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ON THE IRISH COINS OF RICHARD III. 319
same authority all and every manner of pieces of silver and
sums of money which have been forged, stricken, and coined,
and the sculpture of the same stamps by the master or masters
gravers and workmen aforesaid, or any of them at any time
from the first day of January last past to the day of the making
of this present act and ordinance in groats, half-groats, pence,
and halfpence, in and of the fineness of the standard of the
money aforesaid, shall be adjudged good and sufficient in law,
and that all and every manner of indictments in any of the
King's courts or before any of his officers or ministers, as -well
against any of the said masters or gravers as also against
any of the said workmen, bringers of the bullion to any
of the King's mints, or any officers or officer employing them-
selves in the said ways, [or] the utterers of the said money for
this cause and occasion in any manner had, and all and every
manner of writs, processes, exigents, and outlawries against
any manner of the said persons on this account made pronounced,
or had by the same authority, shall be adjudged void
and of no effect in law.
Cap. 9. Also at the request of the Commons. For that in
consideration of the great and chargeable costs and expenses
which the good Lord Gerot [Earl]
of Kildare, Deputy Lieutenant
of Ireland, and daily trouble which he has in defence of the
King's subjects against the Irish E[nemies] and the rebels, it is
ordained, enacted, and established by authority of this Parlia-
ment, that it shall be lawful for the said deputy during the time
which he has h[ad or] so shall have the government of this land
daily and annually to take, perceive, and receive the issues,
profits, and revenues [daily] and annually coming from the
King's mint or mints, used or to be used in this land of Ireland
by the h[ands]
of the master or masters of the said mint or
mints for the time being, or any other manner of officer or
officers of the [mints]
for the time being, and that by the same
authority all and every manner of acquittances made and to be
made and delivered by [the said] Earl, under his signet or seal
of aims, to any of the said master or masters, officer or officers,
aforesaid, and for every several parcel or full receipt in their
and for every of their acquittal and discharge of the said issues,
profits, and revenues perceived [and] received, and to be perceived
and received in form aforesaid, of the same shall be
adjudged good and effectual in law, and that by the same
authority all such his acquittances thereof severally to every of
the said master or masters, officer or officers, so made and
delivered shall be adjudged and allowed for every of them a
lawful and full discharge of the debt thereof, and of all manner
of accounts to be had thereof, and also in every of the King's