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312 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.
grete you wele, and woll and charge you that under oure prive
scale, being in your warde, ye make our letters in forme
following :
Forsomoche as we doubt not but afore this tyme ye have
herd and understande of the grete clamor, grugge, and
complaints which our liege people of this our reyalme have
made, of and upon the coigne of silver, made in our lande of
Irelande, for discording both in weight and in alloy frome the
coigne of sylver of this our reyalme, and the which for lak of
expresse difference that shuld have be graved upon the same,
hath be ignorantly received here within this our royalme, in
stede of suche substantciall coigne as is by good auctorite
coigned within the same, to the universall losse and hurt of all
thoo to whose handes it hath comyn in wey of payment.
Which inconvenience, by subtill and crafty rneanes of coveties
persons, as wele bringing out of this our royalme sylver bullion
in grete quantite to our mynte of Ireland, as ther forging and
streking of the same unto the said deceavable prynte, daily
encreseth more and more, and is like to bring this our royalme,
by process of tyme, to extreme poverte and desolacion, enlesse
that then other due provision be had thereupon in all hast.
We therfore woll and charge you, and everie of you, as to
him it shall or may apperteigne in the straytest wise, that
see and
incontynent upon the rescept of thise our lettres ye
provide that on either side of every pece of sylver to be coigned
hereafter within our said land of Ireland, ther be prynted and
set in the mydell thereof a clere and expresse difference fro
that sylver that is coigned here within this our royalme, that is
to say, on the one side the armes of England, and on the other
side iij corones ; damning and utterly destroying all the stamps
and irons, as touching the graving that is in them, wherwith
the sylver coignes of that our land hath hiderto be made and
stryken at any place or tyme ; revoking also and utterly setting
aside all maner power of coynyng in any place within the same
our lande, except our cite of Dy velyn and our cite of Waterforde,
upon payne of forfaitur of all that shall happen to be coigned
elleswhere within our said land, or otherwise, then is afore
expressed, unto the tyme we have otherwise ordeigned in this
behalve. And that ye certifie us and our counsaill, by writing
from you in all spede possible, how ye shall have put you in
devoir touching the premisses ; not failling herein as ye love
and tendre the honnour, wele, and profite of us and of alle our
subgettes. Yoven the xviijth day of Juylle, the first yere of
our reigne. 2
2 See " Letters and Papers illustrative of the Reigns of