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B02966 Anno sexto & septimo Gulielmi III. Regis. An act to prevent counterfeiting and clipping the coin of this kingdom. England and Wales. Parliament.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1694-1702 : William III). 1695 (1695) Wing E1153AC; ESTC R175051 5,438 4

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Anno Sexto Septimo Gulielmi III. Regis An Act to Prevent Counterfeiting and Clipping the COIN of this Kingdom WHereas it is Manifest that of late Years the Currant Coin of this Kingdom hath been greatly Diminished by Clipping Rounding Filing and Melting the same and likewise many False and Counterfeit Coins have been Clipped for the better Disguising thereof And for as much as it is Apparent that these Practices of Diminishing the Currant Coin is very much occasioned by those who Drive a Trade of Exchanging Broad Money for Clipped Money and by other Arts and Devices Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That from and after the First Day of May which shall be in the Year of our Lord One thousand six hundred ninty five if any Person or Persons whatsoever shall at any one Time or Payment Exchange Lend Sell Borrow or Buy Receive or Pay any Broad Silver Money or Silver Money Unclipt of the Coin of this Kingdom for more in Tale Benefit Profit or Advantage than the same was Coined for and ought by Law to go for be Lent Sold for Borrowed or Bought Received or Paid shall Forfeit the Sum of ten Pounds for every twenty Shillings that shall be so Exchanged Lent Sold Borrowed or Bought Received or Paid and so in proportion for any Greater or Lesser Sum One Moiety thereof to His Majesty and the other Moiety to the Person who shall Sue or Inform for the same to be Recovered with Costs of Suit by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information wherein no Priviledge Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed nor any more than One Imparlance And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Person do or shall presume to cast Ingots or Bars of Silver in imitation of Spanish Bars or Ingots of Silver nor do Stamp any Mark or Impression upon any Ingot or Bar in Likeness of the Spanish Marks or Impressions upon pain that the Person herein Offending shal for every such Offence Forefeit the Silver so cast and also the Sum of Five hundred Pounds one Moiety to his Majesty and the other to the Informer to be Recovered as aforesaid And for the better preventing the Clipping Diminishing or Impairing the Currant Coin of this Kingdom Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Person whatsoever shal Buy or Sell and knowingly have in his Custody or Possession any Clippings or Filings of the Currant Coin of this Kingdom he shal for every such Offence forefeit the said Clippings or Filings and also the Sum of Five hundred Pounds One Moiety to his Majesty and the other to the Informer to be Recovered as aforesaid and shal be also Branded in the Right Cheek with a Hot Iron with the Letter R and until payment of the said Five hundred Pounds shal suffer Imprisonment And be it further Enacted That no Gold-smith or other Person whatsoever shal from and after the said first Day of May Transport or cause to be Transported out of this Kingdom of England into any parts beyond the Seas any Molten Silver whatsoever but such only as shal be Marked or Stamped at Goldsmith-hall by the Wardens some or one of them belonging to the said Company of Gold-smiths which Mark or Stamp the said Wardens are hereby required to provide and therewith to Mark or Stamp all such Silver as shal be proved before them or one of them in such manner as is hereafter mentioned to be lawful Silver nor unless a Certificate be first had and obtained under the Hand of one or more of the said Wardens of Oath having been made before him or them by the Owner or Owners of such Molten Silver and likewise by one Credible Witness that the same is lawful Silver and that no part thereof was before the same was Molten the Currant Coin of this Realm nor Clippings thereof nor Plate wrought within this Kingdom which Oath the said Wardens or any of them are and is hereby Required and Authorized to Administer and likewise to make and grant a Certificate thereof without Fee or Reward an Entry of which Certificate shall be duly made by the said Wardens in a Book to be kept for that purpose And in case any Person whatsoever who shal offer any Molten Silver to be Marked as is aforesaid shal not prove by his or her Oath and likewise by the Oath of one Credible Witness that the Silver offered to be Marked is lawful Silver and that the same was not before the Melting thereof the Currant Coin of this Kingdom nor Clippings thereof nor Plate wrought within the same then and in every such Case it shal be Lawful to and for the said Wardens or any one of them to Seize and Detain such Molten Silver so offered to be Marked until such time as such Oath and Proof shal be made as is aforesaid And be it further Enacted That if any Person whatsoever shal ship or cause to be shipt or put on Board any Vessel any Molten Silver not Stamped or Marked by the said Wardens or one of them and without Certificate first obtained of Oath having been before the said Wardens or one of them of the Lafulness of such Silver in manner as is aforesaid which Certificate shal be shown to some one of the Commissioners of the Customs for the time being before any Cocket be granted for the Exporting such Molten Silver in such case it shal and may be lawful to and for any Officer or Officers of his Majesties Customs to seize such Silver so shipped and put on Board one Moiety whereof shal be to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors and the other Moiety to the Officer and Officers so seizing the same And be it further Enacted That if any Broger or Broker not being a Trading Goldsmith or Refiner of Silver shall buy or sell any Bullion or molten Silver every such person shall suffer for every such Offence Imprisonment for six Months without Bail or Mainprize And for the better Discovery of Offenders in the Premisses Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful to and for one or more of the Wardens of the said Company of Goldsmiths with any Two or more of the Court of Assistants of the said Company within the Compass of the Weekly Bills of Mortality and to and for any two Justices of the Peace within any County City or Town Corporat out of the Compass of the Weekly Bills of Mortality to enter into the House Room or Workshop of any person who shall be suspected to be Guilty of buying or selling unlawful Bullion and to search for the same and in case the Occupier or Occupiers of such House Room or Workshop shall refuse to permit the said Warden and Assistants or Justices to make such search as