'Extracts out of an Act of the first Parliament of King James the seventh chap. XXIV anent a free coinage'

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/3/211, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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Extracts out of an Act of the first Parliament of King Iames the seventh chap. XXIV anent a free coinage

{illeg}\|D\|uty	{illeg}p{illeg}\|im\|posed upon Spanish Rhenish & Brandy wines		14^li.	8^s.	scots p^r Tun
	French wines of all sorts		7.	4.		p^r Tun
	Paper for printing & writing		0.	12.	p^r six Reams
	Gray paper		0.	12.	p^r 12 Reams
	Dails		3.	0.	per 1000
	Single trees		{illeg}\|3\|.	0.	per 1000
	Double trees		6.	0.	per 1000
	Double {illeg}\|D\|ouble trees & other great fir timber		12.	0.	p^r 1000
	Steel		0.	12.	per C w^t
	Iron {illeg}\|&\| iron work beaten		1.	4.	per Tun
	Onions & apples		0.	12.	per 2 Barrells
	Mum-beer		2.	8.	per barrel.
	Pruns		2.	8.	per Tun
	Raisins Currans & Figgs		6.	0.	per Tun
	Iron potts of all sorts,		0.	12.	per douzon
	Soap		1.	4.	per Barrel
	Sugar candy		6.	0.	per C w^t
	K\|C\|opper Kettles, Brass Panns, & all other made work in Brass or Copper \|{yeltin} or beaten\|	}	2.	5.	per {illeg}\|C\| w^t
	Mader		{illeg}\|3\|.	{illeg}\|0\|.	per M w^t
	Hats		1.	4.	per 3 duzon
	Window glass		1\|0\|.	12.	per Chest
	Lemon & Oranges 12^s p^r		0.	12.	per thousand
	Hopps		0.	12.	per C w^t
	Spanish Leather, Marikin, Tanned leather, Wild leather {illeg}\|&\| all sorts of leather except Moscovia leather	}	0.	12.	per C w^t
	Gloves of all sort		0.	12.	per du{illeg}\|z\|en
	Whale bone or Ballan		0.	12.	per 2 C w^t

The said moneys to be delivered to y^e General or Master of the Mint at such times as his Ma^ty or his Privy Council shall think fit for payment of Salaries & defraying the charge of a free coinage, & kept in secure Chest by it self whereof y^e General or Master of y^e Mint is to have one key & the Cash keeper another. or Receivers another.

The stan{d}ard fineness of y^e Silver bullion moneys is 11^{illeg} deniers 2 grains & the Merchant to receive of the General or Master Weight for weight standard weight imported

The Officers of the Mint to import no bullion on {illeg}|p|ain of being punished for malversation.

Three Piles of weights, One kept in y^e Exchequer, one by the Dean of Gild of Edinburgh & y^e 3^d in the Mint house.

A printed Table kept in the Mint house of y^e value of Bullion or Money acc{illeg}|o|rding to the Denominations of Weights used in y^e Mint of Deniers Grains Primes & Seconds, & y^e Ordinary Denominations of Pounds Ounces Drops & Grains

No preference in point of assaying or coinage {or}|&| delivery

The Clerk or Book Keeper to keep two Registers in \fair/ books of Parchment & in one of them to set {illeg}|d|own the times of In-giving in the presence of the In-giver or Importer, w^ch book shall be open to all persons gratis under pain of deprivation. And in the other of them he is to enter Accompts subscribed & delivered to him by the Master, Warden, Counter-Warden & Assay-master of all the silver coyned in his Ma^ts Mint {illeg}|ac|cording to y^e Standard & fineness And all the Officers or their Deputes for whom they will answer are to subscribe the same <211v> quarterly.

The Master to give to the Importer a Note or Receipt {illeg}|un|der his hand a Note denoting the weight fineness & value of the Silver imported together with the day & order of its delivery into the said Mint, bearing in the body of it a Clause of Registration & deliver back the same c{illeg}|o|ined within the space of ten days if the Bullion doth {illeg}|n|ot exceed 6000 Scots; & f{illeg}|f| 15 days if it doth not exceed 12000 pounds Scots & of 20 days if y^e quantity be greater.

No seizure of Bullion imported upon any account publick or private.

The General or Master upon refusing to accept of enter & coin bulli{illeg}|o|n brought in, to be deprived, unless for want of money to coin the same. In w^ch case he is to apply to the Lords of the Cou{illeg}|n|cil for money, after the rate of 18 pounds Scots money for every stone of bullion brought in, to be repaid to y^e King the next Session of Parliam^t.

Then follows the weight & limits of sizing the {illeg}|s|everal pieces of money, & triall of the Pix before the Council twice a year.