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London, and petitioned King Edward, that the coins of Eng- 
land and Scotland might be interchangeably current in both 
kingdoms upon equal terms, which request was granted in 
consideration of the great humility of the King of Scotland. 
‘¢ In 1365, a new coinage was ordered in Scotland, to be 
made equivalent and conformable to the current money of 
England in weight and fineness, and to have a notable sign on 
it to distinguish it from all other money already struck. 
‘In 1367, the standard of the coiage in Scotland was 
reduced to £1 9s. 4d. the pound tale, the money to be of the 
same fineness as the last coinage, or that of England: the 
effect of which was, to reduce the weight of the groat from 
72 grains to 61:36. 
“So much light foreign money had been brought into 
England in 1367, it was found necessary to issue an order that 
no money of the coin of Scotland, or of any other country, 
except the king’s coins in gold and silver, should be current 
in the kingdom. 
‘¢ The Scottish money was again cried down by proclama- 
tion in England in 1372, which was rendered necessary by 
the advantage which the Scotch had taken of the difference 
in intrinsic value between their money and that of England ; 
for they collected the latter, and coined it into their own 
money, which was of less weight. It seems, however, that 
this ordinance was insufficient to check a practice from which - 
a considerable profit accrued ; for in the following year (1373), 
_ the Commons petitioned ‘that four pence Scotch should go 
for no more than three pence English, and, if the Scotch 
should diminish their money on that account, that the current 
value of it should be again brought down’ (Ruding, vol. ii. 
p. 208, second edition, 8vo.), which petition was granted, an 
Act passed in the following year (1374), and proclamation 
was made to that effect in Berwick-upon-Tweed; and similar 
ordinances were made in 1381 and 1387. 
