[1641/8/214]¹

Act dischairging the mixing of tin with leade

Oure soverane lord and estates of this present parliament, considering the great hurt susteened by his majesties leiges by the fraudulent dealing of pewthereres in mixing the fyner sort of tinne brought from England, France, Flanders and others pairtes beyond sea with baiser and courser mettell of tinne and lead, and ther exacting greater pryces betuixt the new cassine by them and the old which they receive from the leiges; for remeed wherof, it is statute and ordeaned that the peutherer or founder of tin shall put the marke of the thirstle and his owne name wpoun everie peace of worke that he happenes to cast, and that the same shall be of the fynneste of the peuter marked with the rose in England; and incaise the same be wnder the fynnesse of the said peuder of England, that the same shall be confiscate and be punished in his persone at the descretione of the magistrates of the burghe wher hee dwelles, and to that effect that there bee a visitor appoynted by the magistrates for trying of the samene, as lykewayes that he shall take betuixt the old pund of old tinne and peuder marked with the rose foirsaid which he receives from the leiges and the pund of new cassine by him, eighteene pennyes allenerly wnder the paine foirsaid.