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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32353	A proclamation against exportation, and buying and selling of gold and silver at higher rates then in our mint as also against culling, washing, or otherwise diminishing our current moneys.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II); Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.	1661 (1661)	Wing C3214; ESTC R225388	4,366	5

so that no man hold the same as exchanged nor take any profit for making of such exchange upon pain of forfeiture of the money so exchanged except the Kings Exchangers And one other Statute made in the fifth year of King Edward the sixth the nineteenth Chapter whereby it was Enacted That if any person or persons after the first day of April then next following should exchange any coyned Gold coyned Silver or money giving receiving or paying any more in value benefit profit or advantage for it then the same then was or should be declared by the Kings Proclamation to be currant for within this Realm and other his Dominions That then all the said coyned Gold Silver and money so exchanged and every part and parcel thereof should be forfeit and the parties so offending should suffer Imprisonment for the space of one whole year and make Fine at the Kings pleasure And one other part of the said Statute made in the said second year of King Henry the sixth the sixth Chapter whereby it was Ordained established That the Merchants Aliens should finde Surety in the Chancery every Company for them of their Company that none of them should bring out of the Realm no Gold nor Silver against the form of the said Statute upon pain of the forfeiture of the same Gold or Silver or the value of the same Which said Laws and Statutes have also been confirmed and strengthened by sundry Orders and Proclamations of Queen Elizabeth King James and King Charles Our Royal Father of blessed memory whereby this Nation hath flourished for many hundred of years famous for her constant Sterling Standard and renowned for her plenteous stock of Moneys and magnificence in Plate until these late distracted times wherein the great Solemnities and Reverence due to the Laws of God and man have been so miserably troden down contemned and violated And We do Publish Charge and Command aswel Our Lord Treasurer of England Chancellor of Our Exchequer and Warden of the Cinque-Ports and his Deputies and all other Our Iudges Barons of the Exchequer Iustices of Peace Officers and Ministers and more especially Our Officers of Our Mint Customers Comptrollers and Searchers and their Deputies and Waiters in all and every of Our Ports and all other Officers and Ministers to whom it may appertain and to all Our Subjects in general that all and every the Statutes and Proclamations aforesaid and all and every Branch and Clause thereof so as aforesaid respectively made against the Exportation of Gold or Silver in coyn or Bullion Iewels Plate or Uessels and buying and selling of all sorts of Gold or Silver above the Rates appointed in Our Mint or other things therein contained as also against Culling Washing or otherwise Diminishing Our currant Moneys be straightly kept duely observed and diligently and carefully prosecuted and put in execution upon pain not only of the Penalties and Forfeitures in the said Statutes or any of them contained but also of Our high Indignation and Displeasure And We do further by these Presents straightly Command and Charge all Merchants and their Factors Masters of Ships Mariners Passengers and all other Our loving Subjects whatsoever that shall have any notice of Gold or Silver in coyn Iewels Plate Uessels Bullion or otherwise whatsoever which shall be hereafter Exported without Our special Licence or Shipped for Exportation reasonable Charges for the Uoyage onely excepted or shall be gathered or got together by change or otherwise with intention to Export or put into the hands of such as shall Export it That they forthwith reveal the same to Our Treasurer of England Our Under-Treasurer or other Our Officers before mentioned for the time being for which their Service every Searcher or other person that shall discover or seize any Gold or Silver in Coyn Iewels Plate in Mass or otherwise in any Ship Uessel or Plate intended to be Exported shall have and receive in reward the one half of the Gold or Silver or the value thereof being seized and recovered to Our use And on the other part if they shall not discover the same as aforesaid they shall incur and receive such condign punishment as by the Laws of this Our Realm and Our Prerogative Royal may be inflicted on them And whereas there is daily a great consumption of the heavy currant Silver Coyns and Bullion of the Kingdom in making Gold and Silver Wyer Gold and Silver Threed Spangles Ones Purles and Lace c. also by the slight and deceitful adulterate making these aforesaid Manufactures of course Silver under Sterling to the great damage and abuse of the Wearers of Gold and Silver Lace and likewise a vast expence and waste of Gold in all sort of Gildings whereby many irregularities and abuses are daily practised therein to the great waste of the Gold of Our Kingdom We do intend and shall in due time take such strict course as shall reduce the makers of these Manufactures into such order that all these abuses formerly put upon Our Subjects shall for the future be prevented and these Manufactures of Gold and Silver dusely regulated and assayed according to the Laws and Statutes of Our Kingdom And We further Will and Command That this Our Proclamation be set up and fixed openly to be read in all and every of Our Custom-houses in this Our Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales Given at Our Court at Whitehall the Tenth day of Iune in the Thirteenth year of Our Reign 1661. GOD SAVE THE KING LONDON Printed by Iohn Bill and Christopher Barker Printers to the KING' 's most Excellent MAJESTY 1661. At the KING'S Printing-House in Black-Friers