Hall marks on gold & silver plate

STANDARDS OF GOLD AND SILVER. 8i
STANDARDS OF GOLD AND SILVER: 22-CARAT
GOLD REVIVED.
A.D. 1573. 15 Elizabeth. Commissioners were appointed to
inquire into the standard of gold and silver, which had not been
attended to, in consequence of the disgraceful state of the coinage,
and the low degree of baseness to which that and goldsmiths' work
generally had then recently fallen, but which had then reached again
to its former purity. The Commissioners called before them the Mas-
ter and Wardens of the Goldsmiths' Company, to see how far they
had complied with the standard; and they were compelled to give
security that in future no gold wares should be of less fineness than
22 carats, and silver wares 11 oz. 2 dwts. in the pound.
STANDARDS AND PRICE OF GOLD AND SILVER WARE.
22-CARAT GOLD.
A.D. 1576. 18 Elizabeth, c. 15. "Whereas certain evildi/posed
Gold/miths deceitfully do make and /ell Plate, and other
Gold and Silver Wares, to the great defrauding of her Maje/ty, and
her good Subjects : (2) For Remedy whereof, be it enacted by the
Authority of this pre/ent Parliament, That no Gold/mith from the
twentieth Day of April next coming /hall work, /ell, exchange or
cd^nfe to be wrought, /old or exchanged, any Plate or other Gold-
/miths Wares of Gold, le/s in Finene/s than that of two and twenty
Carrects [carats], and that he u/e no Sother, Amell or other Stuffings
what/oever, in any of their Works, more than is nece//ary for the
fini/hing of the /ame; (3) and that they take not above the Rate of
Twelve-pence for the Ounce of Gold, be/ides the Fa/hion (more
than the Buyer /hall or may be allowed for the /ame at the Queen's
Exchange or Mint) upon Pain to forfeit the Value of the Thing /o
/old or : exchanged (4) And that from the /aid twentieth Day of
April no Gold/mith /hall make, /ell or exchange in any Place within
this Realm, any Plate or Gold/miths Wares of Silver, le/s in Finene/s
than that of eleven Ounces twopeny Weight; (5) nor take above
the Rate of Twelve-pence for every Pound Weight of Plate or Wares
of Silver, besides the Fashion, more than the Buyer /hall or may be
allowed for the /ame at the Queen's Exchange or Mint ; (6) nor put
to Sale, exchange or /ell any Plate or Gold/mith's Work of Silver,
before he hath /et his own Mark to /o much thereof as conveniently
may bear the /ame ; (7) upon Pain to forfeit the Value of the Thing
/o /old or exchanged. (8) And if any Gold/mith /hall make any
Gold/mith's Work or Plate, and the /ame after the /aid twentieth
Day of April /hall be touched, marked and allowed for good, by
the Wardens or Ma/ters of that My/tery, and if in the /ame there
/hall be found any Fal/hood or Deceit; then the Wardens and Corporation
of that My/tery for the Time being, /hall forfeit and pay
the Value of the Thing /o exchanged or /old; (9) the one Moiety of