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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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