Catalogue Entry: MINT01535
To the Honourable, the knights, citizens, and burgesses, in Parliament assembled proposals humbly offered, for passing an act to prevent clipping and counterfeiting of mony [sic]
[1] The Minters have been a great cause of Clipping and false Coyning.
[2] The Value of the old Mony
[3] What value the Mony should be when Recoyn'd.
[4] How the Mony shall be called in.
[5] How the Mint stall have a stock.
[6] The mony Recoyned with very little trouble or charge.
[7] When the mony shall be Coyned the Intrinsick worth.
[8] The Kingdom will lose greatly by any other method but this.
[9] The Mony may be called in afterwards with little trouble.
[10] This method no dishonour to England.
[11] Mony so Coyn'd will be no hindrance to Trade
[12] The Minters cannot Coyn more then allowed by Law.
[13] They cannot Counterfeit our Mony beyond Sea.
[14] Impossible for a private Person to Counterfeit Mony.
[15] Examples to prove that mony cannot be Counterfeited.
[16] The standard of our mony.
[17] The Price of Bullion.
[18] Silver sometimes dear.
[19] Merchants get great profit by Coyning.
[20] The Kingdom much abused by Coyning.
[21] Our Coyn is melted down to make Plate of.
[22] The different prices of Bullion is grievous.
[23] The King should have the profit of Coyning.
[24] The Coyn should be of a new standard.
[25] How Coyning is done.
[26] None shall keep Tools that are used in Coyning.
[27] Very little trouble or charge to the subject.
[28] To prevent Goldsmiths. &c.
[29] To prevent smiths.
[30] To prevent Thieves. Clippers and Coyners selling melted Silver.
[31] To prevent Transporting of Bullion.
[32] Precedents for this method.
[33] Orders of the Masters of the Mint.