Metal for Metal: OR, A PROPOSAL For a Duty upon Tin and Pewter wrought in Plates, Dishes, or any other Work whatsoever, of one Penny upon every Pound Weight, to be levied as hereunder expressed, from the 1st of January 1695. for sixteen Years next following; and the Sum of Money arising thereby to be applied to make good the Loss upon the clipped Money.  
1. THAT from the first of January 1695. to the first of January 1712. no Pewterer or any Person that works Tin and Pewter, presume to expose to Sale any such Metal wrought, unless the same be first marked by the Officers of the Excise, having first paid a Duty to the same Officers of one Penny for every Pound Weight( of which he shall be repaid by the Buyer) under the Penalty of 20l. for every Offence, one half to the King, and the other to the Informer.  
2. That all Housekeepers, Lodgers, and others, shall be ranted to have a certain Quantity of Tin or Pewter, according to their respective Quality, and pay one Penny for every Pound Weight, according to that Estimation, and have their Pewter and Tin marked by the same Officers,( let it be more or less than they have been ranted) provided this Duty be demanded but once for the Term of the said sixteen Years.  
3. That the said Officers of the Excise make a Visit of the Houses once in every Year; and if they find any Tin or Pewter wrought, not marked, that the Owner thereof be forced to pay once more one Penny for every Pound Weight of the Pewter he was computed to have, unless he declares upon his Oath the Name of the Pewterer who has sold it.  
4. That the Officers of the Excise keep the Mark wherewith the said Tin or Pewter is to be marked, and that there be a great Penalty inflicted on such who shall be convicted of having counterfeited the same.  
5. That the said Penny upon every Pound of wrought Tin or Pewter be given back to those who shall export it out of the Kingdom.  

By the Hearth-Book there is in England 1300 thousand Houses.  500000 Houses— of poor People, — Nothing.   l. 150000 Houses of Country People and tradesman, reputed to have Pewter Vessels, 24 l. weight of Pewter, at 1 d. a Pound, for each House, is 02 s. 15000 150000 Houses— of Ditto, in a better Capacity,— 60 l. for each House   05 s. 37500 150000 Houses of Shopkeepers, and part of the Farmers,— 120 l.— 10 s. 75000 150000 Houses of great Farmers, Gentlemen and Merchants,— 192 l.— 16 s. 120000 150000 of Ale-houses, Coffee-houses, and other public Houses,— 288 l.— 1 l. 04 s. 180000 70000 Houses some great Ale-houses, Taverns and Inns,— 480 l.— 2 l. 00 s. 140000 25000 Brewhouses, Stillers, Scarlet-Diers, great public Houses, as Halls, &c. and Knights Houses,— 600 l.— 2 l. 10 s. 62500 5000 Lords and very large public Houses, 1200 l.— 5 l 00 s. 25000 1300000 Houses       655000  
The Sum that will be levied at first will be l. 655000 besides what it is at the Pewterers, which is reputed at least one fifth Part of the Whole; and all the old Pewter Vessels being generally exchanged for new ones every five Years, more or less, the fifth part only of the Sum above, will make a yearly Revenue of 131000 l. for 16 Years, to pay the Rents of a new Million-Adventure, and the 655000 l. will reimburse the Advance of the Bank of England, and the Million-Bank, as by the last Proposal of Mr. L. G.