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A65092	Two petitions of Thomas Violet of London goldsmith, to the Kings Majestie I. Seting forth the great abuses practised by the makers of gold and silver thread, wire, lace, to the great waste of the stock and treasure of the kingdome, in culling and melting down the heavy currant silver. II. One hundred & twelve several parcels of course and adulterate silver lace, ... Mr. Alexander Jackson, who is sworne assay-maker at Goldsmiths Hall, ... III. Ten several heads or branches certified by the Committee of Trade the 17th of June 1657. seting forth the several abuses in making gold and silver lace, wire, and thread; ... IV. Thomas Violet's petition to the Right Honourable, several Lords of the Privy Council, who are appointed a committee for the removing the obstructions of the mint, ...to present to your Lordships such rules, orders, and instructions for the due vending, and uttering of the said manufactures, ... for the ends expressed.	Violet, Thomas, fl. 1634-1662.	1661 (1661)	Wing V594A; ESTC R222530	22,825	26

TWO PETITIONS OF THOMAS VIOLET of LONDON Goldsmith TO THE KINGS Majestie I. Seting forth the great abuses practised by the makers of Gold and Silver Thread Wire Lace to the great waste of the Stock and Treasure of the Kingdome in culling and melting down the heavy currant Silver II. One hundred twelve several parcels of course and adulterate Silver Lace sould for good Silver by several Shopkeepers in London all these assayes certified under the hands of Mr. Alexander Jackson who is sworne Assay-Master at Goldsmiths Hall which Silver was course and adultrate under Sterling being all wrought against the Law III. Ten several Heads or Branches certified by the Committee of Trade the 17th of June 1657. seting forth the several abuses in making Gold and Silver Lace Wire and Thread and several waies set down for the preventing the same for the future to which I humbly referre IV. Thomas Violet's Petition to the Right Honourable several LORDS of the PRIVY COUNCIL who are appointed a Committee for the removing the obstructions of the Mint that their Honours would be be pleased to take Order for the Regulating of this Trade and prevent the abuses put upon the wearers of Gold and Silver Lace and for their fuller information that an Order may be directd from the LORDS of the COUNCIL to the Company of Goldsmiths requiring them for His MAIESTIES service that they forthwith take into consideration to present to your Lordships such Rules Orders and Instructions for the due vending and uttering of the said Manufactures as they in their great experience shall find most necessary for the ends expressed LONDON Printed Anno Dom. 1661. TO THE KINGS MOST Excellent Majestie And to the LORDS of His MAJESTIES most Honourable PRIVY COUNCIL The humble Petition of Thomas Violet Goldsmith Humbly Sheweth THat your Majesties Royal Father of blessed memory upon complaint to him made by many Persons Noblemen Gentlemen Goldsmiths and others and also to his Majesties Privy Councel as appears by Orders of the Privy Council the 25. of January 1634. shewing That much course Gold Silver Lace Gold and Silver Thread Spangles Oaes and Wyre was daily in great quantities sould for good Silver to the great dammage and hinderance of the Mint in the excessive quantities made for inferior persons And that great quantities of English heavy Silver money was culled and melted down daily for the making of these Manufactures to the great wast of the stock of currant Silver and to the daily deceit of the wearers of Gold and Silver Lace And by Order of some of your Majesties Royal Fathers Privy Council viz. Mr. Secretary Cook your Petitioner and some others were imployed to buy up several parcels of Silver Lace in several Silk-men and Wyerdrawers Shops in London and thereupon your Petitioner and some others brought the said Lace Spangles Wyer Purles Oaes to Mr. Alexander Jackson Assay-Master of Goldsmiths-Hall and he Assayed about one hundred and twelve several parcels of Gold and Silver Lace Spangles Thread Wyer c. as appears under his hand All these Assaies being by him the sworne Officer appointed for that service found and reported to be all made of course and adultrate Silver mixed with Copper contrary to the Law being vended for good Silver and the Gentleman is now living a man of great experience skill and credit that can attest this to be true to your Majesties Privy Council And your Petitioner hath the names of the several mens Houses and Shops of the Silk-men Wyerdrawers and others and the day and the year this course adultrate Silver was by them sould These original Papers your Petitioner hath ready to produce to your Majestie and your most honourable Council Thereupon his late Majesty and his Privy Council commanded Sir John Banks your Majesties Father Attorney General to put some of the eminent of the Offendors into the Star-Chamber and thereupon both Refiners and Wyerdrawers petitioned his Majesty for a Corporation and that they would so order themselves that these abuses being so many and fully proved should all be regulated and prevented for the future But upon full examination at the Privy Council his Majesty and the Lords being fully possessed what had formerly been acted by the Wyerdrawers for several years When they had a Corporation that the abuses continued so notoriously notwithstanding the Wyerdrawers Charter that their Corporation was damned in Parliament about the latter end of King James's time in a quiet time this was done and Sir Giles Monpersons had like to be undone for procuring the Wyerdrawers to have a Corporation as will appear in the Parliament Records to which I humbly referre It was demonstrated in that Parliament before your Majesties Royal Father being then Prince that the Wyerdrawers made Silver Wyer with a core of Copper and sould the same for fine Silver your Majesties Royal Father remembring this was both shewed and proved in the Parliament House of Lords he being then present would not trust the Wyerdrawers with a Corporation 1635. his Majestie saying That would give the Gold Wyerdrawers an opportunitie to cozen the Kingdome againe they having cozened the Kingdome of above twenty thousand pounds a year by deceitful making these Manufactures and venting the same for good for these last twenty years May it please your Majestie your Royal Father upon debate and advice of his Privy Council taking special notice of your Petitioners activitie and abilitie to discover and reforme these abuses in consideration of these service did by his Letters Pattents appoint your Petitioner for three lives and the longer liver of them to have and take the charge and care to be the Surveyers Tryers Sealers Assayers of all Gold and Silver Wyer Thread Purles Oaes Spangles and all other Manufactures of this sort and to Mark Register Seal or Assay the same before any of these Manufactures should be exposed to saile with power given to your Petitioner to search for and seaze on all course and adultrate Silver made into any of the aforesaid Manufactures and to burn and deface the same according to the Law to suffer no Silver to be wrought into any of these Manufactures or put to saile but Sterling Silver at the least Your Petitioner hath two lives yet in being his own life and anothers under the great Seal for the grant and allowance of one half penny the ounce Troy for all Silver Wyer Spangles Purles Oaes and four pence the pound Venice which is one half peny the ounce Troy for sealing or surveying all Gold and Silver Thread c. For the consideration of these Fees your Petitioner did keep and is bound to keep at his own charge several persons to give their attendance to Survey or Assay all Gold or Silver Wyer Thread Spangles c. to pay House-rent books wax fire coles c. and to warrant to all persons whomsoever that all Gold and Silver Wyer drawn at the Office appointed by your Majesties Royal Fathers Proclamation should all

be made of good Silver none under Sterling or the Standard And if it should chance any person or persons to be wronged in the premises and buy Gold and Silver Wyer Thread or Lace made and drawn and sealed in the said Office by your Petitioner or his Servants that then your Petitioner should pay full damages to any Person that could find out or discover the same And your Majesties Royal Father set forth his Proclamation and appointed by his Commissioners under the great Seal some of His most honourable Privy Council his Attorney and Solicitor General and Masters of Request and Clarks of the Council His Officers of the Mint and some eminent Aldermen to be His Commissioners giving them instructions under his Majesties sign Manual this being done 1635. by the advice of His Privy Council after many daies hearing at the Council Table These Gentlemen sate every week one day and five made a Committee and sometimes more to regulate and restrain the abuses and they caused some of the Offenders to be set in the Pillory being indicted at Newgate and in the compasse of six years brought the workmen and all people trading in this Manufacture into that good order and decorum that all Gold and Silver Lace Thread Wyer c. was as exactly made as the Plate or moneys of the Kingdom the numbers of Workmen regulated a due Proportion of Silver to Silk whereby this Manufacture was made the best in London of any place in Christendom and your Petitioner seeing all orders and rules setled and made by the Commissioners or any five of them to be duly executed was the principal cause of that Reformation that followed This Regulation was complained of in Parliament 1640. but upon Examination all Parties put to take their Remedy by the Law and I have in all times justified the Regulation Your Petitioner being 1641. first sent by the Parliament a Prisoner to Peter house then a ship board to the Kings Bench in the year 1643. sent close Prisoner to the Tower for near four years being kept in a dungeon 928 daies of that time and had my estate plundred to the valew of eleven thousand pounds and my damage at this day above twenty thousand pounds and threatned to be sent for a slave to Argier for bringing from your Majesties Royal Father from Oxford 1643 a Letter for peace to the City of London In all I was about eight years a Prisoner But upon the persecution of the long Parliament your Petitioner went to your Royal Father to York and the honourable Commissioners appointed for the regulating this Manufacture being Privy Counsellors and other eminent Officers of the Kingdom These Gentlemen almost all of them according to their duties followed your Majesties Royal Father in all his Troubles but since length of Time fortune of the Warres and other casualties almost all of these Honourable Councellors are dead by whose wisdom and care these abuses were regulated and this Regulation afterwards neglected the heavy coines melted Silver slightly and adulterately made to the damage of the Kingdom many hundred thousand pounds within this twenty years In your Petitioners Patent under the Great Seal of England there is this Provisoe that if hereafter the Government or Regulation of this Manufacture by Commissioners be altered or changed into any other form or any other Proclamation for the regulating this Manufacture yet your Petitioners Grant with his Fees and Powers should be and continue firme good and effectual in the Law as appears by your Petitioners Patent dated 7 Sept. 14. Car. which Patent taken out of the Rolls your Petitioner hath left with the Honourable Mr. Attorney General with a Petition to your Majestie formerly referred to the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of your Majesties Treasury touching the Regulation of this businesse 15. Sept. 1661. Your Petitioners humble prayer to your Majestie is that your Majesty would speedily prevent the great abuses and disorders daily practised in the undue making of Gold and Silver Thread Wire Lace Spangles and the unlawful melting of the heavy current silver Coines there being above twenty thousand pounds a year wasted and bruised away by thin and slight making of Silver Lace for the private profit of the Wiredrawers which if it were duly made would all be returned to the melting Pot and avoid that waste of Treasure that by order of your Majestie and your Privy Councel all persons as formerly from 1635. to 1641. be enjoyned to the due essaying of all Silver Wire at the Bar and the Thread sealed and true Registers kept of all Gold and Silver employed in this Manufacture and all Bars and Engines brought into one place according to the Proclamation of your Majesties Royal Father in the 11th year of his Reign that so your Majestie may have a true Accompt what Silver is spent in this Manufacture and so regulate the Excess which is to the prejudice of your Mint that base and inferior persons may not weare the same I humbly beseech your Majesty to read the Reasons of the Committee for Trade fol. 11. 10. Head never to trust the wire-drawers with a Corporation or with the rule government of this Manufacture And then if your Majesty be pleased to compare what your royal Father of blessed memory observed of these wire-drawers in the Parliament when he was Prince that they had deceived their trust and he would not trust them again they have cozened the Kingdome within these twenty years of above twenty thousand pounds a year in slight course and deceitful silver lace and now are endeavoring to get a Corporation to work in iniquity by a Law if your Majesty prevent it not And that your Petitioner may be required to continue his Searches so often as he shall finde just occasion to seize all course Silver under sterling made or making into any of these Manufactures and to deface the same returning the material to the Owner as soon as they are defaced according to his Patent that no Gold or Silver Lace be hereafter mixed in any part with Copper or made under sterling For the better enabling your Petitioner to do this service your Petitioner humbly prayes your Majestie to renew your Royal Fathers former Commission 1635. with such alterations and additions as your Majestie and your Privy Councel with the Attorney General shall judge fit for the persons and the powers to be your Majesties Commissioners for this business Or else if your Majestie and your Privy Councel shall think it meet for your service and the fuller discovery of these abuses never suffer the Gold Wiredrawers to have a Corporation But if your Majestie by advice of your Privy Councel command the Corporation of Goldsmiths by reason the regulating of Gold and Silver is a particular branch of their Trade that they be required by your Majestie to take and view the former regulation of this Manufacture as it was setled by Commissioners from the year 1635.

thought fit And since in the persuance of removing some obstructions in the Mint his Majesty hath set forth three Proclamations one against transporting Gold or Silver without leave from his Majesty the other setling the Rule of the currant Gold Coine of this Kingdome and the third decrying down after a certain Day all Gold and Silver Coines that have been made in England since 1640. by any authority whomsoever without his Majesties and His Royal Fathers Warrant and Proclamation to make them currant I ever held it my duty to do the Kings Majesties business first and when that was done humbly to present that which hath relation to my particular interest having obeyed some of your Lordships command to give the Merchants a reason why His Majesty could not trust them with the power to transport mony but with the inconvenience of the whole Kingdom in general Having done the Kings business I now humbly come to your Honours to have the Execution of this aforesaid office to Regulate Gold and Silver thread which I have granted unto me under the great Seal of England for two lives May it please your Lordships your Petitioner being intrusted with the Officers of his Majesties Mint and commanded by some of your Lordships to draw the draft of the Proclamation the 10. of June in the thirtenth year of his Majesties Reign He intreated the Officers of the Mint to speak with Mr. Attorney General concerning the great abuses committed by the Corporation of Wiredrawers in the adultrate false and slight making of Gold and Silver Lace And so insert it into the Proclamation that the Kings Majesty with the advice of his Privy Council would take speady Order therein The words are Viz. That whereas there is daily a great consumption of the heavy currant Silver Coines of the Kingdome and Bullion in the unlawful making Gold and Silver Wyer Thread Spangles Ooes Purles and Lace of course Silver under Sterling His Majesty doth intend in due time to take such strict course as shall reduce the makers of these Manufactures into such Order that all the abuses formerly put on the Subjects shall for the future be prevented and these Manufactures of Gold and Silver duly regulated and assayed according to the Lawes of the Kingdome May it please your Lordships This Clause in his Majesties Proclamation gave the Alaram to some persons that are Wiredrawers to ingage some worthy Gentlemen to be instrumental to procure the Wiredrawers a Corporation from his sacred Majesty and a draught of the Corporation being presented to the Wiredrawers by some persons who do undertake to use their endeavours for to obtain a Corporation for them the model presented was not liked by the Gold Wiredrawers Therefore the Gentleman desires the Gold Wiredrawers that they would alter the model of their Charter of Corporation as they pleased and he would endeavour to get from his Majesty the Corporation according as the Wiredrawers would have it for which the Gentleman covenants with the Wiredrawers to have from them one half penny the ounce for all Silver Wire imployed to make Lace or Thread c May it please your Lordships this Gentleman that would be tampering to get a Corporation for the Gold Wiredrawers of London doth not know the former passages and proceedings in Parliament touching this very Trade and the Workers being Gold Wiredrawers About the year 1618. one Sir John Michael and Sir Giles Monpersons together with the then Attorney General which I take it to be Attorney General Elverton combined together and for a some of money procured the Gold Wiredrawers a Corporation by sinester information to King James which Corporation was complained of the next Parliament as a great abuse and cozenage of these Wiredrawers of the Kingdome openly shown to the Prince and Lords in the House of Lords and by Act of Parliament their Corporation was damned Sir Giles Monpersons Sir John Michael being sentenced by Parliament for this Corporation the Attorney General hardly escaped I humbly referre my self to the Records of Parliament which may be a warning for any to have a care what they do in going about to get these Wiredrawers a Corporation let them remember Sir Giles Monpersons May it please your Lordships your humble Petitioner hath his Majesties Royal Fathers Grant under the great Seal of England Dated the 7. of Sept. in the fourtenth year of his Majesties Royal Father Reign for two lives yet in being his own life and another and the longer liver to warrant all these Manufactures to the wearers and to receive one half penny the ounce upon all Wire Assayed or Sealed and four pence the pound Venice for Gold or Silver Thread for sealing it and warranting it to the wearers to be good with a due proportion of Silver to Silk which his Majesties Royal Father gave to your Petitioner for two thousand pounds his Majesty owed your Petitioner for all his service and charges in spending above two thousand pounds to cause the transporters of Gold and Silver to be fined in the Star Chamber and sentenced by the Lords such Persons and such Fines set upon them as followeth 13. Caroli in the Star-Chamber viz Charles Frank 4000l Robert Ellis 4000l Isaac Romeere 3000l Jacob Delew 1000l Roger Fletcher 1000l Rich. Cockrem 1000l John Parrat 2000l Peter Herne 2000l John Terry 2000l Timothy Eman 2000l Isaac Brames 1000l Henry Futter 500l Henry Sweeting 500l John Perrin 100l The totall of the said Fines amount to the summe of 24100l. At this day there wants a high Court of Star Chamber to punish the transporters of Gold and Silver and some Goldsmiths that furnish them with gold This sentence did this good in the City of London that for seven years after from 1635 to 1642. that the Merchants were affraid to transport Gold or Silver and the Mint constantly was kept on work till these late troubles that overturned all things I shall humbly desire that your Lordship would be pleased to take notice that though his Majesty by his Proclamation hath called upon Gold a twenty shilling piece to go for 21 shillings 4 pence and so ratably yet some goldsmiths do take the houldness to give 21 shillings 8 pence 21 shill 9 pence and 21 shillings 10 pence And this Gold is bought up by the Sectaries either to transport or else to hoard up for some bad design His Majestie and your Lordships had need to he vigilent over these Fanaticks they are daily working hatching God grant this Ceckatrise be watched Your Petitioners humble prayer is that by your Lordships Justice for his Majesties service this Manufacture be put under some strict Rule and Order and that nothing may passe under your Lordships hands that may prejudice your Petitioners Grant which he hath under the great Seal of England for the regulateing the said Manufacture 1. I have humbly to recommend to your Honours great wisdom the due consideration of these several following Heads and humbly leave