602-3)

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/2/597-8, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Additional Information
- Notes on the Electronic Edition
  - You are currently reading the diplomatic version of this text. Diplomatic transcriptions offer a detailed representation of the document with minimal editorial intervention. All deletions and additions are rendered in the text and abbreviations have not been expanded. Switching to the normalized view of this text will hide 52 deletions, silently include 64 additions and apply 33 editorial regularizations.
- Revision History
  - 1 January 2001
    - Catalogue information compiled by Rob Iliffe, Peter Spargo & John Young
  - 29 September 2011
    - Catalogue exported to teiHeader by Michael Hawkins
  - 29 January 2017
    - Transcribed by Will Scott, with retrofitting from MINT00287
  - 10 March 2017
    - Checked by Will Scott
- Download MINT01924.xml and schema (advanced users only)
Related Texts
- This document is a version of:
  'Proposals for preserving and encreasing the Coyn of this Kingdome.' Draft of second appendix to MINT00281 (Mint 19/2/78-9) [MINT 19/2/602-3]

<597r>

Proposals for preserving & encrea{illeg}|s|ing the Coyn of this Kingdom.

All |[|gold and|]| silver designed for exportation shall be first examined & entred in the Mint. And for that end all Spanish \of silver/ Barrs and other forreign silver imported in the Ingots \|[a[|l|l| Ingots & Plate of gold \of gold or silver/ & all sand gold &|]|/ & {sic} \or in manufactured plate & designed for exportation {illeg} Plate \or in pieces of 8 or other forreign money including {illeg}|two| pound weight & designed for {a weight}// |all| American virgin \gold or/ silver \imported/ shall upon its first coming up the River to the Custome house be brought to the Mint by the Merchant Master of y^e ship & other wtinesses to be \there/ examined & entred. And the |sd| \s {sic}/ Plate \& {sic} sand Gold/ & Virgin silver & all forreign monies designed for exportation shall be there melted into Ingots. And these Ingots & all other Ingots of Silver above mention{s}|e|d shall at the choise of the Merchant be either coyned into monies or marked with a stamp provided in the Mint for that purpose. And at the request of the Merchant the Master of the Mint shall give him a Ticket certifying the weight of the monies coyned out of the said forreign silver & the time of |y^e| coynage thereof w^ch Ticket shall be indented & cut out of a book in w^ch the same |shis|a|ll be| entred.

Ingots not markt may not be exported w^th y^e Mint stamp may not be exported nor bought or sold but may be brought to the Mint for encreasing the co{illeg}|y|n of this kingdome. This law now obteins in {illeg}|F|rance by an Edict of last March for preventing the melting down of the monies.

The Merchant upon delivering the Mint Tickets at the Custome house may w^thin a year after the coynage of the monies mentioned therein, by Warrant of the Comm^rs of the Customes upon a day appointed therein \in the Warrant/ ship for exportation the said monies or the same quantity of of {sic} \like/ monies by weight & also any Ingots w^ch have the Mint stamp upon them, & the Customers shall enter the same & file the Tickets And upon the same day the \Master or/ Purser of the ship may carry on board so much money as shall be allowed the {illeg}|s|eamen & Passenger for their pockets. No other monies to be brought on board by any person whatsoever, except

In Plate Vessel or Instrument \or Vtensil/ of \Gold or/ silver \weighing above ounces Troy/ shall be exported except instruments for Chirurgery &\except/ Plate in an Embassadors Cabin \or Vessel/ for y^e Embassadors use, or\for the use of any Passenger of Q{illeg}|ua|lity/ by License of the L^d High Treasurer or Comm^rs of the Treasury for the time being \& except Instruments for Chirurgery\& {in} {illeg} & |[|other {illeg} & or aparrel parts of apparrel {&}//. For Plate at p^rsent is freely exported & for that end \very/ great /quantities of Plate have been made the two last years out of y^e hammered money.\

All silver monies before shipping for exportation shall pay 1 $\frac{1}{2}$ ^d p^r ounce Troy at the Custome house for the charge of assaying \standarding/ melting \refining/ & coyning the same. Which Duty shall be kept apart w^th the Duty already granted for encouragement of coynage & therewith paid into the Excheq^r & thence imprest to the Master of the Mint for the same uses. And <597v> all Ingots stampt shall pay before stamping to the Master of the Mint before stamp{illeg}|in||g| \1^s per Ingot for all Ingots of less then four pound weight Troy {or}/ a farthing per ounce for \all all Ingots of 4^lwt or above, < insertion from f 598r > w^ch duty shall be for < text from f 597v resumes > / {illeg}|de|fraying the charges of melting & assaying the same\examining & reducing forreign silver into Ingots/ & towards y^e charges of assaying melting & coyning the monies & of \providing & repairing/ things e|n|ecessary for y^e same. For w^ch Duty the Master of the Mint shall be accountable to the King |And for every| /melting of less then 4^lwt of \forreign/ silver the Merchant shall pay 1^s \to y^e M^r for the same uses/ & have the Ingot stampt gratis.\

No |[|gold or|]| silver (other then pocket money al{illeg}|r|eady allowed) shall be exported out of any other Port {i}|o|f England than that of London nor out of Ireland except into England.

Felony \without benefit of Clergy/ to counterfeit the Mint stamp or the Mints Tickets. And other penalties upon \them/ that ship silver not licensed or without paying the Duty or upon any other day than that appointed in the Custome house warrant or buy or sell unmarkt Ingots or counterfeit American Virgin silver or {illeg} other forreign silver or {B}|b|ring Barrs of silver to the Mint to be markt or coyned as forreign w^ch are not forreign.

The like laws may be made for gold, the Merchant paying 6 $\frac{1}{2}$ ^d p^r lw^t ounce for coyning & 1^d p^r oz for marking what he exports. & 1^s {6^d} per melting for every melting \every parcel/ of less then 1^lwt Troy of forreign gold.