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ON THE IRISH COINS OF RICHARD III. 317
the common people, still by virtue of the said ordinance is
nothing increased but diminished, that in consideration [of the]
inconveniences aforesaid by authority of this said Parliament
it is ordained, enacted, and established that it shall be lawful
for the master or masters of the [mint for the] King's coinage
in this land for the time being to forge, strike, stamp, coin,
caused to be forged, stricken, coined aud stamped for the
[benefit of the] people, and increase as well of the public good
four kinds of silver or monies, to wit, groats, half-groats, pence,
halfpence [in the same] manner as well as in every such place and
places as it is ordained to be stamped by the statute in this
matter made in the Parliament late
[holden] on the Monday
next after the feast of St. Katherine the virgin, in the tenth
year of the reign of King Edward the fourth late King of
England, [and by the same] authority that the said four kinds
of coins so to be forged, stamped, and coined, shall be forged,
stamped, and coined, and of the fineness in [and of] such
assay with all such manner of remedies in the weight of
every twenty shillings thereof, for the master or masters aforesaid,
the forging, stamping, [coining], and workmen thereof,
as by the statute, act, and ordinance in a parliament of
the said late King, holden at Dublin in the twelfth year of
his reign, was [enacte
to be used for the !] right standard
of the groat, half-groat, penny, and halfpenny of the coin then
ordained and called the groat, half-groat, [penny and] half-
penny of the coin of the Doubles, as under the stamp lately
sent out of England by the command of our sovereign lord the
King is [made], used, aud stricken for the said coin and money,
and the same so to be uttered, received, and passed current
among his subjects of this land, different from the stamps of his
coin of his kingdom of England, to wit, the groats, half-groats,
the pence, the half-pence, according to the said command to
have on one side the arms of England with a cross trefoil on
Ricardus dei gratia Rex Angliaa et
each end with inscription '
Doininus Hiberniae," and on the other sideof the same three crowns
one above the other with a cross trefoil in each end bearing in
the circumference of the same the name of the place where in
the aforesaid form it shall be legally forged, stricken, and
coined, of which groats in form as it is aforesaid specified to
be made and coined two hundred and twenty-five pieces with
the remedies aforesaid shall make the pound of Troy weight,
and every of them not cut nor clipped by the same authority
shall be taken and shall pass among all the King's subjects
through and in all this land at and in the value of four pence,
and the half-groat by the same authority shall be made with like
manner of stamp as is before specified of the said groats, with