366 RAYMUND LULLY. CHAP. XIV. 



passed invisible and in a secret manner through 

 the midst of the Pharisees, so that gold was 

 made by an invisible and secret art amidst the 

 ignorant." Some instances of faith in this de- 

 lusive necromantic art may be traced in the 

 statutes and other public documents almost to 

 the first year of William and Mary, when the 

 act of the 5th of Henry IV. was repealed which 

 had been enacted to prevent the "craft of the 

 multiplication of gold." 



From whatever sources the supply of gold 

 and silver to the mints of this kingdom may 

 have been drawn, the quantity received in them 

 from the period when regular accounts have been 

 preserved 1 will show how very small was the 

 amount. 



The clear accounts commence with the reign 

 of Edward I. in 1272, between which and the 

 reign of Edward II. in 1307, the silver received 

 amounted to 



the perile of thefes. And then sey men two vers of the 

 Psautre. Irruat super eos formido et pavor, &c. And thanne 

 may men passe with outen perile." Mandeville's Travels, 

 p. 137, edit. 1727. 



1 See Ruding's Annals of the Coinage of Great Britain, 

 vol. i. p. 135. 



