Annals of the Coinage of Britain and Its Dependencies (Volume 3); From the Earliest Period of Authentick History to the End of the Fiftieth Year of Th (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1819. Excerpt: ... tnake levies of horse and foot, and who received it as Money; the rest was carefully preserved, to be carried with the King when he should remove from thence; secret orders being sent to the Officers of the Mint to be ready to come to his Majesty as soon as he should require them a, which he meant to do as soon as he should find himself in a place convenient. There was now no more murmuring or complainingb. So much of this Plate as was then coined was probably minted at York; and the King soon after removing to Shrewsbury, erected a Mint there, in which he melted down and coined the remainder of the Plate that had been brought from the Universities, together with all his own for the service of his household, which made other men think theirs was the less worth preserving c. This Mint did not continue long, and was indeed, as Clarendon represents it, "more for reputation a However secretly these orders might be given, yet it appears that the Parliament were either apprized of them, or suspected that such a measure would be adopted, for orders were given to stop the materials belonging to the Mint, and they were accordingly detained at Scarborough, to which place they had been conveyed by sea. The Commons, after examining Briott, resolved, on the 23d of July, that Captain Stevens had done well in stopping them, as no authority appeared for transporting them. Commons Journals, vol. II. p. 687. Afterwards (upon the 5th of October) they ordered that the Officers of the Mint should be required not to suffer any officer, workmen, or instrument, belonging to the Mint, or coining, or graving, to quit their charge, or to be carried from thence, without order from the House. Id. p. 795. b Clarendon's Hist, of the Rebellion, vol. II. p. 24. c Id. p. 29. See a more fu...