380 LAWS PROTECTING THE COIN. CHAP. xiv. 



basing, or clipping the coin, of secretly intro- 

 ducing foreign money, or of committing forgery 

 or usury. 



The whole history of the period tends to 

 show, that the money in England of domestic 

 coinage formed but a small part of that which 

 was in existence within the kingdom, and it has 

 been dwelt upon here at greater length than it 

 would have otherwise been entitled to occupy, 

 because it appeared necessary to account for the 

 enormous difference in the extent of English 

 Coinage between the series of years which pre- 

 ceded the discovery of America, and the same 

 length of time in the present and two preceding 

 centuries. 



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