item: #1 of 7
          id: A06287
      author: Bookbinders of London.
       title: To the most honorable assembly of the Commons House of Parliament the binders of bookes in London doe most humblie shew ...
        date: 1621
       words: 1274
      flesch: 63
     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. A06287) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 28423)
    keywords: books; characters; commons; early; eebo; encoding; english; foliate; gold; goldbeaters; humblie; image; london; online; oxford; partnership; petitioners; phase; said; tcp; tei; text; xml
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        item: #2 of 7
          id: A28988
      author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
       title: Of a degradation of gold made by an anti-elixir, a strange chymical narative.
        date: 1678
       words: 6905
      flesch: 29
     summary: The Novelty of this Preamble having much surprised the Auditory , at length , Simplicius , with a disdainful Smile , told Pyrophilus , That the Company would have much thanked him , if he could have assured them , That he had seen another Mettal Exalted into Gold ; but , that to find a way of spoiling Gold , was not onely an Useless Discovery , but a Prejudicial Practice . Wherefore , ( concludes he ) I think Pyrophilus ought to be both desired and incouraged to go on with his intended Discourse , since whether Gold be or not be the Best of Metals ; an assurance that it may be degraded , may prove a Novelty very Instructive , and perhaps more so than the Transmutation of a baser Metal into a Nobler .
    keywords: account; anti; arristander; assistant; books; change; characters; chymical; chymists; colour; company; curiosity; degradation; difficult; discourse; early; eebo; elixir; english; experiment; gentlemen; gold; good; gravity; great; heliodorus; hope; like; little; lookt; matter; metal; nature; new; notable; philosophers; piece; powder; proportion; pyrophilus; quantity; rest; saith; self; short; silver; small; specifick; strange; tcp; tei; text; thing; thoughts; times; true; truth; tryal; use; virtuoso; way; weight; work
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        item: #3 of 7
          id: A31635
      author: Chamberlen, Hugh.
       title: Some few considerations, supposed useful, concerning the vote of the House of Commons, Friday the 24, February, upon the bill for the hindring the exportation of gold and silver, and the melting down of the coin of this realm humbly proposed by Dr. Hugh Chamberlain, to the wisdom of the Honourable House of Commons.
        date: 1693
       words: 2023
      flesch: 61
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    keywords: books; characters; coin; commodities; commons; early; eebo; english; foreign; gold; house; hugh; market; mony; natural; plate; price; proportion; silver; tcp; text; tho; trade; value
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        item: #4 of 7
          id: A32353
      author: Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.
       title: A proclamation against exportation, and buying and selling of gold and silver at higher rates then in our mint as also against culling, washing, or otherwise diminishing our current moneys.
        date: 1661
       words: 3107
      flesch: 44
     summary: A PROCLAMATION , Against Exportation , and Buying and Selling of Gold and Silver at higher rates then in Our Mint : As also against Culling , Washing , or otherwise Diminishing Our Current MONEYS CHARLES R. WHereas We are well informed , and do visibly perceive a present scarcity of Moneys throughout the circuit of Our whole Dominions , occasioned by the late illegal and promiscuous buying and selling of all sorts of Gold and Silver at higher rates then ever We or any of Our Royal Progenitors have allowed in Our Mint , which therefore is exported , whereby no Gold or Silver can be brought thither , but to the loss of such as bring the same , which ( 't is probable ) no man will do :
    keywords: books; bullion; buying; chapter; characters; charles; coyn; dominions; early; eebo; england; english; exportation; gold; great; king; laws; mint; money; pain; plate; proclamation; rates; realm; royal; said; second; selling; silver; sixth; statute; subjects; tcp; tei; text; time; uessel; year
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        item: #5 of 7
          id: A33407
      author: Clement, Simon.
       title: A Dialogue between a countrey gentleman and a merchant concerning the falling of guinea's wherein the whole agrument relating to our money is discuss'd.
        date: 1696
       words: 7060
      flesch: 54
     summary: You 'll please to note , Sir , that I had the Caution to say , that it could not rise ( in that sence ) with respect to Forreigners ; and yet I 'll make it as plain to you , that ( excepting a small matter ) silver is not really capable of rising and falling amongst our selves ; for this seeming and nominal Advance upon it was indeed no advance at all , for you must note , that he that bought silver at 7 s. per Ounce , was to pay for 't either in Guinea's at 30 s. ( and in that sort of Payment his Ounce of silver was indeed worth about 7 s. 3 d. ) or in the clipt and counterfeit Money , of which perhaps the true value of what was call'd 7 s. might not be 4 s. but you may assure your self , that none of these Buyers of silver would give a new mill'd Crown and a 6 d. for an ounce of silver , because they know how to throw them into the melting Pot , and bring out above the weight of an ounce ; and this Rule is so certain , that it can never vary more than such a Value , as People will be content to give for silver when they have occasion to transport it , rather than incur the danger of the Law by melting down , or transporting the currant Coin ; and that difference ( when our currant Money was good ) hath rarely been known to be more than 3 d. or 4 d. per Ounce : If you should yet have the least scruple , pray try whether you can by any sort of reasoning perswade your self , that an Ounce of ●nncoyn'd Silver can have more real Value in it than an Ounce of Silver of the same fineness coyn'd into Money , as a late Ingenious Author hath well observed . Gent. But now you 'll readily agree with me , that if the French King should raise the Denomination of his Crown , and cause it to pass among his own People for 4 Livers , we should still esteem it worth no more than 4 s. 6 d. as we did before , because it had nothing added to its former weight of Silver ; so that in reality the true value of Money is only to be reckoned by the weight of the Silver and Gold that it bears , and t is altogether needless for us to trouble our Heads with the nice distinction of extrinsic , intrinsic , and real Value , for it must all be resolv'd into this one Proposition of Weight , every Man's or Nation 's Riches being truly to be measured , according to the more or less weight of Silver which they possess : And that I may give you an infallible Demonstration that silver is only a standard to its self , and as such , is not capable of being rais'd or lower'd with respect to Forreigners :
    keywords: advance; army; bills; books; countrey; crown; denomination; eebo; english; forreigners; gent; gold; good; great; guinea; hath; home; king; little; loss; man; matter; merch; merchant; money; nation; new; occasion; ounce; parliament; pay; people; produce; raising; reason; self; selves; send; silver; sir; tcp; text; trade; true; value; weight
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        item: #6 of 7
          id: A43737
      author: Hierocles, of Alexandria, fl. 430.
       title: Hierocles upon the Golden verses of the Pythagoreans translated immediately out of the Greek into English.
        date: 1682
       words: 40463
      flesch: 65
     summary: Besides , whatever other causes are assign'd for the production of things besides the divine goodness , would rather become the necessities of men than the majesty of God. So will our piety towards God , and the measures of Justice be kept inviolable , if the rational faculty learn to use things necessary well , and to oppose the bounds of Prudence to events seemingly fortuitous and without order .
    keywords: abstain; account; action; adorn'd; advantage; agreeable; anger; apt; author; beginning; beings; best; better; bodies; body; call'd; capable; care; cause; civil; common; conformable; constant; constitution; contemplation; contention; contrary; counsel; courage; creation; cure; death; deed; deliver'd; demons; design; desire; dignity; discipline; discourse; disposed; divine; divine good; divine law; divine vertue; doe; duty; earth; end; endeavour; english; eternal; evil; excellent; exercise; faculties; fall; fate; father; filthy; fit; fortune; free; friendship; god; gods; golden; good; good man; good things; goodness; great; greater; greatest; habit; happy; heathen; heaven; help; heroes; holy; honour; humane; hurt; ignorance; ignorant; ill; illustrious; image; immortal; instrument; intelligent; judge; judgment; justice; kind; knowledge; labours; law; laws; liberty; life; like; likeness; love; lucid; luxury; maker; man; manner; material; matter; mean; measure; meats; men; middle; mind; mortal; natural; nature; nay; necessary; necessity; need; number; oath; obey; observation; occasion; order; parents; passions; perfection; philosophy; piety; place; pleasant; pleasure; possession; possible; power; prayer; precept; present; proceed; profitable; proper; providence; prudence; punishment; pure; purgation; pythagoreans; quaternary; rational; rational nature; reason; respect; reverence; riches; right; right reason; rules; sacred; sake; second; self; selves; sense; set; shew; short; sin; solution; soul; stand; state; sufficient; tcp; text; things; time; true; truth; universe; use; verses; vertue; vertuous; vice; voluntary; way; ways; wickedness; words; work; world; worthy
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        item: #7 of 7
          id: A68648
      author: Reynolds, John, of the Mynt in the Tower.
       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.
        date: 1627
       words: 3841
      flesch: 89
     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.
    keywords: aboue; bee; coyne; currant; eebo; english; euery; exchanges; gold; graines; halfe; majesties; payment; pence; person; piece; proclamation; remedies; said; shillings; tcp; text; vncurrant; vpon; want; weight; worth
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