An abstract of proposals lately humbly offered to the honourable House of Commons, to prevent the corruption of the coyn. Lewis, John, writer on currency. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B25941 of text R225319 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 B25941 Wing L1840B Interim Tract Supplement Guide 1888.c.11[57] ESTC R225319 ocm99886037

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 eng Coinage -- England -- Early works to 1800. Finance, Public -- England -- Early works to 1800. Money -- England -- Early works to 1800. Adulterated coins -- England -- Early works to 1800. eebo An abstract of proposals lately humbly offered to the honourable House of Commons, to prevent the corruption of the coyn. . Lewis, John, writer on currency. 1695 3 368 2 0 0 0 0 0 54.35 D The rate of 54.35 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2014-05 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-07 Sampled and proofread 2014-07 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
AN ABSTRACT Of PROPOSALS lately Humbly Offered to the Honourable House of Commons , To Prevent the Corruption of the COYN .

THAT an Act be made under such Penalties as may be thought fit , which may oblige all Persons in His Majesties Revenues , all Bankers and Goldsmiths , ( and not further , unless thought Convenient ) to Cut in sunder any Piece of False Money that shall be tendred in Payment , whether Mixt or Plated , in presence of the Person Paying , and to keep such a part thereof as he shall think fit , as a Reward for the Encouragement of his Care ; only that he be obliged ( if required ) to give to the Person Paying some part of each Piece by him Cut 〈…〉 Proof thereof may be made ; and if Good , the Receiver to allow for Every Cut Piece the Value as Coyn'd for , but if otherwise , to be his , as aforementioned , and such a time as may by this Honourable House be thought fit , for the Person Paying to prove such his Pieces , but after Expiration of that time , not to make any Pretences or Demands whatsoever .

As to the Prejudices we feel in Gold Coyns , and for the rectifying the Currency of Guineas , 't is further humbly offered , That some Order be made , That all Light Guineas under such a Weight as shall seem convenient to this Honourable House , may be Cut in sunder , and return'd to the Payer , and some other way found to make the Loss easie to 'em , by appointing some Place where the Broken Gold may be readily chang'd , and the Value of it g●ven 'em in Silver : And when this Proposal shall be approv'd , and made a Law , 't is hop'd it may be the Means of preventing the Running of False , and Preserving the Good Money from Diminution .

JOHN LEWIS .

AN ABSTRACT Of Proposals lately Humbly Offered to the Hon . House of Commons , To Prevent the Corruption of the Coyn .