Deare Si&s;ter the late Queene <HI>Elizabeth</HI> in the nine &amp; twentieth yeere of her reigne vpon the like occa&s;ion. Prouided al&s;o and We doe hereby declare Our intention and expre&s;&s;e plea&s;ure to bee, that if any of Our louing Subiects &s;hall hereafter bring any Gold to be coyned at Our Mint, hee and they &s;hall haue a iu&s;t &amp; full returne thereof, without diminution, by waight, or by number, at the election of him, that &s;hall receiue the &s;ame according to our former Proclamation, dated the one &amp; thirtieth day of Iuly la&s;t, deducting for the Coynage; A&s;&s;uring Our Selfe, that &s;ince We haue here|by giuen &s;o large and &s;ufficient a time for Our good Subiects to di&s;abu&s;e them&s;elues by ridding their hands of tho&s;e light pieces of Gold which deceiue and endammage the whole Kingdome, they will betwixt the Date of this Proclamation and Mid&s;omer &s;o prouide, by timely &s;ending in of that Coyne into Our Mint, as may be&s;t &s;tand with their indemnitie, le&s;t that the glut of ma|king
<PB REF="3">all that light Coyne to bee Bullion after the &s;ayd time, may not onely proue hurtfull, but in a manner vnpo&s;&s;ible vnto them, &s;ince Wee are re&s;olued (for the tender care We haue of our Sub|iects good) that this Our Proclamation &s;halbe put to a reall and full execution.</P>
<P>And whereas by Our &s;aid former Proclamation, we were plea&s;ed to notifie vnto all Our lo|uing Subiects how carefull We were (after the example likewi&s;e of Our &s;aid deare Si&s;ter, the late Queene in the &s;aid nine and twentyeth yeare of her Raigne) to giue order to the Ma&s;ter of Our Mint, for preparing a &s;ufficient number of iu&s;t waights and ballances, with true and vpright graines and halfe graines, for the remedies and abatements afore&s;aid, to haue them in a readine&s;&s;e before the fir&s;t of September la&s;t pa&s;t, to be deliuered at rea&s;onable prices, to be rated by Our Commi&s;&s;ioners for Our Trea&s;ury, or Trea&s;urer of England, for the time being, to all &s;uch Our Subiects as &s;hould require the &s;ame, with expre&s;&s;e commandement, that the chiefe Officers in all Our Cities, Boroughes, and Townes Corporate of this Our Realme of England, and Principalitie of Wales, &s;hould before the la&s;t day of September la&s;t pa&s;t, prouide to haue one paire of the &s;aid Waights &s;ufficient, at the hands of the &s;aid Ma&s;ter of our Mint, within euery &s;uch City, Borough, and Towne corporate, well and &s;afely to be kept, for tryall of the waight of the &s;aide Coynes, as occa&s;ion &s;halbe: Which neuerthele&s;&s;e, We vnder&s;tand is neglected, and though the &s;aid Ma&s;ter of Our Mint, hath performed that which belonged to his dutie and office, in making pre|paration according as We inioyned him, and that the &s;aid waights and ballances are rea&s;ona|bly rated by our Commi&s;&s;ioners for the Trea&s;ury, Yet hath not any or very few, repaired vnto him for &s;uch ballances and waights; By meanes whereof, all Our endeuour and Princely care for the good and weale of our Subiects in this particular, is likely to bee fru&s;trated and of little effect. We doe therefore hereby once againe, lay our expre&s;&s;e charge and commandement vpon all the &s;aid chiefe Officers of Our Cities, Boroughes, and Townes corporate of this Our Realme of England, and Principalitie of Wales, that before the foure and twentieth day of Iune next, they doe without faile prouide them&s;elues of &s;uch waights and ballances with vp|right graines and halfe graines, which We haue cau&s;ed to bee marked and &s;tricken with an <HI>I.</HI> Crowned, at the hands of the Ma&s;ter of Our Mint, to be &s;afely kept within euery &s;uch Citie, Borough, and Towne corporate, according as in Our former Proclamation it is ordered: And We &s;traightly forbid all Our Subiects and others what&s;oeuer, to haue, or v&s;e any other waights then as afore&s;aid for the &s;aid Coynes of Gold, remedies, or abatements, or any of them, as they will an&s;were the contrary at their vttermo&s;t perill.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Giuen at Newmarket, <DATE>the &s;euenth day of February, in the &s;euenteenth yeare of Our Raigne of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland.</DATE></DATELINE><LB> <HI>God &s;aue the King.</HI></CLOSER>
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<P>&leaf; Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings mo&s;t excellent Maie&s;tie. ANNO MDC.XIX.</P>
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