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116 HENRY SYMONDS.For garbling (selecting) 67,814 11)9 of copper, according toagreement with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, at l d thepound, 268.For cutting thick Hungary plates and melting gun metaland charges incidental thereto, 100.For l d extra for each pound weight of " white Irish ". and2 d for the copper money, "above the amount allowed in theindenture, which they were constrained to pay to themoneyers against all conscience ", 674. (Additional MSS.24190.)The coins referred to in the foregoing accountsunderwent, together with the English series, threetrials of the pyx at the Star Chamber. The originalrecord of the two earlier trials appears to be missing,but I have taken such details as are available from acontemporary copy of a working account by Sir RichardMartin ;the official figures as to the third trial havesurvived.(1) In the period between the date of the indenture,2 Feb. 1600-1 and 20 May 1601, 26,307 pounds weightof white Irish moneys were struck, and were found bythe pyx jury to be of the standard of 2oz. 17 dwt. finesilver in the pound Troy. Martin does not state theprivy-mark, but it was presumably a slipped trefoil.The copper pence and halfpence are not mentioned inconnexion with this trial.(2) Between 20 May 1601 and 14 May 1602, 32,963pounds weight of white Irish moneys were struck,and at the trial were found to be of the standard of2 oz. 17 dwt. fine, the privy-mark being a mullet. Thecopper coins are again passed over in silence. (AdditionalMSS. 18758, p. 88.)(3) On 7 June, 1603 (1 James I), Irish silver moneys,in pieces of Is., 6d., and 3d., amounting to42 16*. 6d.,were taken from the pyx, the privy-mark being a