By the King, a proclamation for making currant His Majesties farthings & half-pence of copper and forbidding all others to be used England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II) 1672 Approx. 4 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2009-03 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A32447 Wing C3348 ESTC R36172 15613827 ocm 15613827 104143 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. 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Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng Legal tender -- England. Great Britain -- History -- Charles II, 1660-1685. 2008-03 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-04 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-05 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2008-05 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion CR DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE royal blazon or coat of arms By the King. A PROCLAMATION For making Currant His MAJESTIES Farthings & Half-pence of Copper , And Forbidding all others to be Used . CHARLES R. WHereas of late years several Persons and Corporations , upon pretence that there wanted small moneys to be currant in low and ordinary payments amongst the poorer sort , have presumed to cause certain pieces of Brass , Copper , and other Base Mettals to be stamped with their private stamps ; and then imposed those pieces upon Our poor Subjects for Pence , Half-pence , or Farthings , as the makers thereof were pleased to call them , whereby Our Subjects have been greatly defrauded , and Our Royal Authority and the Laws of Our Kingdom violated . And whereas We , for prevention of the like abuses for the time to come , Did not onely direct a severe Prosecution of the Offenders , But did likewise Command the Officers of Our Mint to cause many Thousands of pounds of good sterling Silver to be Coyned into Single pence , and Two-pences , that so there might be good money currant amongst the poorest of Our Subjects , and fitted for their smaller Traffick and Commerce ; hoping by one or both these means , to have totally suppressed the unlawful Practices of these Offenders ; Since which time We have found by experience , That the mischief hath still encreased , Partly by having Our small Silver moneys bought in and hoarded up , that so there might be a scarcity thereof in common payments : But chiefly by the vast Gain and profit which these Stampers make to themselves , and for which they choose to run any hazards of Law , rather then quit the hopes of their private lucre : We therefore taking the premisses into Our Princely consideration , and believing that Our Subjects would not easily be wrought upon to accept the Farthings and Half-pence of these private Stampers , if there were not some kind of necessity for such small Coynes to be made for Publique use , which cannot well be done in Silver , nor safely in any other Mettal , unless the intrinsick value of the Coyn be equal , or near to that value for which it is made currant : Have thought fit , by Advice of Our Privy Council , to cause certain Farthings and Half-pence of Copper to be Stamped at Our Mint , according to such form , and with such Impression as We have directed : And We have given special Charge to Our Officers there , That they cause such Half-pence and Farthings so to be Coyned , to contain as much Copper in weight , as shall be of the true intrinsick value and worth of an Half-peny or Farthing respectively , the charges of Coyning and uttering being onely deducted . And We do further by this Our Royal Proclamation Declare , Publish , and Authorize the said Half-pence and Farthings of Copper so Coyned , and to be Coyned , to be currant money ; and that the same from and after this instant 16 th day of August , shall pass and be received in all Payments , Bargains , and Exchanges to be had or made between Our Subjects , which shall be under the value of Six pence , and not otherwise , nor in any other manner . And if any Person or Persons , Bodies Politique or Corporate , shall after the First day of September next , presume to make , vend , or utter any Pence , Half-pence , Farthings , or other pieces of Brass , Copper , or other Base Mettal , other then the Half-pence and Farthings by this Our Royal Proclamation Authorized and allowed ; or shall offer to counterfeit any of Our Half-pence or Farthings , We shall hold all such Offenders utterly inexcusable , and shall cause their Contempt of Our Laws and Government to be chastised with Exemplary Severity . Given at Our Court at Whitehall , the 16 th day of August , in the 24 th year of Our Reign . 1672. God save the King. In the SAVOY Printed by the Assigns of John Bill and Christopher Barker , Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty . 1672.