{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plate-assay-act-1700/section-VIII",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plate-assay-act-1700/section-VIII.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Will3/12-13/4",
  "legislation_title": "Plate Assay Act 1700",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plate-assay-act-1700",
  "path": "section/VIII",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "VIII",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Goldsmith, &c. to fix his own Mark on Plate, Exception, and then send it to be assayed, &c.; If Standard, Assayers to mark the same; Fee.; Goldsmith, &c. working Plate, &c. of improper Fineness, or selling before marked,; Exception.; Penalty,\nAnd whereas it is not the Intent and Meaning of this Act to hinder any Goldsmith Silversmith or Plateworker not inhabiting within any of the Cities aforesaid from exercising his or their Trade of Goldsmith Silversmith or Plateworker yet for preventing of Abuse & Corruption therein it is hereby further enacted That all and every Goldsmith Silversmith and Plateworker inhabiting in any Town or Place where an Assayer is not or shall not be appointed elected or chosen shall first fix his or their Mark upon all his and their Plate which shall be made from and after the said Nine and twentieth Day of September (except such Things as by Reason of their Smallness are not capable of recieving the Touch) and shall then bring or send the same to some City or Place where an Assayer is or shall be appointed elected or chosen and the same shall be there assayed according to this Act And if by the said Assayer it shall be found to be of the Finesse of the Standard which for the Time being is or shall be by Law appointed for Wrought Plate then the same shall be marked by the said Assayer as he is by this Act required to mark the Plate of the respective Company by which he shall have been chosen an Assayer and shall be allowed satisfied and paid towards his Charge and Trouble in making such Assays by the Owner or Owners Bringer or Bringers of such Plate so assayed a Summe not exceeding Six Spence for every Pound Troy and so proportionably for every greater or lesser Quantity of Plate so assayed and marked And if any such Goldsmith Silversmith or Plateworker shall work or make or cause to be wrought or made any Silver Vessell Plate or Manufacture of Silver less in Finess than according to the Standard which for the Time being is or shall be by Law appointed for Wrought Plate or shall put to Sale exchange or sell any Silver Vessell Plate or Manufacture of Silver made after the said Nine and twentieth Day of September (unless it be such Things as in respect of their Smallness are not capable of recieving a Touch) before such Vessell Plate or Manufacture of Silver shall be assayed and marked as aforesaid every such Goldsmith Silversmith and Plateworker so offending shall forfeit the said Plate or the Value thereof to be recovered and disposed as aforesaid",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "interlined on the Roll."
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X2",
      "text": "Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: Pence O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]"
    }
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/12-13/4/section/VIII",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:22:10.099294+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}