Volume 1

A short treatise touching sheriffs accompts ... / Written by ... Sir Matthew Hale ... To which is added, A tryal of witches, at the assizes held at Bury St. Edmonds, for the county of Suffolk, on the 10th of March 1664, before the said Sir Matthew Hale, kt.

  • Hale, Matthew, 1609-1676.
Date:
1716
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Credit: A short treatise touching sheriffs accompts ... / Written by ... Sir Matthew Hale ... To which is added, A tryal of witches, at the assizes held at Bury St. Edmonds, for the county of Suffolk, on the 10th of March 1664, before the said Sir Matthew Hale, kt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    parts called twenty Peny-weight: For at that time 20 Peny-weight weighed one Ounce, which though the Peny-weight be altered , yet the Denomination continues. And this Allay was in ufe in the forty jfixth year of King Edw. 3. and for lome time before, and hath continued ever fince. In the Treatife of Money in the Red Book of the Exchequer which feems to be written in the time of Edw. 3, for it mentions the Inden¬ tures of the Mint in 23 Ed. 3. it is faid the ufe was then that in every pound weight of Sterling Silver there was fixteen Peny-weight of Allay: The confequence whereof is, that the Pound of Sterling Silver then contained eleven Ounces four Peny-weight of fine Silver, and fixteen Peny-weight of Copper. 1 And it fhould feem by what follows in the Chapter, that in the time of H. 2. the Allay of Copper in Sterling Silver was lefs than that: For upon every Pound weight of Silver Money they ufed to allow 12 Peny-weight ad deab bandam fir mam •, which feems to be the remedy for the reduction of the Money then currant in¬ to fine Silver, fed de hoc pojlea. But at this day, and for very many reafons, the Allay of Sterling Silver hath been 18 Peny- weight of Copper 'allowed to x i Ounces 2 Po¬ ny weight of fine Silver ^ thereby making up the Pound weight Troy of Sterling. Vul. In¬ dentures of the Mint, Clauf 46 Ed. 3. m. 18. Dorf Clauf 1. H. p. m. 3?. Dorf Clauf 4. Ed. 4. m. io. And this I take at this day to continue the Standard of Sterling Silver 2 3 E. 1. Per fpedal ordinance del Roy les Pol¬ lards & Crockards fueront decrie & admitj quel . ordinance fait tranfmit in Realm T Ireland & en¬ rol