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A65092	Two petitions of Thomas Violet of London goldsmith, to the Kings Majestie I. Seting forth the great abuses practised by the makers of gold and silver thread, wire, lace, to the great waste of the stock and treasure of the kingdome, in culling and melting down the heavy currant silver. II. One hundred & twelve several parcels of course and adulterate silver lace, ... Mr. Alexander Jackson, who is sworne assay-maker at Goldsmiths Hall, ... III. Ten several heads or branches certified by the Committee of Trade the 17th of June 1657. seting forth the several abuses in making gold and silver lace, wire, and thread; ... IV. Thomas Violet's petition to the Right Honourable, several Lords of the Privy Council, who are appointed a committee for the removing the obstructions of the mint, ...to present to your Lordships such rules, orders, and instructions for the due vending, and uttering of the said manufactures, ... for the ends expressed.	Violet, Thomas, fl. 1634-1662.	1661 (1661)	Wing V594A; ESTC R222530	22,825	26

to 1641. and to consider of such alterations and additions for the due Regulation of this Manufacture that all abuses now practised in the Workmasters Workmen Traders and Venders of this Commodity may for the future be prevented your Majestie Nobility and Gentry duly served with good Silver Lace which maintaines by Manufacture many thousand people in the City of London All Gold and Silver Wire drawn at the Office for any of these aforesaid Manufactures of Lace Thread Embroidery to be effayed and warranted to be good Sllver by your Petitioner as he hath put in Security into the Exchecquer or to pay the damage That the Company of Goldsmiths as often as occasion shall require shall from time to time propound such Rules and Orders for the due making vending and uttering the same Manufactures as they in their experience shall finde most necessary for the ends expressed and being required by your Majestie for their daily assisting advising and counselling your Petitioner to discharge the Trust and Duty of his Place according to his Grant under the Great Seal that so all the former abuses for the future may be prevented and the credit of this manufacture restored and your Petitioner encouraged to do his duty to discover these abuses and for to incourage the Goldsmiths Company to look carefully after this businesse that after the Expiration of your Petitioners Grant by your Majesties grace and goodnesse the Powers Fees and Salaries granted to your Petitioner to enable him to do this service may for ever be fixed and annexed to the Company of Goldsmiths and their Successors they then putting in Security in fifteen hundred pounds into the Exchecquer as your Petitioner hath done already for the warranting all Gold and Silver Wire drawn as aforesaid for making any the aforesaid Manufactures to be good Silver and that the Company of Goldsmiths by your Majesties Gracious Reference be commanded to certifie your Majesties Privy Councel and your Attorney General of such wayes and Rules they shall find best to prevent these abuses your Majestie being graciously pleased to recommend the same to your Parliament to have this Regulation setled on the Goldsmiths by Parliament This will perfect the Reformation and prevent the daily abuses put on the Wearers of Gold and Silver Lace when the Company of Goldsmiths that are Artists but no Traders in this Manufacture shall be bound to warrant the same to all persons and to survey and see the Gold Wiredrawers do their duty May it please your Majesty I have spoken with he Company of Goldsmiths about a month since who have declared to me that if your Majesty or your Privy Council send them your commands to set down the waies and rules to the best of their skil for this Regulation they will withal rediness humbly do it and if these rules be approved on with such alterations as your Majesty your Privy Council shall judge fit and by your Majesty recomended to the Parliament and by them approved they tell me this is the only certain and safe way for them to act to reforme this abuse which the Goldsmiths have confessed they know is a great shame to the Kingdome that the Nobility and Gentry should be so daily deceived as they are in course slight adulterate silver lace wyer spangles thread c. which the Assaying of and Surveying of these Manufactures by your Petitioner will for the future prevent and the advice and assistance of the Company of Goldsmiths will strengthen your Petitioner in this service And your Petitioner shall ever pray c. At the Court at Whitehall Jan. 25. 1634. Present The KINGS most Excellent Majestie Lord Archb. of Cant. Lord Keeper Lord Treasurer Lord Privie Seale Lord Duke of Lenox Lord Mar. Hamilton Earle Marshall Lord Ghamberlaine Earle of Dorset Earle of Carlisle Earle of Holland Lord Cottington Lord Newburgh Mr. Treasurer Mr. Comptroller Mr. Vice Chamberl. Mr. Secretary Coke Mr. Secret Windebank UPon Complaint made this day to his Majestie sitting in Counsel by Sir Henry Mildmay Knight Master of the Jewel-house that much of his Majesties Plate had bin stollen and then melted down into Ingots and unlawfully sold as well to sundry Goldsmiths as to Refiners For proof whereof he presented sundry depositions of which two were read And upon Information given by some of the Wardens and Company of Goldsmiths who did this day attend touching the detriment which ariseth by the undue practices of the said Refiners Who in stead of selling Silver Bullion to the said Company of Goldsmiths or bringing it to the Mint according to the Statute of the fourth year of Henry the seventh do raise the same in finenesse and utter it to the Wiredrawers and others of like Trades at higher rates then either the Mint can allow or the Goldsmiths can give And do thereby cause the Consumption of a great and excessive mass of gold and silver in thread spangles and other unnecessary things His Majestie having taken the premisses into consideration was pleased to order and command with advice of the Board that the said Sir Henry Mildmay shall go to Mr. Attorney General with the said depositions and what he else can produce to that purpose And that the Goldsmiths shall likewise attend the said Mr. Attorney with such informations as they have already or can recover by further Inquirie wherein they are to use all speed and diligence And that thereupon Mr. Attorney shall prosecute in a legal way such as he shall finde to be offendors as well Goldsmiths as Refiners in any of the particulars beforementioned And cause the said Statute against the said Refiners c. to be strictly put in execution And such course to be presently taken that the penalties thereupon may be recovered against such as are or shall be found offendors against the said Statute W. BECHER IN Prosecution of the aforesaid Order and to bring the Offenders to Justice by order of Mr. Secretary Cook and others Mr. Alexander Jackson the sworne Assay-Master of Goldsmiths Hall was commanded to make true Assay of an hundred and twelve several parcels of Gold and Silver lace Spangles burnt Silver some of this silver Lace and Thread holding in Copper above foure ounces on a pound Troy some 6 d. 3 d. 2 d. worse then sterling upon the ounce This was done in April 1635. And in May 1639. all these parcels of Silver Lace Purles Spangles and Thread made and reported by the abovesaid Mr. Alexander Jackson for which service I paid him five pounds as I have his Receipt and Assayes reported under his hand who is now living a Gentleman of great experience and credit and can justifie upon his Oath these several parcels of Silver Lace being all under sterling And I have it Attested under several hands that these parcels of Silver Lace was made uttered and sold against the Lawes of the Kingdom and contrary to the Oath of every Freeman of London every Freeman working any Gold or Silver doth

TWO PETITIONS OF THOMAS VIOLET of LONDON Goldsmith TO THE KINGS Majestie I. Seting forth the great abuses practised by the makers of Gold and Silver Thread Wire Lace to the great waste of the Stock and Treasure of the Kingdome in culling and melting down the heavy currant Silver II. One hundred twelve several parcels of course and adulterate Silver Lace sould for good Silver by several Shopkeepers in London all these assayes certified under the hands of Mr. Alexander Jackson who is sworne Assay-Master at Goldsmiths Hall which Silver was course and adultrate under Sterling being all wrought against the Law III. Ten several Heads or Branches certified by the Committee of Trade the 17th of June 1657. seting forth the several abuses in making Gold and Silver Lace Wire and Thread and several waies set down for the preventing the same for the future to which I humbly referre IV. Thomas Violet's Petition to the Right Honourable several LORDS of the PRIVY COUNCIL who are appointed a Committee for the removing the obstructions of the Mint that their Honours would be be pleased to take Order for the Regulating of this Trade and prevent the abuses put upon the wearers of Gold and Silver Lace and for their fuller information that an Order may be directd from the LORDS of the COUNCIL to the Company of Goldsmiths requiring them for His MAIESTIES service that they forthwith take into consideration to present to your Lordships such Rules Orders and Instructions for the due vending and uttering of the said Manufactures as they in their great experience shall find most necessary for the ends expressed LONDON Printed Anno Dom. 1661. TO THE KINGS MOST Excellent Majestie And to the LORDS of His MAJESTIES most Honourable PRIVY COUNCIL The humble Petition of Thomas Violet Goldsmith Humbly Sheweth THat your Majesties Royal Father of blessed memory upon complaint to him made by many Persons Noblemen Gentlemen Goldsmiths and others and also to his Majesties Privy Councel as appears by Orders of the Privy Council the 25. of January 1634. shewing That much course Gold Silver Lace Gold and Silver Thread Spangles Oaes and Wyre was daily in great quantities sould for good Silver to the great dammage and hinderance of the Mint in the excessive quantities made for inferior persons And that great quantities of English heavy Silver money was culled and melted down daily for the making of these Manufactures to the great wast of the stock of currant Silver and to the daily deceit of the wearers of Gold and Silver Lace And by Order of some of your Majesties Royal Fathers Privy Council viz. Mr. Secretary Cook your Petitioner and some others were imployed to buy up several parcels of Silver Lace in several Silk-men and Wyerdrawers Shops in London and thereupon your Petitioner and some others brought the said Lace Spangles Wyer Purles Oaes to Mr. Alexander Jackson Assay-Master of Goldsmiths-Hall and he Assayed about one hundred and twelve several parcels of Gold and Silver Lace Spangles Thread Wyer c. as appears under his hand All these Assaies being by him the sworne Officer appointed for that service found and reported to be all made of course and adultrate Silver mixed with Copper contrary to the Law being vended for good Silver and the Gentleman is now living a man of great experience skill and credit that can attest this to be true to your Majesties Privy Council And your Petitioner hath the names of the several mens Houses and Shops of the Silk-men Wyerdrawers and others and the day and the year this course adultrate Silver was by them sould These original Papers your Petitioner hath ready to produce to your Majestie and your most honourable Council Thereupon his late Majesty and his Privy Council commanded Sir John Banks your Majesties Father Attorney General to put some of the eminent of the Offendors into the Star-Chamber and thereupon both Refiners and Wyerdrawers petitioned his Majesty for a Corporation and that they would so order themselves that these abuses being so many and fully proved should all be regulated and prevented for the future But upon full examination at the Privy Council his Majesty and the Lords being fully possessed what had formerly been acted by the Wyerdrawers for several years When they had a Corporation that the abuses continued so notoriously notwithstanding the Wyerdrawers Charter that their Corporation was damned in Parliament about the latter end of King James's time in a quiet time this was done and Sir Giles Monpersons had like to be undone for procuring the Wyerdrawers to have a Corporation as will appear in the Parliament Records to which I humbly referre It was demonstrated in that Parliament before your Majesties Royal Father being then Prince that the Wyerdrawers made Silver Wyer with a core of Copper and sould the same for fine Silver your Majesties Royal Father remembring this was both shewed and proved in the Parliament House of Lords he being then present would not trust the Wyerdrawers with a Corporation 1635. his Majestie saying That would give the Gold Wyerdrawers an opportunitie to cozen the Kingdome againe they having cozened the Kingdome of above twenty thousand pounds a year by deceitful making these Manufactures and venting the same for good for these last twenty years May it please your Majestie your Royal Father upon debate and advice of his Privy Council taking special notice of your Petitioners activitie and abilitie to discover and reforme these abuses in consideration of these service did by his Letters Pattents appoint your Petitioner for three lives and the longer liver of them to have and take the charge and care to be the Surveyers Tryers Sealers Assayers of all Gold and Silver Wyer Thread Purles Oaes Spangles and all other Manufactures of this sort and to Mark Register Seal or Assay the same before any of these Manufactures should be exposed to saile with power given to your Petitioner to search for and seaze on all course and adultrate Silver made into any of the aforesaid Manufactures and to burn and deface the same according to the Law to suffer no Silver to be wrought into any of these Manufactures or put to saile but Sterling Silver at the least Your Petitioner hath two lives yet in being his own life and anothers under the great Seal for the grant and allowance of one half penny the ounce Troy for all Silver Wyer Spangles Purles Oaes and four pence the pound Venice which is one half peny the ounce Troy for sealing or surveying all Gold and Silver Thread c. For the consideration of these Fees your Petitioner did keep and is bound to keep at his own charge several persons to give their attendance to Survey or Assay all Gold or Silver Wyer Thread Spangles c. to pay House-rent books wax fire coles c. and to warrant to all persons whomsoever that all Gold and Silver Wyer drawn at the Office appointed by your Majesties Royal Fathers Proclamation should all

be made of good Silver none under Sterling or the Standard And if it should chance any person or persons to be wronged in the premises and buy Gold and Silver Wyer Thread or Lace made and drawn and sealed in the said Office by your Petitioner or his Servants that then your Petitioner should pay full damages to any Person that could find out or discover the same And your Majesties Royal Father set forth his Proclamation and appointed by his Commissioners under the great Seal some of His most honourable Privy Council his Attorney and Solicitor General and Masters of Request and Clarks of the Council His Officers of the Mint and some eminent Aldermen to be His Commissioners giving them instructions under his Majesties sign Manual this being done 1635. by the advice of His Privy Council after many daies hearing at the Council Table These Gentlemen sate every week one day and five made a Committee and sometimes more to regulate and restrain the abuses and they caused some of the Offenders to be set in the Pillory being indicted at Newgate and in the compasse of six years brought the workmen and all people trading in this Manufacture into that good order and decorum that all Gold and Silver Lace Thread Wyer c. was as exactly made as the Plate or moneys of the Kingdom the numbers of Workmen regulated a due Proportion of Silver to Silk whereby this Manufacture was made the best in London of any place in Christendom and your Petitioner seeing all orders and rules setled and made by the Commissioners or any five of them to be duly executed was the principal cause of that Reformation that followed This Regulation was complained of in Parliament 1640. but upon Examination all Parties put to take their Remedy by the Law and I have in all times justified the Regulation Your Petitioner being 1641. first sent by the Parliament a Prisoner to Peter house then a ship board to the Kings Bench in the year 1643. sent close Prisoner to the Tower for near four years being kept in a dungeon 928 daies of that time and had my estate plundred to the valew of eleven thousand pounds and my damage at this day above twenty thousand pounds and threatned to be sent for a slave to Argier for bringing from your Majesties Royal Father from Oxford 1643 a Letter for peace to the City of London In all I was about eight years a Prisoner But upon the persecution of the long Parliament your Petitioner went to your Royal Father to York and the honourable Commissioners appointed for the regulating this Manufacture being Privy Counsellors and other eminent Officers of the Kingdom These Gentlemen almost all of them according to their duties followed your Majesties Royal Father in all his Troubles but since length of Time fortune of the Warres and other casualties almost all of these Honourable Councellors are dead by whose wisdom and care these abuses were regulated and this Regulation afterwards neglected the heavy coines melted Silver slightly and adulterately made to the damage of the Kingdom many hundred thousand pounds within this twenty years In your Petitioners Patent under the Great Seal of England there is this Provisoe that if hereafter the Government or Regulation of this Manufacture by Commissioners be altered or changed into any other form or any other Proclamation for the regulating this Manufacture yet your Petitioners Grant with his Fees and Powers should be and continue firme good and effectual in the Law as appears by your Petitioners Patent dated 7 Sept. 14. Car. which Patent taken out of the Rolls your Petitioner hath left with the Honourable Mr. Attorney General with a Petition to your Majestie formerly referred to the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of your Majesties Treasury touching the Regulation of this businesse 15. Sept. 1661. Your Petitioners humble prayer to your Majestie is that your Majesty would speedily prevent the great abuses and disorders daily practised in the undue making of Gold and Silver Thread Wire Lace Spangles and the unlawful melting of the heavy current silver Coines there being above twenty thousand pounds a year wasted and bruised away by thin and slight making of Silver Lace for the private profit of the Wiredrawers which if it were duly made would all be returned to the melting Pot and avoid that waste of Treasure that by order of your Majestie and your Privy Councel all persons as formerly from 1635. to 1641. be enjoyned to the due essaying of all Silver Wire at the Bar and the Thread sealed and true Registers kept of all Gold and Silver employed in this Manufacture and all Bars and Engines brought into one place according to the Proclamation of your Majesties Royal Father in the 11th year of his Reign that so your Majestie may have a true Accompt what Silver is spent in this Manufacture and so regulate the Excess which is to the prejudice of your Mint that base and inferior persons may not weare the same I humbly beseech your Majesty to read the Reasons of the Committee for Trade fol. 11. 10. Head never to trust the wire-drawers with a Corporation or with the rule government of this Manufacture And then if your Majesty be pleased to compare what your royal Father of blessed memory observed of these wire-drawers in the Parliament when he was Prince that they had deceived their trust and he would not trust them again they have cozened the Kingdome within these twenty years of above twenty thousand pounds a year in slight course and deceitful silver lace and now are endeavoring to get a Corporation to work in iniquity by a Law if your Majesty prevent it not And that your Petitioner may be required to continue his Searches so often as he shall finde just occasion to seize all course Silver under sterling made or making into any of these Manufactures and to deface the same returning the material to the Owner as soon as they are defaced according to his Patent that no Gold or Silver Lace be hereafter mixed in any part with Copper or made under sterling For the better enabling your Petitioner to do this service your Petitioner humbly prayes your Majestie to renew your Royal Fathers former Commission 1635. with such alterations and additions as your Majestie and your Privy Councel with the Attorney General shall judge fit for the persons and the powers to be your Majesties Commissioners for this business Or else if your Majestie and your Privy Councel shall think it meet for your service and the fuller discovery of these abuses never suffer the Gold Wiredrawers to have a Corporation But if your Majestie by advice of your Privy Councel command the Corporation of Goldsmiths by reason the regulating of Gold and Silver is a particular branch of their Trade that they be required by your Majestie to take and view the former regulation of this Manufacture as it was setled by Commissioners from the year 1635.

being taken out of all his imployment to his damage of above 20000 l. and could never obtain any part of his estate to his total ruine without your Majesty in your mercy relieve him Your Petitioner prostrate at your Majesties feet presents to your Majestie the great severity of your Petitioners sufferings there never being the like sad president in the Nation during all these distracted times that a man for bringing up a letter of peace from his late Majesty of glorious memory should be ruined for obeying his Majesties commands the only cause of your Petitioners sequestration and ruine being for so doing That upon complaint made by several persons that great quantities of the currant heavy silver coynes and plate in this Nation is daily melted and wasted for the making of the manufacture of gold and silver thread wyer and lace to the great waste and destruction of the stock of heavy English money and great quantities of gold and silver transported without licence To prevent these abuses your Majesties Royal Father by the advice of his Privy Counsel did grant unto your Petitioner for three lives and the longest liver of them the 7th day of September in the 14th year of his late Majesties reign a Patent under the great Seal of England for the regulating the aforesaid abuses and granted to them and the longer liver of them a Seal being the Rose and Crown with a prohibition to all persons not to presume to counterfeit the same Which Seal was for the fealing of all gold and silver thread which they found upon Assay Survey or Tryal to be made of good silver with a due proportion of silver to silk And your Petitioners had by Patent for two lives four pence the pound weight Venice for warranting all the aforesaid gold and silver thread to be good silver at least Sterling according to the Standard of this Nation And thereupon being made up in skeynes we were to put the aforesaid seal upon it and by their aforesaid grant we were upon the drawing and disgrossing of all gold and silver wyer for the making of spangles oaes purse or gold and silver thread upon the assaying of the said wyer at the bar we were to register the weight and finenesse and thereupon your Petitioner to receive one half penny an Ounce for all wyer employed in any the aforesaid Manufactures and your Petitioner was impowered to receive all duties imposed laid or to be laid upon any the said manufactures Upon consideration of the said Fees your Petitioner is bound in the Exchequer with good security in 1500 l. that all silver assayed sealed marked or surveyed as aforesaid was to be fine silver at the least as good as sterling Whereas many yeares your Petitioner regulated this manufacture and caused the same to be as exactly made as the coyne or plate of this Nation till these sad troubles when the Parliament sequestred your Petitioner And as in duty bound your Petitioner shall pray for your Majesties long health and happinesse Your Petitioners humble prayer is That your Majesty would be pleased to recommond to the Parliament or to your Majesties Commissioners of your Treasury the restraining of the melting of the currant silver coynes of this Nation for the making of any the aforesaid manufactures and against transporting gold and silver and for the due paying of the duties and fees according to the afoaesaid Letters Patents Which will prevent the abuses daily practised and committed and these manufactures shall by your Petitioner for the future be warranted to be good to the wearers or to pay all dammages to the parties grieved according as your Petitioner covenanted in the said Letters Patents And in regard of your Petitioners great sufferings and losses for doing your Royal Majesties Fathers service as aforesaid That your Majesty would be gratiously pleased by patent to make your Petitioner one of your Majesties Auditors for the impresse with the same fees as Auditor Beale and Auditor Bingly formerly received or one of the Tellers of your Majesties Exchequer with the usual fees or that your Majesty would be gratiously pleased to appoint your Petitioner some Office in the Custome-house or Excise your Petitioner by the blessing of God and his own industry and experience will improve your Majesties revenue in the said Offices At the Court at White-Hall 27. June 1660. HIs Majesty being very sensible of the Petitioners Loyalty and sufferings is Gratiously pleased to refer the Consideration and Examination of the Assertions in this Petition to the Lords Commissioners of his Majesties Treasury who are accordingly to inform and certifie his Majesty what their Lordships conceive fit for his Majesty to do for relief of the Petitioner as is desired and then his Majesty will Declare his further Pleasure concerning the Petitioners humble request ROB. MASON This Original Petition and Reference is in the Hands of Sir Phil. Warwick TO THE Right Honourable the Lord High Chancellour of England the Lord High Treasurer of England the Lord Privy Seal the Lord Ashley Chancellour of the Exchecquer being all of the Committee for removing the obstructions of the Mint The humble Petition of Thomas Violet Goldsmith May it please your Lordships WHen I first left this aforesaid Petition with Sir Philip Warwick I was commanded by some of your Lordships to bring into the Lords of the Council a draught of a Proclamation against transporting of Gold and Silver which I did which begat a dispute at the Council of Trade and a Certificate from them for the Merchants to have free liberty to Export Gold and Silver without Licence to have a free Market Whereupon I thought my self bound by my Allegiance considering how much it did import the honour safety and welfare of his Majesty and the Lords of His Privy Council who by the Law can only grant to the Merchants upon their Petition and just Reasons shown leave to transport Gold and Silver out of the Kingdome and I know the mischiefs which might come to the Kingdome if this great trust were left to the Merchants I did humbly according to my best abilities state the Kings right and His Privy Councils by the Law to have the only liberty to dispence with the Statutes against transporting Gold and Silver which Reasons was opposed by some Honourable Gentlemen of the Council of Trade before his Majesty and His Privy Council Sir George Downing and others humbly pressing Arguments for to have that Royal Flower of the Crown and to leave it free to the Merchants and others to transport Gold and Silver Your Petitioner being commanded by his Majesty to give Sir George Downing an answer I was necessitated to make a further Reply and his Majesty was graciously pleased not to part with so great a power and trust to any other then as the Law had invested it his Majesty and His Privy Council being soly the Judges to restrain or licence the transporting Gold and Silver according as they in their wisdoms

them at your Honours feet and though they may not please the Wiredrawers yet I am sure they be for his Majesties service It is true there is twenty thousand souls in London live and have dependance on this Manufacture and that made King James and King Charles suffer this Manufacture to be made here 2. My good Lords it is worthy of consideration the great damage his Majesty sustains in the losse of his Customes the losse and prejudice of his Majesties Mint by suffering the Silver after it is imported into this Kingdome to be made into Silver Lace c. to be diverted from Coyn which would pay a duty of coynage and augment the stock of the Kingdome which is now converted into this Manufacture the valew imployed in Gold and Silver yearly is about one hundred thousand pounds a year in Gold and Silver Lace Wire c. which was it converted into Coine every year and so passed between men would drive a million for commodities a year in Trade to the great improvement of the Kingdome by Commerce and Trade 3. That upon calculation it will be found the King in point of Customes and other Profits loses above ten thousand pounds a year by suffering this Manufacture to be made in England as will appear upon calculation of his Majesties Book of Rates of his Customes 4. That at this day there is no Excise laid on this Commodity which under favour humbly submitting to your great wisdomes is a Commodity may bear an Excise as well and better than almost any thing in the Kingdome gold and silver Lace is a superfluity and it is the wearers payes the Excise not the Silkmen Wiredrawers or other Tradesmen this Trade his Majesty doth allow in favour of the poor women Spinners and other poor people that are above twenty thousand souls who only have their livelyhood from this Manufacture or else for the reasons aforesaid it would not be allowed to be wrought in England 5. Therefore my humble Petition to your Lordships is in regard your Lordships are of the Committee for the removing the obstructions of the Mint that your Lordships settle such an Excise on this Manufacture at the least two pence the Ounce being so much as his Majesty loseth in the coynage of the same to be approved and confirmed by the Parliament for and towards his Majesties losse in His Customes and in his Coynage by suffering this Manufacture to be wrought in England 6. That your Lordship would Order for the future that no inferiour persons as Servants Maids and other mechanick People shall weare gold or silver Lace it being an abuse to persons of honour men and women to have mechanick People and Servants to weare Gold and Silver Lace 7. That your Lordships would be pleased for the service of his Majesty and good of all the wearers of gold and silver Lace which are the Nobility and Gentry of the Kingdome to require the Company of Goldsmiths to consider of such waies and means as they can adde or alter either out of the former Regulation setled by his Majesty 1635. or out of their own knowledg and experience by any other Way or Rules and to use all speed they can therein 8. The Company of Goldsmiths have declared to me before a Court of Assistants that they know there is many abuses in this Trade and if they be required from his Majesty or your Lordships of the Privy Council they would be very ready and willing humbly to consider of such Waies for the prevention of these abuses for the future and upon your Lordships approbation ot alteration of what they shall propound that those Orders and Rules agreed upon by your Honours for the Regulating of this Trade may be recommended by his Maiesty to be confirmed by Parliament and this will be a certain way to prevent these abuses for the future when the restraints and punishments shall be setled by Act of Parliament And so as in duty bound your Petitioner shall daily pray THat after ages and all true Englishmen may see the cruel oppression I sufferd under for being faithful to his sacred Majesty King Charles the first for bringing up to London from Oxford to the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London by his Majesties especial command to me 1643. this his Majesties letter which was as followeth To our Trusty and welbeloved Our Lord Mayor and Aldermen of Our City of London and all other our well affected Subjects of that Ctiy C. R. TRusty and welbeloved We great you well When we remember the many acts of grace and favour We and Our Royal Predecessours have conferred upon that our City of London and the many Examples of eminent dutie and loyalty for which that City hath been likewise famous We are willing to believe notwithstanding the great defection We have found in that place that all men are not so far degenerated from their affection to us and to the peace of the Kingdome as to desire a continuance of the miseries they now feel and therefore being informed that there is a desire in some principal persons of that City to present a Petition to us which may tend to the procuring a good understanding between Vs and that Our City whereby the peace of the whole Kingdome may be procured We have thought fit to let you know That We are ready to receive any such Petition and the persons who shall be appointed to present the same to Vs shall have a safe conduct and you shall assure all Our good Subjects of that Our City whose hearts are touched with any sense of duty to Vs or of Love to the Religion and Lawes established in the quiet and peaceable Fruition whereof they and their Ancestors have enjoyed so great Happinesse That We have neither passed any Act nor made any Profession or Protestation for the maintenance and Defence of the true protestant Religion and the liberties of the Subject which We will not most strictly and Religiously observe and for the which we will not be alwaies ready to give them any security can be desired And of these Our Gracious Letters We expect a speedy Answer from you And so We bid you farewell Given at our Court at Oxford in the 19. year of Our Reign 26. De. 1643. By his Majesties Command George Digbie Thomas Violet POSTSCRIPT LEt any true English man consider of this his Majesties gracious Letter and then remember the bloudy Tragedies that followed for the sins of the Kingdome and every honest man will say the swaying party in that Parliament in Jan. 1643. were great Tyrants and Oppressers or else they would never have kept me in a Dungeon in the Tower 928 dayes and plundered and robbed me to the value of eleven thousand pound for bringing up this Letter from the Kings Majesty from Oxford to the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London but he is well kept that God keeps So I have ever just cause to say and praise God for my miraculous deliverance from those bloudy men FINIS