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At Edinburgh, 12 June 1661, our sovereign lord, with advice of the estates of parliament now presently convened by his majesty's special authority, considering how necessary and expedient copper money is for making of change and supplying the poor of this kingdom, orders and commands Charles Maitland of Hatton, general of his majesty's mint here in Scotland, and Sir John Falconer, master of the coinhouse, jointly and equally, to coin or cause to be coined in turners 3,000 stone weight of good pure copper (which is to be provided and furnished by the said officers equally between them) without any mixture of brass, and the said turners to be of the same intrinsic value the last journey of turners was, namely, each turner weighing a drop and a half (four grains less) of trois weight, which is to be understood where one turner is four grains less another turner may be four grains more, and on the contrary, and that the said 3,000 stone weight of copper be coined at the respective times following, namely, 2,000 stone weight of the said copper to be coined within the space of three years after the date hereof, and the third 1,000 stone to be coined within such time and space, after the expiration of the said three years appointed for coining of the said 2,000 stone, as the lords of his majesty's secret council shall judge the same to be appropriate and necessary, which his majesty, with advice foresaid, recommends to the said lords, with the impression and circumscription to be stamped upon the said whole turners to be coined, which impression and circumscription to be stamped upon the said whole turners ordains and appoints to be as the said lords of his majesty's secret council shall resolve thereon. And likewise, his majesty, with advice foresaid, recommends to the said lords of secret council that as soon as they shall be informed by the said officers of the mint of the setting up of the minthouse that they forthwith thereafter issue forth a proclamation, not only prohibiting and discharging the importing of all foreign copper coin, under the pain of confiscation thereof, but also the passing of the same after the date of the said proclamation; and in respect the said copper is to be employed in his majesty's coin here in Scotland and to be imported from England or France, or from any place beyond seas, therefore his majesty, with advice foresaid, statutes and ordains that the said quantity of copper to be coined at the respective times aforesaid be free of all custom, excise or other burden whatsoever, and for that effect discharges all farmers or customers to exact or demand any custom, excise or other burden whatsoever for the said copper, as they will answer upon their peril.
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At Edinburgh, 12 June 1616, our sovereign lord, with advice of the estates of parliament, now presently convened by his majesty's special authority, considering how necessary and expedient it is that there be a stock provided for his majesty's minthouse here in Scotland, enacts, statutes and ordains that Charles Maitland of Hatton, general of his majesty's mint and Sir John Falconer, master coiner (and all other their successors in their respective offices) equally between them, by their own means and upon their own credit, provide a stock of 20,000 merks Scots money, and that the annualrent thereof be paid yearly to them by the lords of his majesty's exchequer, there not being so much profit of money coined by them (for which they are to account to the said lords of his majesty's exchequer) to defray and relieve them of the said annualrent, out of the which profit the duties due to the said officers and wages due to the workmen and other under-officers is first to be deducted, and that the said quantity of stock shall be upheld constantly by the said officers of the said mint and minthouse the time of the exercise of their respective offices, and that, at either of their removals or both, they take payment of their respective proportions severally or jointly as shall be resolved on by both the said officers or party removed or persons representing him or them. As also, considering how much the coining of the gold or silver ore dug and found here in Scotland would contribute and tend to the increase of his majesty's coin in Scotland, advancement of trade and honour and credit of the kingdom, therefore, it is statute and ordained that all silver and gold ore and metal after the same is refined that shall happen to be found and dug here in Scotland, be coined within the said minthouse, and that none presume to transport the same furth of the kingdom, under the pain of confiscation thereof and punishing of the transporters conforming to the pains set down in preceding acts of parliament made against transporters of money out of the kingdom. Likewise, his majesty, with advice foresaid, statutes and ordains that the said officers of the mint pay and deliver to the owners and bringers in of the said gold and silver metal, for each ounce of gold of twenty-four carats fine (and being baser to be considered by weight and reckoning) one ounce of coined gold of his majesty's coin of twenty-two carats fine, being his majesty's standard of gold, and also for each ounce of silver metal of twelve denier fine (and being baser to be considered by weight and reckoning) one ounce of coined silver of eleven deniers fine, being his majesty's standard of silver. And to the effect the said officers of the mint may be warranted what species of money to coin and what impression and circumscription to stamp upon the same, therefore his majesty, with advice foresaid, statutes and ordains the species after-following to be coined, namely, one penny of silver of the value of 4 merks and another penny of silver of the value of 2 merks, and another penny of silver of the value of one merk,† and another penny of silver of the value of forty pennies, all Scots money, and as to the impression and circumscription to be stamped upon the aforesaid respective pennies of silver, his majesty, with advice foresaid, remits the same to be considered and ordered by the lords of his majesty's secret council, which is declared to be as valid and sufficient as if the same had been done by his majesty and estates of parliament now convened.