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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46145	Whereas His Majesty by letters patents under his great seal of Ireland, bearing date the eighteenth day of May in the two and thirtieth year of his reign, hath been graciously pleased to grant unto Sir Thomas Armestrong, Knight, and Colonel George Legg, their executors, administrators and assigns, full, free and absolute licence, power and authority, that they by themselves ... should ... make in some convenient place or places ... such quantity of halfpence of copper as might by them be issued amongst His Majesties subjects ... by the Lord Lieutenant and Council, Ormonde.	Ireland. Lord Lieutenant (1677-1685 : Ormonde); Ormonde, James Butler, Duke of, 1610-1688.	1680 (1680)	Wing I807; ESTC R36890	3,413	3

BY THE Lord Lieutenant AND COUNCIL ORMONDE WHEREAS His Majesty by Letters Patents under His Great Seal of Ireland bearing Date the Eighteenth day of May in the Two and thirtieth year of His Reign hath been graciously pleased to grant unto Sir Thomas Armestrong Knight and Colonel George Legg their Executors Administrators and Assigns full free and absolute Licence power and authority That they by themselves or by their sufficient Deputy or Deputies Workmen and Servants should during the term of One and twenty years to commence from the Date of the said Letters Patents make in some convenient place or places at his and their and every of their pleasures and appointment such quantity of Halfpence of Copper as might by them be issued amongst His Majesties Subjects in this His Majesties Realm of Ireland during the time aforesaid and them to utter issue disperse and dispose of within and throughout this Kingdom And to the intent the said Copper Halfpence might be distinguished from any other which have been made or might happen to be made in any other place or places whatsoever hath declared his Royal will and pleasure and commanded that the said Halfpence should be made of Copper having on the one side the Figure or Effigies of His Majesties Head stampt in Copper and on the other side the stamp or impress of an Harp Crowned with this Inscription round before and on the Reverse side Carolus Secundus Dei gratia Magnae Britanniae Franciae Hiberniae Rex And whereas His Majesty in and by His said Letters Patents hath willed and ordained that the said Copper Halfpence so made should weigh each Halfpeny One hundred and ten grains Troy weight and that the same should be generally used by all His Subjects and others in this His Kingdom of Ireland as Tokens of the value of Halfpence within this Kingdom and to the intent that the said Sir Thomas Armestrong and George Legg their Executors Administrators and Assigns respectively might have and enjoy the full advantage benefit and profit intended them by His Majesties said Grant His Majesty hath been graciously pleased in and by His said Letters Patents straightly to forbid and prohibit all and every person and persons whatsoever other than the said Sir Thomas Armestrong and the said George Legg their Executors Administrators and Assigns their Deputies Agents and Servants to make or counterfeit any such Copper Halfpence or to make or use any Engines Stamps or Instruments whereby they may be made or to make or use any other Tokens Engines Stamps or Instruments in resemblance of them or any other Tokens whatsoever or to use or utter any other Halfpenny-tokens Pence or Farthing-tokens or Copper-pieces or Brass-pieces or pieces of any other Metal which have been or shall be made for Tokens for the use of any part of His Majesties Dominions or any the parts beyond the Seas or which have been made either before or shall be made after the Date of His Majesties said Letters Patents within this His Majesties said Kingdom of Ireland or in any other parts or to import or bring into this His Majesties Realm of Ireland any Halfpence Pence or Farthing-tokens or Copper or Brass-pieces or pieces of any other Metal which have been or shall be made in any parts beyond the Seas to be used as Tokens upon pain of Forfeiture of all such Halfpenny-tokens Farthing-tokens or other Tokens or pieces of Copper or Brass or other Metal which hath been or shall be made and used as Tokens and of all such Engines Stamps and Instruments as should be so made used or found contrary to His Majesties said Letters Patents and upon such further pains penalties and imprisonments as by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm and His Majesties Prerogative Royal may be inflicted upon such persons for their contempt and breach of His Majesties Royal Commands in this behalf the one moyety of all such Forfeitures to be to His Majestie his Heirs and Successors and the other moyety to the said Sir Thomas Armestrong and George Legg their Executors Administrators and Assigns respectively And whereas His Majesty in and by His said Letters Patents hath further granted unto the said Sir Thomas Armestrong and George Legg their Executors Administrators and Assigns respectively that they by themselves their Deputies Servants and Agents or any of them may from time to time and at all times during the said term of Twenty one years calling a Constable or other Officer with him or them enter into any Ship Bottom Vessel or Boat or into any House Shop Cellar Warehouse or any other place whatsoever within this Kingdom where they or any of them shall have cause to make search by water or land as well within Liberties as without and there to try and search by all ways and means for all Counterfeit Halfpence Farthing-tokens and Pence and other Tokens of Brass or Copper or other Metal whatsoever which have been made or shall be used as Tokens or any Engines Stamps or Instruments that are already made or shall at any time after the date of His Majesties said Letters Patents be made for the making coyning stamping or casting of any Farthing-tokens Halfpence or Pence whatsoever or as shall be brought from other parts of His Majesties Dominions or the parts beyond the Seas or found to be made within His Majesties said Realm of Ireland contrary to the meaning of His Majesties said Letters Patents and that finding any such Tokens Copper and Brass pieces Instruments Stamps or Engines to arrest seise carry away and detain the same to the uses in His Majesties Letters Patents before mentioned These are therefore in His Majesties Name straightly to command and forbid all manner of persons whatsoever that they and every of them do forbear to import make stamp cast coyn utter or receive any Copper-halfpence or Copper-pence or Farthing-tokens or any other Tokens whatsoever of any sort of metal or pieces of Copper or Brass by way of Change or otherwise or to have or use any Engines Stamps or Instruments whereby such Copper-halfpence or Pence or Farthing-tokens or other pieces of Copper or Brass may be stamped coined made or uttered or used amongst His Majesties Subjects in this Kingdom contrary to his Majesties will and pleasure declared in and by his Majesties said Letters Patents as they will answer the contrary at their utmost perils save only the said Sir Thomas Armestrong and the said Colonel George Legg their Deputies Agents and Servants who are hereby required to make such a convenient quantity of the said Copper-halfpence for the use of his Majesties Subjects and to take care that each of them do weigh One hundred and ten grains Troy weight as in his Majesties said Letters Patents are directed and to send such proportions of them into as many Cities Burroughs Corporate and Market towns of this Kingdom as they shall think convenient for the use of his Majesties Subjects in this Kingdom the same to be left in the hands of some discreet person or persons whom they shall appoint to be vended and uttered amongst the Inhabitants of the respective Cities Burroughs Counties and places of this Realm and in case any of his Majesties Subjects shall happen to be surcharged in the course of their Trades with more of the said Copper-halfpence then they can utter then the said Sir Thomas Armestrong and the said Colonel George Legg their Deputies Agents Servants are in pursuance of his Majesties said Letters Patents hereby required to deliver at any time during the term aforesaid the summe of Twenty shillings currant monies for every summe of Twenty one shillings returned in the same Copper halfpence unto such person and persons who shall so happen to be surcharged and so after that rate for all greater summes And we do further in his Majesties Name straightly command and require That the aforesaid Copper-halfpence which have been and shall be made by his Majesties Royal Authority according to his Majesties said Grant and no other Token whatsoever be uttered used received accepted and taken in all Dealings whereby Exchange of small Money is necessary between man and man as currant Monies according to the value of Halfpence within this Kingdom yet so as none of his Majesties Subjects are hereby compelled to receive of the said Copper-halfpence in any payment of Money above Five shillings in One hundred pounds and so proportionably in all greater or lesser summes and the chief Officers and Governours with the Ministers and Constables of all places within this Realm respectively and also the Farmers Collectors and Receivers of his Majesties Revenue of this Kingdom for the time being are hereby required to endeavour that the said Copper-halfpence may be uttered and dispersed throughout the Kingdom and that they be freely received and pass in use betwixt man and man for the value of Halfpence in the way of Exchange as is before expressed And we do further in his Majesties Name straightly charge and command all and singular Mayors Sheriffs Iustices of the Peace Constables Headborroughs Controllers Customers and Searchers and all other his Majesties Officers and Ministers to whom it shall or may appertain to be aiding and assisting in all lawful and convenient manner unto the said Sir Thomas Armestrong and Colonel George Legg their Executors Administrators and Assigns and their and every of their Deputies Factors Agents and Servants in the due Execution of the Premisses upon pain of his Majesties high Displeasure and such punishments and Imprisonments as by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm and his Majesties Prerogative Royal can or may be inflicted upon them for their contempt in that behalf Given at the Council-chamber in Dublin the 19th day of Iuly 1680. Mich Armach C. Hen Midensis Jo Davys Arran Ca Dillon Wm Flower Blesinton John Keatinge Lanesborough He Hene God save the King DVBLIN Printed by Benjamin Tooke and John Crooke Printers to the King 's Most Excellent Majesty at His Majesties Printing-House in Skinner-row 1680.