Annals of the Coinage of Britain and Its Dependencies: From the Earliest Period of Authentick History to the End of the Fiftieth Year of the Reign of His Present Majesty King George III
Annals of the Coinage of Britain and Its Dependencies: From the Earliest Period of Authentick History to the End of the Fiftieth Year of the Reign of His Present Majesty King George III
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1817 Excerpt: ...the latter. And as to the words stated to have been spoken by him, he denied them, as either never having been spoken by him, or not with the intention imputed to them. State Trials, vol. I. p: 735. p Rushworth's Hist. Collections, part 111. vol. I. p. 280. Accordingly a Bill was read in the Commons, upon the ninth of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1817 Excerpt: ...the latter. And as to the words stated to have been spoken by him, he denied them, as either never having been spoken by him, or not with the intention imputed to them. State Trials, vol. I. p: 735. p Rushworth's Hist. Collections, part 111. vol. I. p. 280. Accordingly a Bill was read in the Commons, upon the ninth of that month, for the melting a quantity of Plate to be turned into Coin. It provided that every one who had twenty Pounds worth of Plate, should send half of it to be coined, and in the mean time to have security and interest for the forbearance. Such as lived within ten miles of London were to send their Plate within four days; within twenty miles in fourteen days; and those who lived within sixty miles within twenty days. After some debate it was referred to a Committee, and the Warden of the Mint, and other officers, with the Company of Goldsmiths, were ordered to attend that Committee on the Friday following r. On the gth of July the Committee to which the business concerning the transportation of Gold had been referred, was ordered to make a report. But it should seem that neither that, nor the Bill for bringing in of Plate, was proceeded with any further, and their failure was probably occasioned by the jealousy which the Parliament entertained of the King, and the disputes (which at last terminated so fatally) having at this time arisen to a considerable height. The Scotch, who in the year 1639 demanded that the Coin should not be meddled with without the consent of Parliament, and were answered that the Coinage was the King's peculiar prerogative, were either not satisfied or else concluded that the peculiar situation in which the King was at this time placed would oblige him to comply with their request; and therefore, on the 1st of Ap...
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