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A65084	Proposals humbly presented to His Highness Oliver, Lord Protector of England, &c. and to the High Court of Parliament now assembled for the calling to a true and just accompt all committee-men, sequestrators, treasures, excize and custom-commissioners, collectors of monthly assessments and all other persons that have been entrusted with the publick revenue or have in their custody any thing of value appertaining to the Commonwealth ... / by Tho. Violet.	Violet, Thomas, fl. 1634-1662.	1656 (1656)	Wing V585; ESTC R23589	138,237	248

they were pardoned of might have their Pardons under the Great Seal of England for what offenses and abuses in their Trades they had done contrary to the Laws of this Nation and Mr Attournie Generall by order of the King and Counsel to stop his Proceedings against them and the rest of the Refiners both in the Exchequer and Starr-Chamber The Refiners Alderman Wolastone and Alder. Gibbs thereupon offer to pay his Majestie six pence the ounce for all Wyer that should bee disgrossed and spent in that Munufacture And they drew in six other Refiners to bee their fellow Partners and Monopolists and to pay the Rent of a fair hous above one hundred and twenty Pounds a year to pay Clarks wages and other incident charges And this Office they did execute several moneths in the year 1635. before the King would give Alderman Wolaston and Alderman Gibbs their pardons for their offenses And much adoe then they had to get their Pardons for when their pardons were at the Signet Office Sr Henry Mildemay got the King to stop their pardons And this Sr John Cook the Secretary of State told me That Sr Henry Mildemay had presented to the late king how grosly both Alderman Gibbs and Alderman Wolaston had abused the Commonwealth contrary to the Law and how they had surprised the King in getting their Pardons and that they deserved to bee made exemplar I am sure according to the usuall way of the Court Alderman Wolaston and Alderman Gibbs could not remove such obstructions but with great summs though the particular summs I never knew And I was desired by Mr Secretry Cook at Oatlands on Sunday after Diner to go presently to London to Alderman Gibbs and Alderman Wolaston which accordingly I did to let them know from him their Pardons were stopped by the King and that they should attend him about it which accordingly Alderman Gibbs and Alderman Wolaston the next morning did I was well acquainted for I had paid for it what the meaning of such a message was to bee sent by me to Alderman Gibbs and Alderman Wolaston And I did believ that they had not come up to a full price nor paid so much as was expected and I knew that was the main stop of their Pardons Upon this Offer of the Refiners to pay the King six pence the ounce beeing asmuch again as the Gold-wyer-drawers had offered by their Petition the Gold-wyer-drawers were laid aside with their Petition and Propositions by the late King and his Counsel as inconsiderable persons And the Refiners Alderman Gibbs and Alderman Wollaston by their craft getting to bee great with the Attorney General Bankes Secretary Cook Sir William Beecher and other Courtiers got to bee the onely men to carry on this Project for being the Kings Agents to furnish One hundred thousand pounds a year for this manufacture And the late King to gratifie the Refiners who had bid him so roundly granted Alderman Wollaston and Alderman Gibbs their pardons under the great Seal of England the rest of the Refiners being then but young men were esteemed as rascal Deer they had not wool on their Backs nor had committed sins enough for to have their pardons under the great Seal of England and so got dismissed by Order of the Lords of the Counsel in the Court of Starr-Chamber And the King appoints the Refiners viz. Alderman Wollaston Alderman Gibbs Henry Patrickson Daniel Stalworthy William Haward Richard Gibbs Thomas Nowel and Walter Hill under the great Seal of England to bee called by the name of his Majesties Agents for the refining of One hundred thousand pounds Gold and Silver a year for this Business And they had not a bare title onely of that name for the late King allowed them to share with him and to tax the People in their prizes to sell their gilt silver Wyer two pence upon every ounce and the silver Wyer one penny upon every ounce more then divers Goldsmiths of London offered to sell the Wyer-drawers And this was offered several times by Captain Williams the late Kings Goldsmith a man of a great and vast Estate Mr Footer Mr Symonds and divers other able rich men And good securitie offered to the late Kings Commissioners and at the Counsel Table at Whitehall for the performing of Covenants But this would not bee granted by the late King or his Counsel And this gave the great Offence in Parlament 16●0 it being found by the Parlament upon Examination that so great and numerous a company as the Company of Goldsmiths and Gold-wyer-drawers are should bee debarred so great a branch in their Trade as this is For it will be justified and credibly demonstrated to your Highness and the Parlament that these aforesaid eight Refiners whereof Alderman Gibbs and Alderman Wollaston had one half of the Trade and stock as appears by the Monopolie got more for their own particular profit by monopolizing to themselves the sale of all Gold and Silver Wyer for this Manufacture being one hundred thousand pounds a year then all the Goldsmiths in London which are many hundred families did get at that time by selling all the new Plate in London And I am confident all knowing Goldsmiths will calculate it so which was and is the principal part of the Goldsmiths Trade The Duty reserved to the King in lieu of his Customs was nothing so odious to the Wyer-drawers in comparison as the Refiners Monopoly was The Wyer-drawers constantly affirmed to the King and his Counsel and to the Kings Commissioners that the Refiners Monopoly was contrary to Law and upon a dispute at the Counsell Table the King called the Refiners Alderman Gibbs and Alderman Wollaston his Sheep and the Wyerdrawers he called his Goats but in the conclusion both these Refining Aldermen proved the Kings Majesties Sheep biters And the late King pressed the Wyer-drawers at his Counsell Table to conform themselvs to the Regulation but some of the Wyer-drawers told the said King They would submit to the Law but not to the Refiners Monopoly and that it was against the Law that Freemen of the City of London should bee restrained a Free Market to enrich private men and to make them Aldermen Besides the Gold-wyer-drawers were compelled upon great penalties as appears by their Bonds to buy no Silver wyer for their manufacture but of the said Alderman Wallaston Alderman Gibbs and the other six Pat●ntees joined with them and oftentimes the Refiners Gibbs and Wollaston pressed the Commissioners to cause searches and complaining they were at great charges paying Clerks wages and Hous-rent and therefore desired searches and seisures of such Wyer-drawers silver which did not buy of them And they forced all persons to pay them two pence the ounce for all gilt wyer and a penny the ounce for all silver wyer more then they ought or needed to have done had the Wyer-drawers been permitted to have had a free market And the Goldwyerdrawers paid this for divers years together as is

and furious carreer of Alderman Gibbs and Alderman Wollaston while they were the Kings Agents in the Kings time but to save their skins when the times altered they could presently change their notes put on sheep-skins and would appear as Lambs they would be full of godlie expressions in Guild-hall Goldsmiths-hall and many other places in the City and bee highly for the Covenant and amongst their Brethren storm at the oppression of the Times and at Projectors and Monopolizers when there was none greater then themselvs as appears by this Monopoly They have said at a common Hall in Guild-hall when I was sent to the Tower that I was the Monopolist and Pattentee for this Manufacture when truly I neither had heart or hand in it nor any manner of wa●●s concerned in the buying or selling the silver Wyer for this Manufacture If I would I could not for the aforesaid Ind●●ture between the King Gibbs and Wollaston sets forth that onely eight Refiners were the Pattentees and none others enjoy notwithstanding the Statute made in the fourth year of Hen. 7th cap. 2. and notwithstanding the Statute made in the 5th and 6th years of Edw. 6th cap. 19. intituled The Penaltie for Exchange of Gold and Silver And notwithstanding the Statute of 18 Eliz. cap. 15. or any other Act Statute Law Ordinance Proclamation Provision or restriction whatsoever to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And his Majestie for Him and his Heirs and Successors did will ordain and declare that during the continuance of this his Grant his Majestie his Heirs and Successors will not give or grant any libertie licence or power or authoritie to any person whatsoëver other then unto such as have already served or shall hereafter serve as Apprentices wholly and only to the Art of Refining and parting Gold and Silver by the space of seven years as the said John Wollaston William Gibbs and other the parties before named have done to bee made expended and imploied in or about the making gold or silver thread or any the several Manufactures herein before mentioned And the afore-said persons every one for himself did covenant and promise to and with his Majestie his Heirs and Successors that from time to time during the terme granted to perform their best endeavors in and by all lawfull waies and means for the promoting and advancing of his Majesties benefit and service in the premisses And his Majestie for him his Heirs and Successors during the term thereby granted did Covenant to vouchsafe his and their assistance to the said Agents and the Survivors of them for the better performance and discharging of the said Agencie and all other the premisses so by them undertaken according to the tenor and true meaning of the said Grant In witness whereof to the one part of this Indenture remaining with the said Agents Our Sovereign Lord the King hath caused the Great Seal of England to be put And the other part remaining with his said Majestie the said John Wollaston William Gibbs Henry Patrickson Daniel Stallworthy William Haward Richard Gibbs Thomas Nowell and Walter H●ll have set their hands and Seals the day and year first above written Anno Dom. 1636. Witness Our Self at Westminster the 7th daie of May in the twelfth year of our Reign I have the Copie of this Monopoly of the Refiners verbatim at large sworn and attested ready to bee produced if required May it pleas your Highness THese are the chief Heads of the Monopolie granted by the late King Charles 1636. to Sir John Wollaston Alderman and Alderman William Gibbs and others Refiners of the City of London This monopolie was complained of to the late King and his Counsel by some of the Wardens and Companie of the Goldsmiths in Anno 1636. and since oftentimes to the late King and his Commissioners both by several Goldsmiths and Wyerdrawers as being a great loss and abuse to the whole Company of Goldsmiths in Annis 1637 1638 and 1639 and is against the Statute of 21. Jac. cap. 3. and several other Acts of Parlament and against the Common Law of the Land and the Charter of the City of London By this monopoly they ingrossing into a few particular mens hands for their private lucre and gain under the specious pretence of the Kings service which was the ordinary mask used by Pattentees and Monopolists of that time the lively-hood and subsistance of many hundred Goldsmiths and Wyerdrawers which by the Charter of the Company of Goldsmiths ought not to have been debarred and by the custom of the City of London were legally impowered to refine Silver and Gold aswell as the said Refiners were And though this was oftentimes offered it was alwaies denied and opposed by the Refiners who had got this monopoly in their Iron clutches and would not let go their hold till their monopolie was put down by the Parlament upon the Petition of the Gold-wyer-drawers as aforesaid I have left with the honorable Committee for Trade in Aug. 1656. several humble Proposals for the just and due regulation of this Trade of Refining and Gold and Silver-wyer-drawing If they bee put in execution the Manufacture will bee again justly and truly made the Coyn and Bullion of the Nation preserved and your Highness Revenue augmented But as the Manufacture of Gold and Silver Thread c. is now made the wearers thereof are many of them cozened and the Coyns and Plate of the Nation melted to the great dammage of the Nation and every day new Cheats are invented to deceive the Wearers by Wheels or Engines Therefore I most humbly pray for either a due Regulation of Gold and Silver Thread and Wyer c. or the making to bee put down in England especially at this time now wee have a Warr with Spain strictly to look that none of the Coyns of the Nation or Plate bee melted down for any of these Manufactures 8. That within these three months in June last Mr Alexander Jackson the Assaie-master of Goldsmiths-hall beeing desired to go to the Excize-Office to make an assay of some Silver that was made into Wyer for this manufacture seized on an Ingott of course Silver about 30l. which was thirteen penny weight worse then the Standard And weekly upon strict examination it will bee found that great quantities of course silver hath been made into these Manufactures This Silver as I am informed belongs to a Refiner and it is both contrary to the Law and a breach of his Oath to prepare any such Silver for any Manufacture I have many Assayes under Mr Jacksons hand the Assay-master of Goldsmiths-hall where four ounces of Copper hath been mixed and put into eight ounces of Silver and sold for good Silver by some Silkmen and Wyer-drawers to the intolerable deceipt of the Wearers of gold and silver Lace And whereas all persons should make gold and silver Thread to hold six ounces Silver to three ounces of Silk it hath been ordinary and at this day

or melted down any of the currant coyns of England or of any Gold or Silver bulloin to have it passed by with a generall Pardon The Committee for the mint taking Especiall notice of the greate mischeifs that have hapned to the Nation by the said abuses when the general pardon was drawing up they made this order to prevent the Offendors escaping their due punishment viz. At Whitehall Jan 24. 1651. Mr Attorney Generall At a Committee of the Counsell of State for the Mint this inclosed exception was presented to the Committee to have it inserted in the Generall pardon The Committee do hold fit for the benefit of the Commonwealth to have this exception inserted in the Pardon and do recommend it to you accordingly viz. Except all offences don and committed by any person whatsoever in transporting out of England any gold or silver in Coyn or Bullion without licence and all other offences in the unlawfull buying selling exchanging and melting down of any the currant silver moneys or Bullion against whom or for which any information is now depending in the Court of Exchequer at Westminster Ordered that Mr Thomas Violet attend Master Attourney General with this order of the Committee and also the Committee of Parlament for drawing the General pardon to have these offences excepted James Harrington Herbert Morley I did attend the Committee of Parlament and Master Attourney General with this abovesaid order and they did insert the exception in the General pardon and so none of these offenders are pardoned the offenders are liable to the Law at this day At the Committee at Whitehall August 16. 1649. Ordered that a Committee bee appointed to take into consideration the business of the Coyn and the Par between us and other Nations and how the coyn of this nation may bee kept from being carried out and likewise to consider of som means Whereby the Mint may bee set on work and they are to speak with any persons they think good about it December 20. 1649. THe Committees names Lord President Bradshaw Sir James Harrington Sir Gilbert Pickering Sir William Constable Mr Scot Mr Bond Collonel Purefoy Collonel Joanes Mr Thomas Challoner Sir Henry Mildemay Collonel Morley Mr Allen Mr Darley Mr Cornelius Holland Mr Nevil or any two of them Sir James Harrington had the Chaire for this Committee hee writes to mee this Letter viz. SIR BEeing informed of your abillity and readiness to make tender of such proposals as may bee for the service of the Common-wealth I thought fit to desire you that I may speak with you to morrow in the afternoon being Tuesday about two a Clock at which time you shall finde mee at my lodgings in the Stone Gallery in Whitehall 12 Jan. 1649. Your loving friend James Harrington For Mr Thomas Violet these And at the desire of Sir James Harrington and Mr Thomas Challoner and others of the Honorable Committee for the Mint I did write to Holland for all the principal Coynes in Christendom and did deliver many of them to the officers of the Mint to make an assay of them which several pieces of forrain gold and silver were assayed in the Presence of the Committee of the Mint they being there at the Tower several dayes to make these Trials where I attended them and I sent into Holland France and Flanders for all their several Placares and did procure the Lawes and Ordinances for regulating their respective mints with the several standards and weighits for their Coyns gold or silver to be translated and thereupon the Commitee of the Mint caused the principall of these forrain Coynes to bee ingraven with their weight and finenes of every piece according to the standard of each mint both gold and silver what it ought to weigh with a just Calculation of the vallue what all the several Species would make in the Tower of London and the penny weight and graines that everie such forrain Specie or Coyn would make in the Tower of London and what proportion our gold and silver held with the mints of Flanders France and Holland and this was exactly calculated by the officers of the Mint and my self in the years 1651 and 1652 and all the proceedings thereupon After many moneths time and the several Coynes graven in Copper Plates were delivered into the custody of Sir James Harrington the chairman of that committee to report them unto the Hous but the Parlament being dissolved 20 April 1653. the Act against the Transporters of Gold and all the Proceedings concerning the regulation of the mint was stopped for that time There had been severall Agitations concerning this Act in the hous manie times in Parlament viz. 18. March 1640. The business of the examination of the transporting Goldand Silver referred to the Committee that was appointed to consider of the state of the Kings Army and Thomas Violet appointed by that order of Parlament to prosecute this business An order of Parlament 1 September 1647. That the Committee of the navie consider of som effectual cours to prevent the Transportatim of Bullion and to report what they have don to the hous The Committee of the Navy 2. September 1647. direct their order to the Commissioners and officers of the Customs and particularly to Mr Edward Watkins then head Searcher and they were all desired to consider of som cours to prevent the Transportation of Bullion out of the nation In October 1647. All the Commissioners with the chief officers of the Custom-house set down several waies for the prevention of the Transporting of Gold and Silver which the Marchants by all secret means do daily Transport The Committee of the Navy by their order of the third of Dec. 1647. directed their order to the officers of the Mint to certifie their opinions what waies courses were to bee taken for preventing the Transporting of Gold Silver out of the nation The officers of the Mint after great consultation and consideration having taken good advice som of them having had long experience viz. Mr. Palmer and Mr Cogan were the fitter to give advice first the officers of the Mint upon their certificate desire that all the Transporters of Gold and Silver and such as have melted down the currant Coyn of the nation may bee brought to justice to Deterr others from acting the like abuses for the future Secondly that according to the president of the statute of 14 Richard 2. Cap. 12. A Commission bee granted to make enquirie through the nation after all such as had conveyed the moneys of England out of the nation and of all such as culd out and melted the heavy currant money 4 Hen. 4. Cap. 10. the sixth of Edward 6. Cap. 19. Touching the exchange of Gold and silver to bee put in execution that whosoever gives more for Gold or Silver then it is or shall bee declared shall make fine at pleasure of the State To conclude they say in their Certificate that the Mint cannot bee imployed

of Life and Estate in Spain to Transport Silver if you confess it or bee taken doing it And whether wee had Peace or Warr with Spain the Silver had been all the States For what silver belonged to Holland the Dutch they could not Claim by the last Articles of Peace And what the Spaniard Claimed heer by Merchants would have all been denyed in Spain for no man there would confess the Transporting Treasure And if the Bills of Lading and the Laders were denyed to bee true in Spain the State had done their work I have stated this business at large to shew the great Expence trouble hazard and pains the hard and difficult wayes I found out I made use of Sea-men that were Passengers Merchants English Strangers all sors of people and all interests to effect this service I took pains night and day And I most humbly say if I bee impowered by your Highness to have a full Inspection into the Frauds of the Accomptants and Treasurers of this Nation with power to act as Remembrancer And to have the same power as Doctor Walker gave mee in the Admlraltie to inspect into all manner of proceedings of Committee men and Accomptants and Frauds of the Nation as aforesaid I will most humbly undertake upon the peril of my life to bring your Highness in many hundred Thousand Pounds Provided I may have just reward and encouragement for what I have done already Vpon my humble Petition to your Highness and the Counsel for my satisfaction for the staying the Silver Ships The Counsel of State made this order Wednesday 16 January 1652. ORdered the humble petition of Thomas Violet with the These Papers annexed to my Petition are the Originall Affidavits of my Expenses and Charges in this Business and Warrants from Doctor Walker and the Counsel to require mee to do this Service and they remain now in Mr Jessop's custody Papers annexed bee referred to Generall Montague and Colonel Sidenham to bee by them considered of And the fact with their opinion reported to the Counsel Henry Scobell Clerk of the Councel Tuesday 22 January 1655. ORdered that Mr Srickland bee added to the Committee to whom the Petition of Thomas Violet is referred Henry Scobell Clerk of the Counsell Vpon these Orders of the most Honorable Counsell I writ this Letter ensuing A Copie of my Letter to the Lord Bradshawe May it please your Honor SInce the Order for the taking up the Accompts of this Nation I have found in Mr John Corbet's Custody hee being one of the Committee for Salop three of my Bonds of 2000 pounds for the Payment of one Thousand Pounds to mee Thomas Violet and the State never received Penny for them Whereupon I have Petitioned his Highness and the Counsel of State for these three Bonds as part of my satisfaction and Mr Corbet hath been sent to by Mr Scobell and was with the Committee Yesterday and confessed that hee had the Bonds and that the State never received Penny of them This Mr Corbet told my Lord Strickland and Colonel Jones and that hee would deliver them unto mee if hee had the Counsels Order I have likewise Petitioned the Counsel that for the present I might have five hundred pounds in part of my satisfaction which money I laid out in the Prosecution of the silver Ships Sampson Salvador and George And this I have proved upon the Oaths of Five men And Dr Walker and the Commissioners for Prize goods have sent these Affidavits up to the Counsel for my satisfaction And these Certificates and Affidavits remain sealed together in Mr Jessop's custody And I had the Counsel of States faithfull promise but chiefly and above all I relyed upon Your Honor for the Restoration of my Estate or the Value the Parlament having taken from mee to the value of above Eleven Thousand Pounds in Houses Lands Bonds Moneys and Offices when by Gods law nor the law of this Nation at the time when they took away my Estate I had not forfeited one penny If it had not been for my protesting against the Discharge of the Silver and my prosecution of that business the Silver had all been let slip out of the Nation I most humbly beeseech your Honor to acquaint Mr Scobell of my severall services and defire him that hee bee carefull to draw up my order for my bonds that I may bee enabled to sue and prosecute them as freely as if they had never been under Sequestration And that I may have for the present my monies I have expended in this service against the Silver Ships It is a lamentable Case my Usage for mee to bring the State nere four Hundred Thousand Pounds And to bee put to Petition for the monies I laid out of my purs At the Counsel of States and at Doctor Walkers Entreaty I imployed people to do this service as I can make it appear under his hand My condition I humbly conceiv is not to bee matched I having done so good Service and been so ill requited It will make all men afraid to trust to English States mens promises If I would have betrayed my trust and my Country I take God to witness I was several times offered ten thousand Pounds of some of the Claimers of this Silver Which had I done it I need not either to have stayed in this Country or to have petitioned for my Bonds or Charges Your Honors most humble and Obbiged Servant THO. VIOLET The Lord Bradshaw's Report on the side of this Letter written with his own hand viz. I Must needs affirm That it appeared to the late Council of State that Mr Violet did very good service to the Parlament and Common-wealth touching the Ships mentioned in this Letter and deserved good acknowledgment and satisfaction for it as being very instrumental in discovering the Dues to the State and finding out frauds in this and other particulars for which in those times hee was thought worthy of Consideration February 7. 1655. John Bradshaw For this his Justice in certifying the Truth I give his Honor most humble thanks I Presented this Letter and Certificate to som of the Honorable Council who when they had read it replyed They wondred my Lord Bradshaw and the Council of State did not give mee satisfaction when I did this service saying They could have done it and if they would they might have kept their promise they then had power enough to do it TO which I humbly answer My agreement with the Lord Bradshaw and the Council of State was That I should bee paid eleven thousand pounds for this service out of the first moneies the State coyned of the silver in these ships after I should by good and legal witness disprove the Spanish Ambassadors Claim Or I should bee restored to my estate in Offices Lands Bonds Money and Houses the Parlament had taken from mee with all my dammage Now may it pleas your Highness neither the Lord Bradshaw nor the Council all the time