# bib

id: A64755
author: Vaughan, Henry, 1622-1695.
date: 1696.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1102
sentence: 63
flesch: 68
cache: cache/A64755.xml
txt: txt/A64755.txt
title:
  A discourse of coin and coinage the first invention, use, matter, forms, proportions, and differences, ancient and modern. With the advantages and disadvantages of the rise and fall thereof, in their own or neighbouring nations: and the reasons. Together with a short account of our common-law therein. As also tables of the value of all sorts of pearls, diamonds, gold, silver, and other metals. By Rice Vaughan, late of Grays-Inn, Esq;

summary:
  Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). A64755) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 33699)


id: B03007
author: Edinburgh (Scotland). Town Council.
title: Proclamation anent fourty-penny-pieces. Edinburgh 20. September 1699.
date: 1699.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1165
sentence: 58
flesch: 66
cache: cache/B03007.xml
txt: txt/B03007.txt
summary:
  Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 178771) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2770:10) Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).


id: B05663
author: Scotland. Privy Council.
title: A proclamation for opening the mint
date: 1687.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1228
sentence: 66
flesch: 67
cache: cache/B05663.xml
txt: txt/B05663.txt
summary:
  Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). Royal arms at head of text; initial letter.


id: B05563
author: Scotland. Privy Council.
title: A proclamation discharging English clipt-money.
date: 1695.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1224
sentence: 69
flesch: 67
cache: cache/B05563.xml
txt: txt/B05563.txt
summary:
  (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B05563) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179018) Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).


id: B05556
author: Scotland. Privy Council.
title: A proclamation declaring old un-clipt merk-pieces, and broad un-clipt English money to be currant.
date: 1696.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1208
sentence: 64
flesch: 65
cache: cache/B05556.xml
txt: txt/B05556.txt
summary:
  (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B05556) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179014) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2776:3) Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).


id: B05652
author: Scotland. Privy Council.
date: 1696.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1271
sentence: 67
flesch: 67
cache: cache/B05652.xml
txt: txt/B05652.txt
title:
  Proclamation for crying down the silver Scots crown-piece, and the fourty shilling, twenty shilling, ten shilling, and five shilling Scots pieces to their former rates.

summary:
  Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B05652) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179075)


id: B06624
author: England and Wales. Sovereign (1694-1702 : William III)
date: 1695.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1421
sentence: 51
flesch: 57
cache: cache/B06624.xml
txt: txt/B06624.txt
title:
  By the King, a proclamation. Whereas the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the knights, citizens, and burgesses in Parliament assembled, having taken into their serious consideration, the great mischiefs which this Our Kingdom lies under, by reason that the coin, which passes in payment, is generally clipped; ...

summary:
  (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B06624) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179263) Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).


id: A46546
author: England and Wales. Sovereign (1685-1688 : James II)
title: A proclamation discharging forraign copper-coyn to be imported or made use of in this kingdom
date: 1686.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1333
sentence: 58
flesch: 61
cache: cache/A46546.xml
txt: txt/A46546.txt
summary:
  Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A46546) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 59965)


id: B05572
author: Scotland. Privy Council.
date: 1695.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1346
sentence: 69
flesch: 66
cache: cache/B05572.xml
txt: txt/B05572.txt
title:
  Proclamation discharging the base cooper [sic] money, coyned in Ireland by the late King James, in 1689, and 1690.

summary:
  Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). Royal arms at head of text; initial letter.


id: A46206
author: Essex, Arthur Capel, Earl of, 1631-1683.
date: 1677.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1417
sentence: 70
flesch: 68
cache: cache/A46206.xml
txt: txt/A46206.txt
title:
  Whereas wee are informed, that divers merchants, strangers, & others, have lately brought into this kingdom several peices [sic] of Dutch coyne, commonly known by the name of new lyon dollars, stamped with a lyon rampant on the one side ... by the Lord Lieutenant and Council, Essex.

summary:
  Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A46206) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 104952)


id: A43319
author: T. H.
title: A proposal to make good the coyn of this kingdom without diminishing the species thereof.
date: 1695.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1485
sentence: 54
flesch: 59
cache: cache/A43319.xml
txt: txt/A43319.txt
summary:
  Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 32656)


id: A52732
author: Neale, Thomas, d. 1699?
title: A proposal concerning the coin
date: 1695.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1486
sentence: 55
flesch: 64
cache: cache/A52732.xml
txt: txt/A52732.txt
summary:
  Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A52732) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 32577)


id: A32644
author: Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.
date: 1661.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1649
sentence: 54
flesch: 59
cache: cache/A32644.xml
txt: txt/A32644.txt
title:
  By the King, a proclamation that the moneys lately called in, may nevertheless be currant in all payments to, or for the use of, His Majesty until the first day of May next

summary:
  But nevertheless , that it shall and may be lawful , to , and for any person or persons whatsoever , which at any time or times before the First day of May now next coming , shall pay or deliver any Sum or Sums of Money , to , or for the use of Vs , Our Heirs and Successors , for , or in respect of the free and voluntary Present , or any Rent , Custom , Excise , Tax , or any other Duties whatsoever , to pay , send , or deliver , or cause to be paid , sent , or delivered the same , or so much thereof , as they shall think fit , in the said Moneys so Coyned and Stamped as aforesaid , into any of Our Publick Receipts , where the same shall be received as any other Moneys that are currant within this Our Realm , may or ought to be received or taken ; and that from and after the said First day of May now next coming , the same shall not be currant , nor be any ways paid or payable to Vs , Our Heirs or Successors , or to any other person or persons whatsoever . We taking the Premisses into Our serious consideration , and choosing rather to take the loss and prejudice upon Our Self , which shall happen by reason of the said Moneys so Coyned and stamped as aforesaid , then that any of Our Loving Subjects should be prejudiced or losers thereby ; and to the end the same may remain within Our Kingdom , and not be transported to Foreign parts , have thought fit to publish and declare , and hereby ( by and with the Advice of Our Privy Council ) do publish and declare , That no part of the said Moneys so Coyned and Stampt as aforesaid , shall continue currant , or be paid , or payable to , or betweén all or any of Our Subjects .


id: A46637
author: James, William, fl. 1689-1695.
date: 1696.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1729
sentence: 68
flesch: 67
cache: cache/A46637.xml
txt: txt/A46637.txt
title:
  An explanation of the proposal lately given in to the Honourable House of Commons, signed William James. It is humbly proposed that guineas, and all other gold coins now currant, be brought into the Exchequer ...

summary:
  Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A46637) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 32636)


id: B05554
author: Scotland. Privy Council.
date: 1696.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1694
sentence: 65
flesch: 61
cache: cache/B05554.xml
txt: txt/B05554.txt
title:
  Proclamation crying down the English milned crowns and half-crowns ordaining the old-merk and half-merk-pieces to pass, and stopping the taking of bullion, at the mint-house.

summary:
  Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B05554) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179013)


id: A32536
author: Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.
date: 1661.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1838
sentence: 67
flesch: 62
cache: cache/A32536.xml
txt: txt/A32536.txt
title:
  A proclamation for the calling in all moneys of gold and silver coyned or stamped with the cross and harp, and the circumscription, the commonwealth of England, and for making the same to be current onely to the first of December next, and no longer

summary:
  Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). And that Our Subjects may not continue long under the daily hazard of receiving false and adulterate Moneys , which are more frequently and usually to be found in the Coyns of the Stamps and Impressions aforesaid ; We do further publish and declare Our Royal Will and Pleasure , That from and after the last day of November , now next ensuing , no Moneys whatsoever , either of Gold or Silver , having the Stamps and Impressions aforesaid , shall at any time be received , allowed , or taken as currant Money , nor shall the same be used in any Receipts or Payments whatsoever , but shall from thenceforth cease to be lawful Money of England , to all intents and purposes whatsoever .


id: A52728
author: Neale, Thomas, d. 1699?
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 2200
sentence: 86
flesch: 70
cache: cache/A52728.xml
txt: txt/A52728.txt
title:
  The best way of disposing of hammer'd money and plate as well for the advantage of the owners thereof, as for raising one million of money, in (and for the service of) the year 1697. By way of a lottery.

summary:
  Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). EEBO-TCP is a partnership between the Universities of Michigan and Oxford and the publisher ProQuest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by ProQuest via their Early English Books Online (EEBO) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com).


id: A64303
author: Temple, Richard, Sir, 1634-1697.
date: 1696.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 2527
sentence: 70
flesch: 54
cache: cache/A64303.xml
txt: txt/A64303.txt
title:
  Some short remarks upon Mr. Lock's book in answer to Mr. Lounds, and several other books and pamphlets concerning coin. By Sir Richard Temple, knight of the bath, and baronet.

summary:
  I offer to consideration , That nothing is more evident , than that such a Change can have no such effect or consequence upon any thing at Home , but only Exchange and Commerce Abroad ; for proof whereof , I shall appeal to the Historical part of Mr. Lounds his Book , as to the frequent alteration of the Standard in Weight , Fineness , and Denomination here , which is yet much more practised in other Neighbouring Nations , as I could easily demonstrate , the Standard of whose Coin is much below ours , and who have also grert quantities of Coin of base Alloy currant among them , which they have never thought fit to change , even in the times of the greatest Wealth or Plenty among them , for the ease of Commerce at Home , and augmenting the species of Mony. Mony.


id: A26698
author: Neale, Thomas, d. 1699?
title: About mending the coyn.
date: 1695.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 3241
sentence: 72
flesch: 53
cache: cache/A26698.xml
txt: txt/A26698.txt
summary:
  2. That a Million of Money ( which also may this way be easily raised ) in Clipt Half Crowns , be sunk by a Lottery , which 't is believed will take them all up ; and if that it be Enacted , That such shall be taken for Tickets , and that no person shall be obliged to take any Clipt Half Crowns ( any otherwise than by Weight ) after Three Months , they all will come tumbling in , and the Owners of them will be pleased , having a Courtesie done them . Supposing such Allowance in the Lottery given , that every Adventurer shall be no Looser by it , which 40 s. yearly for each 10 l. paid in for each Ticket will do , and so few Prizes over ( and without any Rebate ) will encourage its filing ; That whereas 40000 l. yearly , ( besides a Rebate ) for a Sixteen years Term , worth 300000 l. to bring in the Money was allowed as a Gift in the last , a bare 50000 l. in Money , put into a 1000 Fifty pound Prizes , will be sufficient to do it in this , and a Fund may be easie found for it .


id: A83303
author: England and Wales.
date: 1647.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 856
sentence: 52
flesch: 72
cache: cache/A83303.xml
txt: txt/A83303.txt
title:
  Die Lunæ 6 Septemb. 1647. An ordinance or the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, that from henceforth no moneys clipt, filed, or deminished, shall be payable, or received in payment within this kingdom.

summary:
  This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A83303 of text R221657 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.11[75]). An ordinance or the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, that from henceforth no moneys clipt, filed, or deminished, shall be payable, or received in payment within this kingdom. England and Wales.


id: A49332
author: Lowndes, William, 1652-1724.
date: 1695.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 3861
sentence: 116
flesch: 58
cache: cache/A49332.xml
txt: txt/A49332.txt
title:
  A further essay for the amendment of the gold and silver coins. With the opinion of Mr. Gerrard de Malynes, who was an eminent merchant in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, concerning the standard of England.

summary:
  Money -- Early works to 1800. Some Gentlemen who has made it their business for some Years last past , to melt down all the mill'd and broad Moneys , will tell you , That altering the Standard will lessen the Reputation of our Trade abroad , as tho' all the Foreign Trade depended upon the exchange of Money .


id: A57517
author: Roe, Thomas, Sir, 1581?-1644.
date: 1641.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 3620
sentence: 98
flesch: 59
cache: cache/A57517.xml
txt: txt/A57517.txt
title:
  Sir Thomas Rowe his speech at the councell-table touching brasse-money, or against brasse-money, with many notable observations thereupon, Iuly, 1640.

summary:
  MY Lords , since it hath pleased this Honorable table , to command amongst others my poore opinion concerning this waighty proposition of money , I must humbly crave pardon , if with that freedome that becometh my duty to my good and gracious Master , and my obedience to your great commands , I deliver it so . They cannot saith Bodin , alter the price of moneys to the preiudice of the subiect , without incurring the reproach of Faux moneyars .


id: A57520
author: Roe, Thomas, Sir, 1581?-1644.
date: 1641.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 3818
sentence: 85
flesch: 51
cache: cache/A57520.xml
txt: txt/A57520.txt
title:
  Sir Thomas Roe his speech in Parliament wherein he sheweth the cause of the decay of coyne and trade in this land, especially of merchants trade, and also propoundeth a vvay to the House, how they may be increased.

summary:
  Therefore we must seeke another rule that is more sensible , upon which we may all judge , and that may be by the plenty orscarcity of money ; for it is a true rule , if money increase , the Kingdome doth gaine by Trade ; if it be scarce , it loseth . WHEREIN He sheweth the cause of the decay of Coyne and Trade in this Land , especially of Merchants Trade .


id: B05300
author: Scotland. Privy Council.
title: Act anent the half ducatdouns and old Scots merk-pieces. July 25. 1695.
date: 1695.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1141
sentence: 60
flesch: 67
cache: cache/B05300.xml
txt: txt/B05300.txt
summary:
  Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B05300) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 178917)


id: A92662
author: Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.
title: A proclamation anent the mint, and declaring Spanish ryals current, at fifty six shilling Scots
date: 1683.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1222
sentence: 59
flesch: 63
cache: cache/A92662.xml
txt: txt/A92662.txt
summary:
  Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).


id: A39784
author: Fletcher, Andrew, 1655-1716.
date: 1700.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 4096
sentence: 134
flesch: 63
cache: cache/A39784.xml
txt: txt/A39784.txt
title:
  Overtures offered to the Parliament in which this proposition is advanced that a small summ imposed on the nation, for reforming our standard, and for repairing the losses of the African and Indian Company, &c. bestowed in the method propos'd, will be of ten times more value to the nation in general, &c. to almost the whole individual persons in the kingdom, than the samen [sic] summ will be, if retained in each particulars hand.

summary:
  So we give our Goods for 8 ⅓ less than we are aware of ; and when we Buy , we loose 8 ⅓ of what Money we pay in English Coyne . If Money be raised only to invite Merchands to buy greater Quantities of our Goods , we have an easier Medium for that End : viz.


id: A82486
author: England and Wales. Parliament.
title: An Act touching the moneys and coyns of England.
date: 1649.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 991
sentence: 51
flesch: 75
cache: cache/A82486.xml
txt: txt/A82486.txt
summary:
  This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A82486 of text R211240 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.14[58]). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A82486) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163046)


id: A58723
author: Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.
title: A proclamation concerning the coyn
date: 1681.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1614
sentence: 64
flesch: 62
cache: cache/A58723.xml
txt: txt/A58723.txt
summary:
  Forasmuch as by Our Royal Prerogative , We have power to establish , or alter the matter of Coyn , either Native or Forraign within Our Dominions , from time to time , as We shall find fit for the good of Our Subjects ; and Our Royal Ancestors having been in constant use to raise and exalt the extrinsick value of the Coyn of this Kingdom , according as the Neighbouring Kingdoms and States have done their Standarts ; and in some measure , to bear such a proportion with Our Neighbours , as that the Coyn of this Kingdom might not be exported : And whereas the value of the ounce of Coyned Silver hath been raised from time to time , as particularly in the year 1591. And some of the most considerable of the Merchants of this Our Kingdom , having made their application to Our Privy Council , and proposed as a fit expedient , that Our four Merk peices might be appointed to be current proportionally to the intrinsick value thereof , and the best of the forraign Current Coyn ; who having had the same ūnder serious consideration , and having received from the Officers of Our Mint , an exact account of the intrinsick value thereof , and of all other forraign species of Coyn , tollerated to be current ; and finding , that at the rate of the ounce of Silver now Current in other Countreys , it is fit that Our Coyn be in some proportion with theirs in the extrinsick value .


id: A68648
author: Reynolds, John, of the Mynt in the Tower.
date: 1627.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 3841
sentence: 356
flesch: 89
cache: cache/A68648.xml
txt: txt/A68648.txt
title:
  An aduice Touching the currancie in payment of our English gold. ; As also, a table of the seuerall worths of all pieces vncurrant through want of weight, at His Majesties exchanges at London. Calculated according to the number of graines wanting. Most necessarie for all. That the true value of the vncurrant coyne may bee knowne.

summary:
  Graines — 18. 3. 0. 23. graines — 18. 6. Graines — Is worth at his Majesties Exchanges 15. 4. 0. 7. Graines — 15. 2. 1. 8. graines — 15. 0.


id: B05565
author: Scotland. Privy Council.
title: A proclamation discharging forraign copper or brass-coyn.
date: 1697.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1250
sentence: 66
flesch: 64
cache: cache/B05565.xml
txt: txt/B05565.txt
summary:
  Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179019) Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).


id: B05559
author: Scotland. Privy Council.
date: 1697.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1465
sentence: 65
flesch: 61
cache: cache/B05559.xml
txt: txt/B05559.txt
title:
  Proclamation discharging all English unmilln'd-money to pass, except by weight, and allowing and crying-up the English milln'd crown to three pound five shilling, with it's fractions proportionally.

summary:
  Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B05559) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179016)


id: B05646
author: Scotland. Privy Council.
date: 1697.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1467
sentence: 65
flesch: 64
cache: cache/B05646.xml
txt: txt/B05646.txt
title:
  Proclamation for calling down the French three-sous-pieces to three shillings Scots, and appointing the Scots fourtie-pennie-pieces to pass at three shilling six pennies Scots per piece.

summary:
  (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B05646) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179073) Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).


id: A44740
author: G. H.
title: A letter to a member of Parliament for settling guineas
date: 1696.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1365
sentence: 68
flesch: 72
cache: cache/A44740.xml
txt: txt/A44740.txt
summary:
  Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 108756) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1672:2)


id: A27258
author: R. B.
date: 1696.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1740
sentence: 58
flesch: 61
cache: cache/A27258.xml
txt: txt/A27258.txt
title:
  Proposals humbly offered to the honourable house of commons first, for a way, or method, to procure bullion. Secondly, that His Majesty, and subject, will be gainers thereby. Thirdly, that it will highly tend to the good of trade, and commerce in general, during the time the moneys shall be re-coining. Which are as follows, (viz)

summary:
  Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). THE Government , by way of Encouragement , allowing Ten Pounds Interest , for Eighteen Months , for One Hundred Pounds value of Plate , to be brought in to be Coined ; and so in proportion for a greater , or lesser Sum ; and His Majesty to have the use of the Money , as the same shall be Coined ; which may ( in a great measure ) be compleated in Six Months , and will bring a speedy Supply , by making daily Payments , so soon as the said Money shall be Coined ; which Money will Circulate amongst the Subject , and , at the same time , answer His Majesty's present Occasions .


id: A70626
author: Ballard, Daniel.
date: 1700.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1964
sentence: 85
flesch: 70
cache: cache/A70626.xml
txt: txt/A70626.txt
title:
  To the Honourable the Commons of England in Parliament assembled is humbly represented to you a short view, or abstract of several letters, which I happened to look o'er, some time since, which letters were sent from John Dutton Colt Esq., late collector of His Majesty's customs of this part of Bristol, directed to Daniel Ballard his clerk, then manager of that revenue in his absence.

summary:
  To the Honourable the Commons of England in Parliament assembled is humbly represented to you a short view, or abstract of several letters, which I happened to look o'er, some time since, which letters were sent from John Dutton Colt Esq., late collector of His Majesty's customs of this part of Bristol, directed to Daniel Ballard his clerk, then manager of that revenue in his absence. 1700 Approx. Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 900:13 or 1725:52) To the Honourable the Commons of England in Parliament assembled is humbly represented to you a short view, or abstract of several letters, which I happened to look o'er, some time since, which letters were sent from John Dutton Colt Esq., late collector of His Majesty's customs of this part of Bristol, directed to Daniel Ballard his clerk, then manager of that revenue in his absence.


id: A31622
author: Chamberlen, Hugh.
title: A fund for supplying and preserving our coin, or, An essay on the project of new-coining our silver
date: 1696.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 5745
sentence: 167
flesch: 65
cache: cache/A31622.xml
txt: txt/A31622.txt
summary:
  Whereas keep but Forreigners Stocks here , which are come over in Guineas , and you may have Money enough . Nor is this all the fatality attends us , from their carrying back their Estates in Coin , who brought it in Guineas ; but it will also stop their laying out their Stocks , ( they have here ) in English Produce and Manufactures , which they have begun to buy , and will go on to do , if we don't inconsiderately furnish them another way to carry off their Estates .


id: A60850
author: Lowndes, William, 1652-1724.
date: 1695.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 6433
sentence: 116
flesch: 40
cache: cache/A60850.xml
txt: txt/A60850.txt
title:
  Some remarks on a report containing an essay for the amendment of the silver coins made to the right honourable the Lords Commissioners of His Majesties treasury / by Mr. William Lowndes ...

summary:
  Indeed taking it for granted , that either would raise the Value of the Silver in the Coins , the manner the Author proposes might do , tho' it seems to me that the lessening the pieces one fifth part would be more natural and easie in accounts , and better corespond with the present kinds of Money commonly used : But because I cannot grant it , I come to examine the Author's Reasons for such an Alteration of the Denomination of our Coin : And the first is , Because the Price of Silver is risen , and that whensoever the extrinsick value of Silver in the Coin hath been or shall be less than the price of Silver in Bullion , the Coin hath been and will be melted down . And to return ; you may now have the same quantity of Bullion for a five shilling piece unclipt , as you shall have hereafter for the same quantity of Silver in Coin , tho' you call it 6 s. 3 d. or 10 s. or by any other denomination ; and an Ounce of Bullion is not now worth 6 s. 5 d. good weighty standard Money , but it is worth so much of the clipt bad Money which now goes about ; which bad Money , as I have said , is really fallen in its value , and not Money of full weight or Bullion risen , and those that shall melt down Money now , cannot I think properly be said to get fourteen pence half-penny an Ounce by it , because the good unclipt Money does only retain its former value , and the clipt and bad Money is less worth than it was by at least 30 per Cent. and the case being so , it cannot be supposed that any will pay good Money , for the difference is not only by melting the Money into Bullion , but by other Commutations , or Exchanges ; you shall buy as much Cloath , Wool , or any thing else now for 5 s. of silver , Coin that is weighty , as you may for 6 s. 3 d. and more of the money that now goes currant , and if there is little profit made now by melting down Money , the difference can be but little when the Crown piece shall have a higher denomination .


id: A48893
author: Locke, John, 1632-1704.
date: 1695.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 6485
sentence: 172
flesch: 63
cache: cache/A48893.xml
txt: txt/A48893.txt
title:
  Short observations on a printed paper, intituled, For encouraging the coining silver money in England, and after for keeping it here

summary:
  This is certain , no body will pay away Mill'd or weighty Money for Debts or Commodities , when it wi●● yield him 4 or 5 per Cent. more ; so that which is now left of weighty Money being scatter'd up and down the Kingdom into private hands , which cann●● tell how to melt it down , will be kep● up and lost to our Trade . Nor will the propos'd raising of our Money , as 't is call'd , whether we Coin our Money for the ●…uture 1 / 30 , or 1 / 20 , or ½ lighter than now 〈◊〉 is , bring one Ounce more to the Mint ●…an now , whil'st our Affairs in this respect remain in the same posture . And challenge the Author to shew that it ●…ill , for saying is but saying ; Bullion ●…an never come to the Mint to be Coin'd , whil'st the over-balance of Trade ●…nd Foreign Expences are so great , that 〈◊〉 satisfy them , not only the Bullion ●…our Trade in some parts now yearly ●…ings in , but also some of your former●… Coin'd Money is requisite , and must be sent out ; but when a change in th●… brings in and lodges Bullion here , ( fo●… now it seems it only passes throug●… England ) the increase of Silver and Gold staying in England , will again bring it t●… the Mint to be Coin'd .


id: A39901
author: Ford, R., fl. 1696.
date: 1696.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 7835
sentence: 182
flesch: 50
cache: cache/A39901.xml
txt: txt/A39901.txt
title:
  A further attempt towards the reformation of the coin with expedients for preventing the stop of commerce during the re-coinage, and supplying the mint with a sufficient quantity of bullion ... / by R. Ford.

summary:
  Now if I can but prove , that such an Excessive Want and Scarcity of Money will be the certain and fatal Consequence of fixing so low a Rate on Silver . Now that the low Valuation of Silver would cause so great a Scarcity of Money , as would in a great measure produce such fatal Effects , may I conceive be evinced from the ensuing Considerations .


id: A69599
author: Bohun, Edmund, 1645-1699.
date: 1696.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 5710
sentence: 143
flesch: 61
cache: cache/A69599.xml
txt: txt/A69599.txt
title:
  The proposal for the raising of the silver coin of England, from 60 pence in the ounce to 75 pence, considered; vvith the consequences thereof.

summary:
  That Land in my own Estate that was Rented at 1 s. per Ann. in the Reign of Edward IV. hath for many Years last past been Rented at 20 s. And this is another Effect of the Encrease of Mony in England since the Discovery of the West-Indies , which happened after the times of that Prince . Tho' there are many Things alledged as causes of this rise of the Bullion at this time , as the scarcity of Mony and Bullion , the over-ballance of our Trade , the Exchange running high against us abroad , &c.


id: A39736
author: Fleetwood, William, 1656-1723.
date: 1694.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 8278
sentence: 279
flesch: 64
cache: cache/A39736.xml
txt: txt/A39736.txt
title:
  A sermon against clipping, preach'd before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and court of aldermen, at Guild-Hall Chappel, on Decemb. 16. 1694 by W. Fleetwood.

summary:
  ' it be short , will yet be hard and grievous to mean People , and such as live by the Day , who will not know how to find themselves and Families with Necessaries for some space of time , till Money get into its old Current . First , The Use and Necessity of Money to the carrying on the Trade and Commerce of the World.


id: A35196
author: Cary, John, d. 1720?
title: An essay on the coyn and credit of England as they stand with respect to its trade by John Cary.
date: 1696.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 9340
sentence: 108
flesch: 10
cache: cache/A35196.xml
txt: txt/A35196.txt
summary:
  As to the first , we must consider that Silver is not a Commodity of the growth of this Land , nor of the Plantations belonging to it , but of a Neighbouring Nation , from whom we purchase it for our Product and Manufacturers , and according to the price we make of them Abroad , so much more Silver do we bring home for them ; now seeing Silver could not be advanced to Six Shillings per Ounce otherwise then by standing so in Competition with all Commodities both in Buying and Selling , the Consequence of such an Advance had been this , that our Manufactures would have been sold for so much less Silver in Forreign Markets , as the Price of Silver was advanced at Home ; thus the piece of Bays , which formerly yielded Twenty Ounces of Silver , being Five Pounds whilst Silver stood at Five Shillings per Ounce , would then have been Sold for Sixteen Ounces and two Thirds , which , at Six Shillings per Ounce , is the same Sum ▪ and the Exporter would have gained as much by his Trade , because that quantity of Silver would have stood in the same Competition with any Commodities he was to purchase here for a New Adventure , as Twenty Ounces formerly did ; but on the other side , not one Ounce less would have been carryed Abroad then now there is , which must have been so much the greater Grievance to the Nation , as our Imports thereof had been lessened ; here we are to Consider , what it is that causes the exporting , of our Silver , and upon a due Consideration we shall find , that as nothing but the Ballance of our Trade brings it in , so nothing but the Ballance of our Trade with particular places carryes it out , neither of them proceeding from the choice of the Merchant , who desires rather to Trade in any other Merchandize , Silver neither answering Freights nor Insurances ; and therefore it is that our Merchants bring home from Spain , all the Wines , Fruit , Wooll , Iron , Cochineal , they can get , and whatever else is fit to Load their Ships , before they meddle with Money ; But the Ballance of our Trade with Spain being so much in our Favour , that all the Product thereof cannot make it good , we are oblig'd to bring home the rest in Bullion ; on the other Side , there are some places that necessarily require Silver to be exported , but let no Man think that the Denomination of Money will give it the greater value in those Countreys , the Silver we send thither being valuable only by its Weight and Fineness ; As for our Trade with Holland , That often varies in its Ballance , some Years it may be for us , and other Years against us , as Accidents happen , though I am of Opinion it hath generally been in our Favour ; This is certain , that if we run in Debt more then we can pay by our Product and Manufactures , the rest must be paid in Silver , and the Receiver will take it at his own Price , whatever value we may put on it here ; 't is true , Exchange is a Medium where the Ballance is variable , and that likewise must rise upon us according to the Advance we make on our Money ; but where the Ballance is set against us , there Exchange cannot keep our Silver at home , because That also must be provided for by Shipping it out . And as the Ballance of Trade between us and Spain is in our Favour , and thereby furnishes us with Silver , so I am of Opinion , that the Ballance of the General Trade we drive in Europe is likewise in our Favour , otherwise 't would be impossible to keep that Silver at home which we bring from Spain , since we receive from abroad so great a supply of the Commodities we use , which would necessarily draw it away , were they not the purchase of our Product and Manufactures ; therefore it appears to me , that seeing our Silver increases , the Ballance of our General Trade increases likewise in our favour ; whoever will but consider the great Consumption of Plate in England , by its being wrought up into Utenfils for private Families , and the great quantities wherewith the Houses of our Nobility and Gentry do abound , even in those common Masly things , which our Fore-fathers made of Iron , Tin , Brass , and Wood , may rather wonder , how our Trade supplies so much Silver , then that it brings home no more ; hence comes our want of it for the Mint ; and till the People of England grow so wise , as to set the same delight on seeing an Hundred Ounces of Silver in their Houses in the Coyn of the Nation , as they now do in Plate wrought up , we shall be ever complaining for want of Money ; though were this done , and all the Plate of England Coyned up , I am still of Opinion , that there would not be sufficient to carry on our Trade without a Credit .


id: A25994
author: Asgill, John, 1659-1738.
title: Several assertations proved in order to create another species of money than gold and silver
date: 1696.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 11800
sentence: 288
flesch: 52
cache: cache/A25994.xml
txt: txt/A25994.txt
summary:
  The past Contracts now depending in the Kingdom for payment of Moneys in Specie do far surmount all the Species of Money in the Kingdom ; and because Money is become more valuable than Bills of Credit , therefore they that have the demands of it do and will demand it ; and the more they demand it , the higher the price rises , And this is as necessary for making it money as any of the other qualities : For were the Titles of Land transferred to the Titles of Money , it would cease to be Money , notwithstanding all its other qualities ; were it necessary to have a Lease and Release , Feofment or Bargain and Sale , and ( if it came by the Wife ) a Fine , to the Transferre of every peice of money , the Charge and Trouble of this would soon reduce our Nobles to Nine-pences .


id: A52733
author: Neale, Thomas, d. 1699?
date: 1696.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 10791
sentence: 362
flesch: 72
cache: cache/A52733.xml
txt: txt/A52733.txt
title:
  A proposal for amending the silver coins of England, and the possibility of it, without any great charge to the nation. Demonstrated in two different ways.

summary:
  I have considered this Matter these Three Years since , and though what I propose be directly against my own private Interest ; I think , it is an absolute Necessity for the Honour and general Interest of the Nation to melt down our old Clipt Mony , and make new Coin of the same Standard , Weight and Price as the former ; and when that is done , and our Trade and Navigation secured , I question not to see England the happiest Country in the World , which is my Hearts desire . But ▪ after the 25th of March 1698 , and thenceforth all such Bullion , and also the Pieces of Eight , Mexico and Sevil , shall pass in Current Payment for above Ten Pounds by the Ounce , and not by Piece , after the Rate of Five Shillings an Ounce , and the Bullion Marked better or worse than Standard , for more or less value than the said 5 s. And whereas there is already in the Kingdom abundance of Gold and Silver , which is neither Marked nor Assayed at the Tower , it shall be Lawful to the Owner thereof to Export it , carrying it first to the Mint to be Assayed and Registred there ; but after the 25th of March 1696 , all the Bullion in the Kingdom not Marked shall be Lawfully seized as Coin of England Melted .


id: A43702
author: E. H.
date: 1696.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 14554
sentence: 330
flesch: 55
cache: cache/A43702.xml
txt: txt/A43702.txt
title:
  Decus & tutamen, or, Our new money as now coined in full weight and fineness proved to be for the honour, safety and advantage of England, written by way of answer to Sir Richard Temple and Dr. Barbon ; to which is added an essay to preserve our new money from being hoarded, melted down, transported or counterfeited.

summary:
  But it may be said , That this Landlord or Money'd Man , must be suppos'd to have Money by him when this change of Coin happens , which will be ⅕ more , as if he had 1500 l. of the Old Money , it would be 1800 l. of the New , which is 300 l. gain to him . 3. All Creditors whose Debts were contracted before the rise of Coin , and not paid till afterward , must lose , because the Debt was contracted before the rise of things , and according to the value of Money then ; but now Money is raised and Commodities likewise , this ( when paid the Creditor in the New Money ) will not purchase so much by ⅕ as if it had been paid him before this Revolution of Coin ; besides , had the Debt been in the Creditors hands before the alteration of Coin , it would of it self encreased ⅕ , which he also loseth .


id: A49333
author: Lowndes, William, 1652-1724.
title: A report containing an essay for the amendment of the silver coins
date: 1695.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 27149
sentence: 549
flesch: 46
cache: cache/A49333.xml
txt: txt/A49333.txt
summary:
  First , It is believed by some Authors , ( and not without Reason ) that in the most Ancient times , when Money was first Coined within this Island , it was made of * Pure Gold and Silver , like the Moneys now Currant in some other Nations , particularly in Hungary and Barbary , where they have Pieces of Gold called Ducats and Sultanesses ; and in the Kingdom of Industan , where they have Pieces of Silver called Rupees , which I have seen , and wherein ( as I am inform'd ) there is little or no Allay : And that afterwards it being found convenient in the Fabrication of the Moneys , to have a certain Quantity or Proportion of Baser Metal to be mixt with the Pure Gold and Silver , the Word Sterling was introduced , and hath ever since been used , to denote the certain Proportion or Degree of Fineness , which ought to be retained in the respective Coins composed of such mixture , as aforesaid . And it is freely submitted to Impartial Judgments , whether the propos'd Advance of Silver in the Coins can infer a Real Loss upon any Persons , other than such as can propose to themselves particularly the Receipt of Moneys in Weighty or Unclipt Pieces only , and the Conversion thereof to an Advantage , which Law or Reason would not allow them .


id: A48882
author: Locke, John, 1632-1704.
date: 1695.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 29141
sentence: 836
flesch: 64
cache: cache/A48882.xml
txt: txt/A48882.txt
title:
  Further considerations concerning raising the value of money wherein Mr. Lowndes's arguments for it in his late Report concerning an essay for the amendment of the silver coins, are particularly examined.

summary:
  The Coining of Silver , or making Money of it , is the ascertaining of its quantity by a publick mark , the better to fit it for Commerce . Since Silver is the thing sought , and would better serve for the measure of Commerce if it were unmixt , it will possibly be asked why any mixture of baser Metal is allowed in Money , and what use there is of such Allay , which serves to make the quantity of Silver less known in the several Coins of different Countries ? Perhaps it would have been better for Commerce in general , and more convenient for all their Subjects , if the Princes every where , or at least in this part of the World , would at first have agreed on the fineness of the Standard to have been just 1 / 12 Allay , in round numbers ; without those minuter Fractions which are to be found in the Allay of most of the Coin in the several distinct Dominions of this part of the World : Which broken proportion of baser Metal to Silver , in the Standard of the several Mints , seems to have been introduced by the Skill of Men imploy'd in Coining , to keep that Art ( as all Trades are call'd ) a Mystery ; rather than for any use or necessity there was of such broken numbers .


