Annals of the Coinage of Britain and Its Dependencies: From the Earliest Period of Authentick History to the End of the Fiftieth Year of the Reign of His Present Majesty King George III, Volume 1Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, and Jones, 1819 |
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... trial of the method proposed as a public means of giving some check to a widely - extended temptation to dishonesty ; should they think it expedient to adopt it ; and , should it prove to be efficacious ; I shall then think that I have ...
... trial of the method proposed as a public means of giving some check to a widely - extended temptation to dishonesty ; should they think it expedient to adopt it ; and , should it prove to be efficacious ; I shall then think that I have ...
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... Trial of the Pix . • I acknowledge my high obligations to the Society of Antiquaries for permission to consult their rich collection of Proclamations , which they were pleased to grant some years since ; and for their Plates of English ...
... Trial of the Pix . • I acknowledge my high obligations to the Society of Antiquaries for permission to consult their rich collection of Proclamations , which they were pleased to grant some years since ; and for their Plates of English ...
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... Trial of the Pix 192 Incrementum 252 Preservation of the Coins . Tower Pound 253 Laws ..... 214 Profit and Loss .. .254 Solutio ad numerum .227 Depreciation of Money ..255 scalam . .227 Scarcity of Money ..... 261 pensum 228 Foreign ...
... Trial of the Pix 192 Incrementum 252 Preservation of the Coins . Tower Pound 253 Laws ..... 214 Profit and Loss .. .254 Solutio ad numerum .227 Depreciation of Money ..255 scalam . .227 Scarcity of Money ..... 261 pensum 228 Foreign ...
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... 14 Eliz . Harl . MSS . 698 . q Id . That is , for the private Assay in the Mint ; the other piece is reserved for the Trial of the Pix . to be tried hereafter before the King or Council , CONSTITUTION OF THE MINT . 63.
... 14 Eliz . Harl . MSS . 698 . q Id . That is , for the private Assay in the Mint ; the other piece is reserved for the Trial of the Pix . to be tried hereafter before the King or Council , CONSTITUTION OF THE MINT . 63.
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... Trial of the Pix , be not found good in fineness , and yet within the Remedy , they shall record the Lack , and a true account shall be given to the King , who shall receive the whole profit by that Lack . And if it shall be found bet ...
... Trial of the Pix , be not found good in fineness , and yet within the Remedy , they shall record the Lack , and a true account shall be given to the King , who shall receive the whole profit by that Lack . And if it shall be found bet ...
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Page 32 - ... it ; for in the laws of Canute it is provided, that if any person accused of false coinage should plead that he did it by licence from the reeve, that officer should clear himself by the triple ordeal. If he failed to do this, he was to suffer the same punishment as the falsifier himself, which, in the same chapter of the law, is said to be the loss of that hand by which the crime was committed, without any redemption either by gold or silver.
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