An Order of the Lords assembled in Parliament for the due putting in execution of the severall Statutes made against counterfeiting of the Kings Coyne , or the Coyne of any other Kingdome , made currant within this Realme : And also against clipping , fileing , rounding , washing , or litening any of the severall Coynes aforesaid . Die Sabbathi , 13. Martii , 1646.

WHereas by the common Law of England , it is High Treason to counterfeit the proper Coyne of this Kingdome , and is so declared by the Statute of the 25. of Edward the third : And whereas also the forging of any Coyne of any Forraigne Nation , made currant by Proclamation within this Kingdome , is made High Treason by a Statute made in the first yeare of Queene Mary : And whereas also the clipping , washing , rounding , or fileing of any the Moneyes currant in this Kingdome , for wicked lucre or gaines sake , is also made High Treason , by a Statute made in the fifth yeer of the Reign of Queene Elizabeth : And whereas the diminishing , falsifying , scaling or litening , of any the Money currant within this Kingdome , for wicked lucre or gaine sake , is also made High Treason by a Statute made in the eighteenth yeare of Queene Elizabeth : Notwithstanding all which severall Acts of Parliament , and the penalties therein comprized , many and severall persons within the Kingdome of England , and Dominion of Wales , and especially in the Northerne parts of this Kingdome , have of late yeares , and do daily offend and commit with great boldnesse , all and every the said offences , to the great losse of His Majesties Subjects , and the scandall and reproach of this Kingdome , in the Subjects Commerce and Traffique among themselves , and people of other Nations and Countries .

For remedy whereof , It is Ordered by the Lords in this present Parliament Assembled , That all Judges and Justices of the Assize , and Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer , and of generall Goale-Delivery , in their severall Circuits , do straitly and carefully put in execution all and every the said severall Acts of Parliament , against all offenders against the said Acts , or any breach thereof , according to the Lawes and Statutes of this Realme .