Section IV Exporting Bullion, except it be stamped at Goldsmiths' Hall;
and unless Certificate by Wardens of Oath that it is lawful Silver; such Certificate granted without Fee; Offering molten Silver to be marked and not proving on Oath that it is lawful Silver, Wardens may seize and detain such Silver, till Oath and Proof made.
And bee it further enacted That noe Goldsmith or other person whatsoever shall from and after the said First day of May transport or cause to bee transported out of this Kingdome of England into any parts beyound X1 seas any molten silver whatsoever but such onely as shall bee marked or stamped att Goldsmiths Hall by the Wardens some or one of them belonging to the said Company of Goldsmiths which mark or stamp the said Wardens are hereby required to provide and therewith to mark or stamp all such silver as shall bee proved before them or one of them in such manner as is hereafter mentioned to bee lawfull silver nor unlesse a certificate bee first had and obtained under the hand of one or more of the said Wardens of oath having been made before him or them by the Owner or Owners of such molten silver and likewise by one credible witnesse that the same is lawfull silver and that noe part thereof was (before the same was molten) the Currant Coin of this X2Kingdome nor clippings thereof nor plate wrought within this Kingdome Which Oath the said Wardens or any one of them are and is hereby required and authorized to administer and likewise to make and grant a certificate thereof without fee or reward an entry of which certificate shall bee duely made by the said Wardens in a book to bee kept for that purpose And in case any person whatsoever who shall offer any molten silver to bee marked as is aforesaid shall not prove by his or her oath and likewise by the oath of one credible witnesse that the silver offered to bee marked is lawfull silver and that the same was not before the melting thereof the Currant Coin of this Kingdome nor clippings thereof nor plate wrought within the same then and in every such case it shall bee lawfull to and for the said Wardens or any one of them to seize and detain such molten silver soe offered to bee marked until such time as such oath and proof shall bee made as is aforesaid.
Annotations
Editorial notes
- X1
Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: the O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]
- X2
Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: Realm O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]