Proposals humbly offered to the honourable House of Commons, for the reducing of guineas, at once, agreeable to the present standard of silver, with some advantage to the King, and little, if any loss to the people. James, William, fl. 1689-95. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B25216 of text R224680 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. 2KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B25216 Wing J441 Interim Tract Supplement Guide 816.m.10[34] ESTC R224680 ocm99885586

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 eng Finance, Public -- Great Britain -- 1688-1815. Guinea (Coin) -- Early works to 1800. Coinage -- England -- Early works to 1800. Money -- Early works to 1800. eebo Proposals humbly offered to the honourable House of Commons, for the reducing of guineas, : at once, agreeable to the present standard of silver, with James, William, active 1689-95. 1696 2 384 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. 2014-03 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-11 Sampled and proofread 2014-11 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
PROPOSALS Humbly Offered to the Honourable House of Commons , For the Reducing of GUINEAS , at once , agreeable to the present Standard of Silver , with some Advantage to the King , and little , if any Loss to the People .

THAT all Persons on a certain day do declare and bring in the Number of their Guinea's , or other Coined Gold , to Persons appointed in every Parish to take Accompt thereof , or else to lose the over-value above the Price set by Parliament .

Guinea's to be Valued at 30 sh . and other Gold proportionable .

The King to take all the Gold at the said Price , paying to the Owners Two thirds in Money , and the other Third in Bills or Tallies made Currant by Parliament : That is to say , for a 100 Guineas to pay 100 l. in Money , either Gold or Silver , and to give a Bill or Talley of 50 l. for the rest .

These Bills or Tallies to be sunk One tenth part yearly .

Guinea's then to be set at 21 sh . 6 d . or 22 sh . as the Parliament Please .

By this Method the King will have the 1 sh . 6 d . or 2 sh . over on every Guinea towards the Charges of the Bills or Tallies , and the People saved from Loss by the fall of Guinea's .

To prevent Counterfeiting the Bills or Tallies , they may be renewed ( at an Office appointed for that purpose ) once every Year , upon a small Charge allowed for the same , and at the same time a piece of Sealed or Stamp'd Parchment go along with every Bill or Talley , which upon every Transfer each Person sets his Name and Place of Abode .

If it be Objected , That it is unreasonable to impose these Bills or Tallies upon the King or People in Payments .

It may be Provided , That in all Payments where Bills or Tallies are given , there shall be the like Sum Paid in Money , or else no Person be obliged to receive them .

W. JAMES .

GUINEAS Reduc'd without LOSS .