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 672 C. 26. Anno odavo & nono G u L I E L M I III. A. D. 1697. concealing the other of His Majefty's Mints, any Puncheon, Counter Puncheon, Matrix, Dye, Stamp, Edger, cutting fame, to be Engine, Prefs, or other Tool, Engine or Inftrument ufed for or about the coining of Monies there, or any Tteafon '^ ufeful Part of fuch Tools or Inftruments, that then as well the faid Perfon and Perfons fo offending, their Counfellors, Procurers, Aiders or Abettors, as alfo all and every Perfon and Perfons knowingly receiving, hiding or concealing tho fame, {ball be, an is and are hereby adjudged to be guilty of High Treafon, and being of the faid Offences, or any of them, convicSed or attainted, according to the Order and Courfe of the Laws of this Realm, fhall fuffer Death as in cafe of High Treafon. Lite Penalty on III. And be it further enafted by the Authority aforefaid. That if any Perfon or Perfons (other than the Perfons mark- Perfons employed in His Majelty's Mint or Mints, or fuch as fhall have Authority from the Lords Com- ^"S '^'^^^ ^'^'""''miffioners of the Treafury, or Lord High Treafurer oi England for the time being) fhall after the faid ■Cob ^'"^' " fifteenth Day oi May mark on the Edges any the current Coin of this Kingdom, or if any Perfon or Per- fons whatfoever fhall mark on the Edges any of the diminifhed Coin of this Kingdom, or any counterfeit Coin refembling the Coin of this Kingdom, with Letters or Grainings, or other Marks or Figures like unto thofe on the Edges of Money coined in His Majefty's Mint, every fuch OfFence (hall be and is hereby adjudged to be High Tlreafon, and the Offender and Offenders therein, his and their Counfellors, Pro- curers, Aiders and Abettors, being thereof convidled or attainted according to the Order and Courfe of the Laws of this Realm, fhall fuiFer Death as in cafe of High Treafon. or colouring, IV. And be it further enafted by the Authority aforefaid, That if any Perfon or Perfons whatfoever, gilding, &c. any after the faid fifteenth Day of May, fhall colour, gild, or cafe over with Gold or Silver, or with any Wafh Com refeinbling ^^ Materials producing the Colour of Gold or Silver, any Coin refembling any the current Coin of this oin. j^jjig^Qj^j or any round Blanks of bafe Metal, or of coarfe Gold or coarfe Silver of a fit Size and Figure to be coined into counterfeit milled Money refembling any the Gold or Silver Coin of this Kingdom, or if any Perfon or Perfons fhall gild over any Silver Blanks of a fit Size and Figure to be coined into Pieces re- fembling the current Gold Coin of this Kingdom, all and every fuch Perfon and Perfons fo offending, their Counfellors, Procurers, Aiders and Abettors, fliall be, and is and are hereby adjudged to be guilty of High Treafon, and being convifted or attainted thereof, according to the Order and Courfe of the Laws of this Realm, fhall fuffer Death as in cafe of High Treafon. Punclieon, Dye, V. And be it further enafled by the Authority aforefaid. That if any Puncheon, Dye, Stamp, Edger, Ac. founa in the cutting Etigine, Prefs, Flafk, or other T^ool, Inftrument or Engine, ufed or defigned for coining or coun- Pofieflian of any terfeiting Gold or Silver Monies, or any Part of fuch Tool or Engine, fhall, at any Time after the faid ploved'in°the"^' fifteenth Day of May, be hid or concealed in any Place, or found in the Houfe, Cuflody, or PofTeffion of Mints, may be '^^Y Perfon or Perfons whatfoever, not then employed in the coining of Money in fome of His Majefty's feized and pro- Mints, nor having the fame by fome lawful Authority, that then it fhall and may be lawful to and for any duced in Evi- Perfon or Perfons whatfoever, difcovering the fame, to feize, and he and they are hereby required to feize "^^ the fame, and to carry them forthwith to fome Juftice of Peace of the County, City, or Place where the fame fhall be fo feized, and by him fecured, to be produced in Evidence againft any Perfon or Perfons who fhall or may be profecuted for any fuch OfFence, in fome Court of Juftice proper for the Determination thereof, and after fuch Time as they or any of them fhall have been produced in Evidence, as well the fame fo produced, as the other fo feized, and not made ufe of in Evidence, and every of them, fhall forth- with, by Order of that Court where fuch Offender or Offenders fhall be tried, or by Order, and in the Prefence of fuch or fome other Juftice of the Peace, in cafe there be no fuch Trial, be totally defaced and Counterfeit Mo- deftroyed ; and if, after the faid fifteenth Day of May, any counterfeit or unlawfully diminifhed Money jiey, &c. pro- ^IlW be produced in any Court of Juftice, either in Evidence againft any Perfon or Perfons for any Offence de" "^ th''- I's's'^i'i? '° the counterfeiting or unlawfully diminifliing of A'loney, or otherwife, that then, or immediately ■wife, to be af- after Evidence given, the Judge or Judges of fuch Court fhall caufe fuch Monies to be cut in Pieces in lerwards cut in Open Court, or in the Prefence of fome Juftice of the Peace, and then to be delivered to or for fuch Perfon Pieces. or Perfons to whom the fame of Right fliall appertain. Perfons blanch- ' VI. And whereas feveral Mixtures of Metals have been invented in Imitation of Gold and Silver, and ing Copper for ' blanched Copper is principally made ufe of in Imitation of Silver, and feldom, if ever, for any honeft or t/''^'i°d c"""^ good Purpofe ;' Be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid. That if any Perfon or Perfons whatfoever, per"wUh Silver '^^^^^ '^^ '"^"'^ fifteenth Day of May, fhall blanch Copper for Sale, or mix blanched Copper with Silver, or &c. or taking 01- knowingly buy or fell, or offer to Sale, blanched Copper alone, or mixed with Silver, or fhall knowingly paying counter- and fraudulently buy or fell, or offer to Sale, any malleable Compofition or Mixture of Metals or Minerals, feit milled Mo- which fliall be heavier than Silver, and look, and touch, and wear like Standard Gold, but be manifeftly "^y» ^<=' worfe than Standard, or fhall take, receive, pay, or put off, any counterfeit milled Money, or any milled Money whatfoever unlawfully diminifhed, and not cur in Pieces, at or for a lower Rate or Value than the fame by its Demomination doth or fhall import, or was coined or counterfeited for, that then all and every tolieguilty of ^"^'^ Perfon and Perfons fliall be deemed and adjudged guilty of Felony, and, being thereof convicted or Felony. attainted, according to the Order and Courfe of the Laws of this Realm, fhall fuffer Death as in cafe of Felony. AttainJerbythis VII. Provided always, and be it enai?Led by the Authority aforefaid. That this A61, or any thing therein Aa not to make contained, or any Attainder or Attainders of any Perfon orPerions for any Offence or Offences made Trea- Corruptinn of fon or Felony by this A£t, fhall not in any wife extend, or be judged, interpreted, or expounded, to make Blood, &c. jjj^y Corruption of Blood to'any the Heir or Heirs of any fuch Offender or Offenders, or to make the Wife of any fuch Offender to lofe or forfeit her Dower of or in any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, or By what Evi- her Title, Adtion, or Intereft to the fame ; and that all and every Perfon or Perfons that fhall at any Time dence Offend- J^f^gJ. (.j^g j-jjjj fifteenth Day of May be accufed or impeached of any the Offences made Tieafon or Felony iacd^ ^""" ^y this Ait, fhall or may be indidted, arraigned, tried, convicSled, or attainted, by fuch like Evidence, and in fuch Manner and Form, as now are, or may by the Laws of this Realm be had or ufed againft any Offendet