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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

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