Proposals humbly offered to the Honorable House of Commons, for calling the coyn of England, and prevent any further clipping. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B28461 of text R20212 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. 5KB 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 B28461 11769461 Wing P3757 Interim Tract Supplement Guide 816.m.10[41] ESTC R224687 ESTC R20212 ocm99883280

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 eng Counterfeits and counterfeiting -- England -- Early works to 1800. Coinage -- England -- Early works to 1800. Money -- England -- Early works to 1800. Adulterated coins -- England -- Early works to 1800. eebo Proposals humbly offered to the Honorable House of Commons, for calling the coyn of England, and prevent any further clipping. . n/a 1696 2 787 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. 2014-06 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
PROPOSALS Humbly Offered to the HONORABLE House of Commons , For Calling the Coyn of England ; And PREVENT any Further CLIPPING .

THAT all Clipt Mony of this Kingdom may be Called to a Place Appointed by the last Day of May , or in June .

That 24. of this Honourable House may be Chosen as Commissioners for the Assisting , Receiving and Weighing of the Clipt Mony , and that any Five be Acorum to the same ; Only one Day in the Week , by which means will avoid all the Defrauds that can be in such a Great thing .

That all the Mony that shall be brought may be Weigh'd , and the Bearer thereof shall have the like Weight in New Coyn , and what falls short , to have a Bill , Note , or Tally with Interest of 6 per : to be paid every Year , such a Part thereof , and to extinguish the said Notes , Bills , or Tallies in 5 or 6 Years time , which by the Fund propos'd will fully pay this Debt .

That the said 24 Commissioners , or any Five of them may be Receiving the said Mony Brought to the Place Appointed , and deliver it to the Mint , and Receive it back again ; and so from time to time , which can make no Defraud in no way .

That all the Mony shall Pass , be Coyn'd of its Value and Weight , as hath been in former Reigns .

That all Mony now Coyn'd shall pass at the Rate of 5 s . 6 d . per Crown , of which the 6 d . shall go towards the Loss of the Clipt Mony ; and at the End of 5 or 6 Years above mentioned , the said 6 d . may be taking of and by a Stamp upon the said Mony , will appear to be paid , and then to go Currantly for 5 s . If this Honourable House thinks fit ; Preventing by these means the melting of it down , and sending it out of this Kingdom .

That also the Mill'd and Broad Mony shall be Brought to be Stampt upon the same , and pay 6 d . per Crown towards the Loss of the Clipt Mony , which shall pass for 5 s . 6 d . that makes the Mony equal , and at the said 5 or 6 Years , be like the other New Coyn , and pay the Six pence laid on it again ; and those that brings the said Mill'd and Broad Mony , to have Three Half Pence Advantage , which will prevent sending it out , or melting it down .

That no Clipt Mony may pass in this Kingdom upon the Penalty , &c. as well to those that Receive it , as those that Pays it , by which means may avoid that Little Unclipt remaining .

Effectual ways for Preventing the sending out our Mony or Bullion of this Kingdom .

THAT all the Bullion that comes to this Kingdom shall be Entred at the Custom-House by whom it belongs to paying no Duty nor Fees .

That all Forreign Bullion that is Exported , the Importer as well as the Exporter shall make Oath , That it is the same formerly Imported , which is Exported upon Penalty of Forfeiting the same .

That the Commissioners of the Custom-house do give Leave to any that shall Inform before them , to take one of their Surveyors down with him to Seize it .

That no Bullion may be Exported in any Forreign Bottom of Man of Wan , for they cannot go a Board to Seize any .

A FUND for the Raising 7 or 800000 L. in 5 or 6 Years time , to pay the Notes , Bills , or Tallies given .

2 s . 6 d . Upon every Passenger that go's out of this Kingdom , as also that comes to this Kingdom , which will bring 6 or 8000 l.

4 d . Upon every 1000 Pins , to be laid upon the Wyre , which will bring 30000 l.

4 l. Sterling upon every Hundred Weight of Cocoa Nuts , the Duty thereof being expir'd , and a Duty upon Coffee and Tea .

I suppose , may be sufficient for the Loss of the Clipt Coyn , and pay the Interest of the same , and be very easy to any Body , and no Charge to the Poor .