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 -An Expedient for Paying the Sea and There can be no better way than to make every man a creditor, and keep as much as we can that little good money which is left in the kingdom, and enable every man to fupply more than at prefent he is or can be. And by his majefty making current by authority of Parliament an imaginary kind of money upon a credit given by the people one to another, confirmed and made real and as much in good money undertaken to be repaid them by their reprefentatives the parliament. (Rot. Parl. 5 R. II. m. 24.) In the parliament of the 5 R. II. how to reftrain the carrying away of money, which was the care and endeavours of many a parliament both before and afterwards, when there was fuch a plenty of gold in the 1 8 E. III. the commons in parliament prayed that no man mould be inforced to receive gold, the fame being under zos. ; and in a parliament in the soth year of that king's reign, that the king's receivers might receive as well gold asfilvcr. (Rot. Parl. 18 E. III. m. 50. and 20 E.III. m. I7-) There being now a greater caufe to aflay all lawfull means ior the more plenty of money than there was in the 15 E. III. when it was mentioned to be one of the caufes of fummoning that par- liament, or for a confultation to be had as was. (Rot. Par. 15 E. III.) It being as irnpoflible as it will be improbable that ever many ihould have plenty, or be without a great want of it, or not be beaten or baffled by enemies abroad or at home, for want of money of filver or gold to ferve the affairs of the nation if they do as we have hitherto done make it of a greater intrinfique value, or of higher alloy than the coin of other neighbour nations, which make a caufe and temptation of tranlporting of it adjudged to be fo, and fo not to be prevented by the Parliament. If our mer- chants and all others make it their bufy gains and advantage to 6 carry