Section XLII Recital of c. I. ante, §11.

Corporation of Moneyers refusing, &c. to make and mark into Money Silver Plate as herein mentioned; Proceedings.

And whereas by an Act of Parliament passed this present Sessions intituled An Act for remedying the ill State of the Coyne of the Kingdom Itt is (amongst other things) enacted That in regard the small Pieces of the New Moneys to be coyned will be most useful in Co[m]merce that from and after the Fourth day of February One thousand six hundred ninety five the Master and Worker of His Majesties Mint for the time being shall upon every X1Hundred Pound Weight Troy of Sterling Silver to be coyned from the Clipt Money pursuant to the direction of that Act from time to time cause att least Forty Pounds Weight Troy to be coined into Shillings and Ten Pounds Weight Troy to be coined into Sixpences besides the other Coins which hee is to make out of the same pursuant to the Indenture of the Mint And that in case the Master and Worker of the Mint shall omitt so to do hee shall forfeit for every such Offence Twenty Pounds the one Moiety thereof to His Majesty the other Moiety thereof to the Informer to be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information wherein no Wager of Law Protection Privilege Imparlance or Essoigne shall be allowed And forasmuch as the Penalty for not making the several Species of Money in Quantity in the said Act directed is wholly and onely laid on the Master and Worker of the Mint whose part is onely to deliver cleane Silver Plates to the Corporation of Monyers from which the said Corporation are to make and mark the said Moneys for which they by Indenture of the said Mint are to have Nine Pence Halfe-penny per Pound Weight Troy for all such Silver made into Moneys and One Penny per Pound Weight Troy more for X2the better and more exact seizing and making the Money Now for the more speedy and effectual Coining of the said Money into the several Species pursuant to the said Act of Parliament Be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if the said Corporation of Monyers (being from time to time supplyed with sufficient Clean Silver Plates by the Master and Worker for the making the several Species aforesaid) shall refuse or neglect to make and mark the same into Moneys of the several Species in the said Act directed att the Prices aforesaid or shall not imploy so many Men and Horses as shall be sufficient to keep all the Ten Mills (when furnished) from time to time in full Work for Twenty Hours in each Day That then in both or either of the said Cases it shall and may be lawfull for the Master and Worker of the Mint for the time being to use and imploy such and so many other Persons and so many Horses and pay them for the making doeing and performing of the said Work as shall be necessary and to him shall seem needfull Any Usage Claime or Contract or any other Matter which shall or may be pretended by the said Corporation of Monyers to the contrary notwithstanding.