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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