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318 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.
the same inscription, or as far as it can be comprehended in the
same, according to the discretion of the said master or masters
or gravers of the said coins, of which half-groats four hundred
and fifty pieces shall make the pound of T[roy] weight, with
the remedies aforesaid, and every such piece 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 the land at
and in the value of two pence, and the penny by the same
authority shall be made in similar stamps with the said half
[groats with] the same inscription as far as .can be contained
in them according to the discretions of the master or masters
and gravers aforesaid, and of which pence [900 pieces] shall
make the pound of Troy weight with the remedies aforesaid,
and every of these not cut nor clipped, by the same authority
shall be taken [and shall pass among] all the King's subjects of
this land at and in the value of one penny, and the halfpenny by
the same authority shall be made in like [manner] of the said
pence with the same inscription as far as can be contained in
them according to the discretions of the said master or masters
and gravers, of which halfpence eighteen hundred pieces shall
make the pound of Troy weight, with the remedies aforesaid,
and for the tranquillity of the common people it is ordained
[and enacted by] the [same] authority to strike at least the
fifth part thereof and of every such pound into small pieces,
to wit, half-groats, pence, and halfpence, and also by the [same]
it authority shall be lawful for the said master or masters in the
presence of the comptroller or comptrollers of the King's mint
or the deputy or de[puties]
of any of them for the time being,
to receive their stuff and all lawful bullion brought to the same
mint in cups, spoons, and other work of
[silver] for the tranquillity
of the common people, which shall be understood of the
fineness of the said standard of the Doubles, and the same to
forge, strike, and coin, or cause to be forged, stri[cken, and
coined] in manner and form aforesaid, and the bringer and
merchants shall have for every ounce of their bullion and silver
out of the mint four shillings and sixpence, and the master and
[masters] twopence, and the residue of every ounce shall be
reserved, perceived, and received by the King, and that by the
same authority it shall be lawful for the governor of this land
for the time being under his attestation as often as it is requisite,
to direct the King's gracious writs to such person or persons
who may know how to engrave dies for the stamps of the aforesaid
money, commanding them or him to execute the King's
command in this behalf directed, and that every such writs or
writ by the same authority shall be adjudged a lawful authority
and discharge in law for the sculpture of the same, and by the