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HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE   royal blazon or coat of arms  
❧ By the King.  
❧ A Proclamation for avoiding the consumption of Coin and Bullion.  
WHereas the King's Majesty, by sundry Proclamations, did heretofore restrain and forbid the unlawful melting and fining of Gold and Silver, and the making of Gold and Silver Thread, Gold and Silver Foliat, and other like Manufactures, and not finding the effect, which his Highness aimed at, did grant a Charter of incorporation to the Governor, Assistants, and Commonalty of Gold-Wyerdrawers of the city of London, hoping, by reducing those Trades under order and government, to avoid the unnecessary waist and consumption of Coin and Bullion within this Realm: But his Majesty having fully understood, aswell by the complaint of his Commons in the late Session of Parliament, as upon diligent trial, and examination of that business by the Lords of his Privy Counsel, that not only the said Corporation (which is thereupon revoked and declared to be void) but also the manufacture of Gold and Silver Thread, Gold and Silver Foliat, Purls, O's, Spangles, and other like, are unfit to be continued within this Realm; his Majesty is resolved to abolish the said Manufactures, and to put in execution the good and wholesome Laws of this Realm, against those, and other like means, of the consumption of Coin and Bullion in this Kingdom; And therefore his Majesty doth hereby straight charge and command, that no Finer of Gold or Silver, nor Parter of the same by fire or water, from henceforth allay no fine Silver, nor Gold, nor none sell in any other wise, ne to any person or persons, but only to the Officers of his Majesty's Mints, Changes and Goldsmiths, within this Realm, only for the augmentation, and amending of Coin and Plate; And that no Finer nor Finers, Parter nor Parters, sell to no person any manner of Silver, in Mass, molten and allayed; And that no Goldsmith within this Realm, melt or allay any fine Silver, but only for making of Amelles, and for amending of Plate, to make it as good as Sterling, as by the Statute in that case is provided; nor that they sell no fine Silver, nor other Silver allayed, melted into Mass, to any person or persons whatsoever, nor one Goldsmith to another, but that the Statute in this bahalfe, made in the fourth year of the Reign of his Majesty's most noble progenitor, King Henry the seventh, be in all points duly observed and kept, upon pain, that every person offending to the contrary shall incur his Majesty's high indignation, and such punishment, as by the Laws, or his Majesty's Prerogative Royal, may be inflicted for such misdemeanour and contempt.  
Given at our Court at Wansteede, the tenth day of july, in the two and twentieth yeereof Our Reign of Great Britain, France and Ireland. 
 God save the King.   

Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton and john Bill, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty. 1624.