Dr. Smith on the Irish Coins of Henry the Seventh. 53 



In the second year of this king, in a great council, held on the morrow of AH 

 Souls, before Edward Bishop of Meath, deputy of Edmund Earl of March, it was 

 ordained, that the noble, half, and quarter noble (except counterfeit gold) should 

 be universally received by weight, and that a standard weight should be depo- 

 sited in the Irish Exchequer, and that all the sheriffs, mayors, &c., throughout 

 the land, should have weights agreeing with the said standard, and that every 

 liege subject should have access to the standard weight as often as he pleased, 

 and that no person should refuse gold contrary to the aforesaid ordinance, under 

 a penalty of ten shiUings, to be paid to the king, and that any offender might be 

 committed to gaol, and kept there until he made redemption and fine."* 



It does not appear that the petition for the establishment of a mint in Dublin, 

 in the ninth year of Henry the Fifth, was granted before the third year of Henry 

 the Sixth, for on the 6th of February in that year, a grant of the office of 

 master of the coinage in the Castle of Dublin, was made to John Cobbham, 

 during the king's pleasure, provided that the money be made of the same weight, 

 allay, and assay, as the silver money which is made in London, and that the said 

 John may receive for the making of one lb. of money, to be made in the aforesaid 

 Castle, only as much, and that he shall pay to the king as much, as the master of 

 the coinage in London receives and pays for one lb. of the same sort, and he shall 



* " In magno consilio, coram Edwardo episcopo Midie, deputato Edmundi comitis Marchie 

 locum tenentis, in Crastino Animarum tento, ordinatum est, ad supplieacionem communium ad dic- 

 tum consilium per brevia Regis electorum, quod nobilis, obelus, et quadrans auri (auro controfecto 

 excepto) secundum pondus et valorem per ligeos ac alias gentes ad Hiberniam confluentes recipi- 

 antur per pondus universaliter : et quod unum standardum ponderis dicti auri standardo Anglie 

 concordans sit, et in thesauro in custodia thesaurarii et camerariorum saccarii Hibernie, de cetero 

 remaneret: et quod quilibet vicecomes, major, ballivus, senescallus, superior, et propositus, pertotam 

 terram, ad eorum prosecucionem habeant pondera dicto standardo recte concordancia : et insuper, 

 quod quilibet ligeus terre predicte habeat cursum ad dicta standarda in quolibet loco ubi assistunt, 

 ad pondera standardi quociens sibi placuerit faciendum : et eciam, quod ligei, et indigene, et ali- 

 enigene ad Hiberniam confluentes hujusmodi aurum, licet tonsum seu lotum, per pondus, secundum 

 valorem et pondus ejusdem percipiant in futuro : et quod nullus hujusmodi aurum contra ordina- 

 cionem predictam refutet sul) pena 10' ad opus Regis solvendum : et quod corpus ejusdem delin- 

 quentis gaole committatur in ea moraturura quousque redempcionem et finem inde faciat &.c." — 

 Rot. Claits. 2 Hen. VI. prima pars. cap. 27. ' 



