Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	john_n	king_n	scotland_n	10,269	5	8.9956	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B12801	By the King. A proclamation prohibiting the exchange of monies for profit, the making of plate of any his Maiesties coynes, and the excessiue vse of gold and siluer foliate.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I); James I, King of England, 1566-1625.	1619 (1619)	STC 8595; Interim Tract Supplement Guide 506.h.12[76]; ESTC S100767	1,547	2

¶ By the King ¶ A Proclamation prohibiting the exchange of Monies for profit the making of Plate of any his Maiesties Coynes and the excessiue vse of Gold and Siluer Foliate WHereas his Maiestie by His Proclamation bearing date the fourteenth day of May in the tenth yeere of his Reigne For the better staying of Treasure within this Realme and also for the procuring and inuiting of the same to be brought aswell into His Kingdome as to His Mint did set the prizes of forraine Gold and Siluer in their seuerall Species as by the said Proclamation more at large appeareth His Maiestie finding the same Proclamation not so duely obeyed and obserued as it ought to bee doeth heereby require and command that the sayd Proclamation being still in Force bee for the time to come more straitly put in execution Not intending neuerthelesse heereby to reuoke or discharge any Libertie which the East India Company being a Company that deserueth so well to bee vpheld and encouraged hath or ought to haue by the lawfull vse and practise of their Charter And for that the drawing of Moneys into the Goldsmiths hand by turning Siluer into Gold vpon profite of Exchange doeth make it the more ready to be engrossed into the Merchants hand for transportation to Mynts abroad And for that such profit to be taken vpon change of Moneys is prohibited by Law His Maiestie doeth further straitly charge and command that no person or persons whatsoeuer shall from henceforth giue receiue or take any maner of gaine profit or aduantage for the exchange of any Gold or Siluer moneys of any his Highnesse Realmes or currant within the same aboue the Rates at which the same are now currant within the said Realme vpon paine of the forfeiture of the same Moneys so exchanged and the parties so offending to suffer such further Penalties and punishments as by the Lawes and Statutes of this Realme or by his Maiesties Prerogatiue Royall may bee inflicted in that behalfe And furthermore the better to keepe the Gold and Siluer of this Kingdome not onely within the Realme from being exported but that it may also bee continued in Moneys and Coyne for the vse and commerce of his Maiestie and his louing Subiects not turned into any dead Masse of Plate nor exhausted and consumed in vanities by Building and the promiscuous vse of Gold and Siluer Foliate which haue beene in the Reignes of diuers Kings of this Realme seuerally prouided for and prohibited His Maiestie doeth likewise charge and commaund That no Goldsmith or other person whatsoeuer shall from henceforth Melt or make into any kind of Vessell or Plate or into any other Manufacture any the Moneys or Coynes of his Maiesties Realmes or Dominions or currant within the same but shall onely Melt and make the same Plate Vessell or other Manufactures out of old Plate forraigne Bullion or Coyne or of Siluer burnt out of Lace and the like vpon paine of the forfeiture of the Double value of the sayd Coyne so conuerted or made into Plate and of such other penalties as by the Lawes or by his Maiesties prerogatiue Royall may be inflicted vpon them And the better to preuent the vnnecessary and excessiue waste of Golde and Siluer Foliate within this Realme His Maiestie doth likewise hereby prohibite and forbid That no Gold or Siluer Foliate shall be from henceforth wrought vsed or imployed in any Building Seeling Wainscot Bedsteds Chayres Stooles Coaches or any other Ornaments whatsoeuer Except it be Armour or Weapons or in Armes and Ensignes of honour at Funerals or Monuments of the dead And therefore willeth and commaundeth That no Artificer Tradesman or other shall at any time after Sixe Moneths from the Date of his Maiesties Proclamation presume to Worke Vse or Imploy in or about any Building Seeling Wainescot Bedsteds Chayres Stooles Coaches or any other Ornaments whatsoeuer Except Armour or Weapons Armes and Ensignes of honour or Monuments of the dead as aforesayd any Gold or Siluer Foliate vpon paine of his Maiesties high displeasure and the Forfeiture of the same Materials or Workes so Siluered or Gilt and to be further punished as contemners of his Maiesties Royall Commandement Giuen at White-hall the fourth day of February in the Sixteenth yeere of Our Reigne of England France and Ireland and of Scotland the two and Fiftieth God saue the King Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill Printers to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie ANNO M.DC.XVIII