The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707, K.M. Brown et al eds (St Andrews, 2007-2024), date accessed: 29 March 2024
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An act for a new coin of gold
2Forasmuch as it is understood that the ancient and old gold within the country has been and is from home transported by strangers, passengers and others, so that presently little remains within the country, through which his majesty's subjects are damaged and the gold of other princes and countries has course within this realm, at the pleasure of such as buys and sells and not according to reasonable prices at the judgement of his majesty and estat[...] being remedied may import great inconvenience and his majesty frustrated of his highness's comm[...], therefore it is thought good, statute and ordained by our sovereign lord and his three [estates] in this present parliament that there shall be coined two pieces of gold, one of six pieces [...] ounce and of the quality of 21 carats, and one half to have course and passage for £3 15s; the other of nine in the ounce of the weight of the crown and of the quality aforesaid, and to have course of 50s, and toward the form and circumscription thereof, with the remedy of weight and fine, his majesty and estates remit the same to the lords of his highness's secret council, and, by the tenor hereof, give and grant commission to take order concerning that as they shall think expedient.
- NAS, PA2/12, ff.126v-127r.
- Gaps in text due to damage to the manuscript.