I R  HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT  English royal blazon flanked by the English lion and Scottish unicorn  
❧ By the King. ¶ A Proclamation for reforming sundry inconveniences touching the Coins of this Realm.  
ALbeit by sundry Proclamations heretofore published with the advice of Our Privy Council, We have sufficiently manifested Our care and constant desire to meet with such inconveniences, as either diminish the plenty, or impair the just value of the Coins of this Our Realm; yet experience hath made it evident, that neither the severity of Our Laws, nor strictness of Our Proclamations have effected that good, which in Our Princely care and providence of the public weal, We have so much aimed at, but against all Our endeavour and provision, far greater quantities of light Gold, then in any former age hath been known, are daily and continually uttered, to the great deceit of Our Subjects; and not only so, but the weightiest of our Coin, being culled out and sorted, is transported into foreign parts, to the impoverishing of this Our Realm. And therefore finding these evils, (grounded upon hope of gain) to break through all other politic Constitutions, We have resolved, in pursuit of our Laws and Proclamations against those abuses, to make trial, if by proposal of benefit to such as shall further Our intention, though with Our own apparent loss, We may advance the plenty and abundance of Coin within Our Realms: And therefore finding that the profit of Our coinage (though already abated beneath the Rates of former times) doth at this present amount to the sum of twenty six shillings four pence for every pound weight of Gold coined at Our Mint, besides some gain by sharing at the same Mint; We have given order, that for and during the space of one year now next ensuing, the same be reduced to the sum of fifteen shillings only, including therein also the gain by sharing. And to the intent all Our loving Subjects, that shall be occasioned to bring any Gold to be coined at Our Mint, may have a just and full return thereof, without diminution; We do hereby publish and declare, and it is Our express will and pleasure, that Our Officers of Our Mint shall from henceforth, according to the ancient Law and Custom of this Our Realm (ratified by authority of Parliament in the five and twentieth year of the Reign of Our most Noble Progenitor King Edward the third, and in the ninth year of the Reign of King Henry the fift) receive Gold and Silver into Our Mint by weight, and shall deliver out the Moneys thereof, when it shall be made, by weight or by number, at the election of him which shall receive the same without delay or difficulty.  
And whereas, for the reducing of Our Gold coin to the same price & value which it bore in foreign parts, whereby the transportation thereof might more easily be prevented, We did heretofore advance the same gold Coin in every twenty Shillings, two Shillings, and according to that proportion in greater or lesser pieces of Gold, by which means the same Coins are not found so useful for Our Subjects, both by the unaptness for tale, occasioning fractions and perplexities in reckonings, and by the inequality of the sum, causing our Subjects in some disbursements of Gold, to deliver more than other wise they would, if the Coin were of an even proportion; WE have thought meet hereafter to forbear the stamping of any more of those unequal Coins, and to reduce Our Moneys hereafter to be made unto the ancient values of Coin in use before the said advancement, intending nevertheless, and Our express will and pleasure is, That such as are already coined, shall continue of the same value as they be at this present: And therefore for the time to come, to remove such inequality in Coins, We have resolved of certain Coins of Gold, which together with those already coined, We will and ordain to be from henceforth currant within these Our Kingdoms of Great Britain, Ireland, and the rest of Our Dominions (that is to say) One piece of fine Angel gold, of the value of thirty Shillings sterling, stamped on the one side with Our picture crowned, and in Parliament robes, sitting in a Chair, and at the feet a Portcullis, with Our style, JACOBUS D. G. MAG. BRIT. FRAN. & HIB. REX: And on the other side, Our Arms, with a cross flory, and the number of XXX. A circle about the Escutcheon of Arms, charged with Flower-deluces, Lions, and Roses, with this inscription in an outer circle, A DNO FACTUM ISTUD, ET EST MIRAB. IN OCULIS NRIS. Another piece of fine Angel Gold, of the value of Fifteen Shillings, stamped on the one side with a Lion crowned, holding a sceptre in the one paw, and Our Escutcheon of Arms in the other, marked with the number XV. with Our style aforementioned, and on the other side with a spurrowell, and in the midst thereof a Rose, and without the points of the rowel Flower-deluces, Lions, and Crowns, with the forementioned inscription about, A Dno factum istud, & est mirab, in oculis nostris. One other piece of fine Angel Gold of the value of ten Shillings, stamped on the one side with the picture of an Angel striking a Serpent, with the number of X. and Our style aforesaid round about, and on the other side with a Ship with one sail displayed, with Our Arms thereon, and with the like inscription, A Dno factum istud, & est mirab. in oculis nostris. One other piece of Crown Gold of the value of twenty Shillings, stamped on the one side, with Our picture Crowned with a Laurel, with the number of XX. and Our style aforementioned round about, and on the other side Our Arms crowned, with this inscription about, Faciam eos in gentem unam. One other piece of Crown Gold of the value of ten Shillings, stamped with Our Picture and style last mentioned, and the number of X. on the one side, and on the other side Our Arms Crowned, with this inscription about, Henricus Rosas, Regna jacobus. And one ●●her piece of crown Gold of the value of five Shillings, stamped on the one side with Our Picture and style last mentioned, and the number of V and on the other side with the like stamp as the ten Shillings piece.  
And because the abuse of impairing Our Gold Coin is grown more frequent than heretofore, by reason the delivering and receiving the same by weight (a matter agreeable both to ancient and modern Laws and Proclamations) hath been of late greatly neglected, whereby Offenders have had more opportunity and encouragement to clip, wash, and diminish the same Coins: We have therefore thought good to quicken the said Laws, and former Proclamations; And therefore according to the precedent of a Proclamation made in the Nine and twentieth year of the reign of Our late dear sister Queen Elizabeth, which continued in force till her decease, And of the like Proclamation since published by Us, in the ninth year of Our reign of England, We do hereby declare, That after the first day of September next, it shall be free and lawful for all and every Our loving Subjects, to refuse in any payments, all pieces of Gold heretofore Coined, which shallbe lighter than according to the Remedies or Abatements prescribed by the aforesaid Proclamation, made in the ninth year of Our reign, That is to say, 
 In every piece of gold current for 33. shillings, The remedy and abatement shall not exceed 4. grains and a half. 22. shillings, 3. grains. 15. shillings 6. pence, 2. grains and a half. 11. shillings, 2. grains. 5. shillings 6. pence, 1. grain. 2. shillings 9 pence. Half a grain.  
And all other pieces of Gold hereafter to be coined, which shall be lighter than according to the remedies or abatements hereafter ensuing, (that is to say) In every new piece of gold current for 30. shillings, The remedy and abatement shall not exceed 3. grains. 20. shillings, 2. grains. 15. shillings, 1. grain and a half. 10. shillings, 1. grain. 5. shillings, Half a grain.  
And to the intent all Our loving Subjects in all parts of this Our Realm may have good and just Weights for the true weighing of all the said Coins of Gold, and true and upright grains & half grains for the remedies & abatements aforesaid, We have commanded the Master of Our Mint within Our Tower of London now being, (the appointment thereof, being proper & peculiar to Us only) to prepare and make ready before the said first day of September next a sufficient number of upright Balances and true Weights, aswell of every several piece of Gold lawfully current in this Our Realm, as of the said remedies and abatements, to be ready to deliver at reasonable prices, to be rated by Our Commissioners for Our Treasury, or Treasurer of England for the time being, to all such Our Subjects as shall require the same; And Our will and pleasure is, That the chief Officers in all Our Cities, Boroughs & Towns corporate of this our Realm of England, and Principality of Wales, shall before the last day of the said month of September next, provide to have one pair of the said Weights sufficient, at the hands of the said Master of Our Mint, within every such City, Borough, and Town corporate, well and safely to be kept, for trial of the Weight of the said Coins, as any occasion shall be. And We straightly forbidden all Our Subjects and others whatsoever, to have or use any other Weights then as aforesaid for the said Coins of Gold, remedies, or abatements, or any of them.  
Given at Abthorpe the 31. day of july, in the seventeenth year of 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. ANNO 1619.