An Act touching the moneys and coyns of England. England and Wales. Parliament. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A82486 of text R211240 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.14[58]). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 5 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A82486 Wing E1158 Thomason 669.f.14[58] ESTC R211240 99869970 99869970 163046 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. A82486) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163046) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f14[58]) An Act touching the moneys and coyns of England. England and Wales. Parliament. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed for Edward Husband and John Field, Printers to the Parliament of England, London : 1649. Order to print dated: Die Martis, 17 Julii, 1649. Signed: Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Money -- England -- Early works to 1800. Coinage -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1649-1660 -- Early works to 1800. A82486 R211240 (Thomason 669.f.14[58]). civilwar no An Act touching the moneys and coyns of England. England and Wales. Parliament. 1649 659 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-10 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-10 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-11 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2007-11 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion blazon or coat of arms An Act touching the Moneys and Coyns of England . VVHereas the ordering of Moneys and Coyns , and setting the same at such valuations and prizes as shall be thought convenient and necessary , is appropriate and of right belonging to the Soveraign and Supreme Authority of this Commonwealth ; And the Parliament having Resolved to change and alter the former Stamps , Arms , Pictures , with the Motto's , VVords , Stiles and Inscriptions in and about the same , and to cause new Coyns of Gold and Silver to be made of several Stamps , weights and values , but of one uniform Standard and Allay , to be currant within this State and Commonwealth of England ; ( that is to say ) One piece of Gold of the value of Twenty shillings Sterlin , to be called , The Twenty shillings piece , stamped on the one side with the Cross , and a Palm and Lawrel , with these words , The Commonwealth of England ; and on the other side with the Cross and Harp , with these words , God with us : One other piece of Gold money of Ten shillings , to be called , The Ten shillings piece ; and one other piece of Gold money of Five shillings , to be called , The Five shillings piece , with the same VVords , Inscriptions , Pictures and Arms on each side as the former : And for Silver moneys , pieces of Five shillings , and pieces of Two shillings and six pence , and pieces of Twelve pence , and pieces of Six pence , having the same VVords , Inscriptions , Pictures and Arms on each side as the former ; Also pieces of Two pence , and One peny , having the same Pictures and Arms as the former , without any VVords or Inscriptions ; and the Half peny having on the one side a Cross , and on the other side a Harp : All which several Coyns of Gold and Silver , The Parliament doth hereby Enact , Declare , publish and authorize to be amongst others heretofore used , the Moneys currant for this State and Commonwealth of England , to be used and received by all the People of this Nation , in all Receipts and payments , and in all maner of Traffiquing , Bargaining and Dealing between man and man , at the several Rates and values contained in the Schedule or Table hereunto annexed , expressing their true Values and VVeights , according to the Accompt of the Mint within the Tower of London . Pieces of Gold .   Peny weights 20. Grains 24. Mites 20. Droits 24. Perits 20. Blanks 24. s. xx 05 20 10 00 00 00 s. x 02 22 05 00 00 00 s. v 01 11 02 12 00 00 Pieces of Silver . s. v 19 08 10 08 00 00 s. d. ii vi 09 16 05 04 00 00 d. xii 03 20 18 01 10 00 d. vi 01 22 09 00 15   d. ii 00 15 09 16 05   d. i 00 07 14 20 02 12 ob . 00 03 17 10 01 06 Memorandum , Twelve Ounces makes a pound weight Troy ; Twenty peny weight makes an Ounce ; Twenty four Grains makes a peny weight ; Twenty Mites makes a Grain ; Twenty four Droits makes a Mite ; Twenty Perits makes a Droit ; Twenty four Blanks makes a Perit . Die Martis , 17 Julii , 1649. ORdered by the Parliament , That this Act be forthwith Printed and Published . Hen : Scobell , Cleric . Parliamenti . London , Printed by Edward Husband and John Field , Printers to the Parliament of England . 1649.