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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… sent hither ought to be paid in specie and not in bank or goldsmiths' notes, for which reason several bills have of … officers of the Exchequer and Mint, and a jury of goldsmiths, according to custom, were present at an examining …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… to light money would prevent having any other, the goldsmiths using all arts to force the passing of it. For … time, which may be a means to prevent its being hoarded by goldsmiths. [ S.P. Dom. Entry Book 274, p. 167.] June 16. … 346, p. 358]; and for John Cutchbert and John his son, goldsmiths in Dublin, to go to Holland, on the recommendation …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… for the new subscriptions. Notice taken of the practice of goldsmiths in issuing out only clipped sixpences, many of … credit. It was considered that it rose from the malice of goldsmiths against the bank, which had lessened their profit; … 30 s., which was to ruin the credit of the bank; that the goldsmiths kept up their gold, and new and broad money, and …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… enriching themselves by holding a correspondence with goldsmiths, who got frequently 5 or 6 per cent., in the … it down, and putting the light in tale. But this abuse of goldsmiths England will be delivered from by the practice of …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… of money as it is plain we cannot keep, and which the goldsmiths can melt and the merchants export with so much …