An acte, touching the exchaunge of golde and Siluer. England and Wales. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A74034 of text S124832 in the English Short Title Catalog. Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B12635 STC 7844.10 Interim Tract Supplement Guide Harl.7608[412] ocm99892848

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 eng Money -- England -- Early works to 1800. Gold -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. Silver -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. eebo An acte, touching the exchaunge of golde and Siluer. . n/a 1552 1 449 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2014-01 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-08 Sampled and proofread 2014-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
An Acte , touching the exchaunge of Golde and Siluer .

WHere in the Parlament holden at westminstre , the xxv . yere of the reigne of king Edwarde the thirde , it was accorded that it should be lawfull for euery man to exchaunge gold for siluer , or siluer for gold , or for gold & siluer , so that no man did holde the same as exchaunged , nor take no profite for making of suche exchaunge , vpon peine of forfeiture of the money so exchaunged , excepte the kinges exchaungers whiche take profite of suche exchaunge , according to an ordinaunce before that time made : Whiche estatute notwithstanding , diuers couetous persones of their owne aucthorities , haue of late taken vpon theim to make exchaunges , aswel of coigned gold , as of coigned siluer , receyuing and paieng therfore , more in value then hath bene declared by the kinges proclamation to be currant for , within this his realme , and other his dominions to the great hinderaunce of the commune wealth of this realme .

Be it therfore enacted by the king our souereigne lord , by thassent of the lordes and commons in this present patlament assembled , & by thaucthoritie of the same , that if any person or persons , aftre the first day of April next coming , exchaunge any coigned gold , coigned siluer , or money , geuing , receiuing , or paieng any more in value , benefite , profite , or aduauntage for it , then the same is , or shal be declared by the kinges maiesties proclamation to be curraunt for , within this his highnes realme , and other his dominions . That then at thesaid coigned golde , siluer , and money so exchaunged , and euery parte and parcel therof shal be forfeit , and the parties so offending shal suffre imprisonment by the space of one whole yere , and make fyne at the Kinges pleasure . The one moitie of thesaied golde , siluer , or coigne , so forfeited to be to the King our souereigne Lorde , and the other moitie to be to the partie that seaseth the same , or wil sue for it by bil , plaint , original , action of debt , information or otherwise in any of the kinges courtes of recorde , in whiche sute , no essoine , protection , or wager of lawe shal lie , be allowed or admitted .

God saue the King .

RICHARDVS GRAFTON typographus Regius excudebat . A . M.D.LII .

Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum .