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And in ease any of the aforesaid pieces of gold or silver shall want of the 

 weight herein laid down on the said pieces respectively, then allowance is to 

 he given of two pence per each grain so wanting in any piece of the kinds of 

 gold coia, and three pence for each pennyweight so wanting in any piece 

 of the kinds of silver coin, and so proportionately for greater or lesser wants 

 of weight in the said pieces. And we do hereby declare that all the aforesaid 

 sorts of foreign coin being standing weight are to pass and are to be paid 

 and received at the rates above mentioned, and any such coins not weighing 

 down the scales in the weighing thereof, is not to be any cause for the refusal 

 thereof at the rates herein above mentioned. As also that every person 

 receiving any money shall receive by what side of the scales he pleases, if he 

 uses those of the payer, and if he uses his own, then he is to receive by which 

 side the payer shall think proper to direct. And to the end that there may 

 be no uncertainty in the weights of money, we do hereby further declare 

 that we have directed all the weights that are necessary for the said silver 

 coin to be exactly made by Henry Paris and John Cuthbeard of the city of 

 Dublin, the stamps to be flat and the circle to be smooth and polished, that 

 no dust may gather in, and each weight to be stamped with the number of 

 pennyweights it bears on one side and the crown and harp on the other side, 

 where the same may be had at reasonable rates, not exceeding twelve pence 

 for all the weights being eight in number, viz. : for the ducatoon, half ducatoon 

 for the whole plate and Peru pieces and half and quarter pieces thereof, a 

 two-penny weight, a penny weight and a halfpenny weight, which are aU 

 that will be necessary for weighing the several sorts of silver coin that do 

 now commonly pass in this kingdom. And we have ordered a standard of 

 all sorts of the said weights for silver coin to be left in the hands of the 

 respective sheriffs of the several counties of this kingdom, and also in the 

 hands of the respective mayors and other chief magistrates of the several 

 cities and corporations of this kingdom, by whom the same are to be left in 

 succession with the next succeeding sheriffs, mayors, and other magistrates 

 to the end that all differences that shall happen about any weights for money 

 may thereby be either determined or prevented. And in case any person or 

 persons shall either pay or receive any money by any other weight than such 

 as shall be agreeable to the weights so to be left in the said sheriffs, mayors, 

 and other chief magistrates' hands, they are to be proceeded against and 

 published according to the law as keepers and users of false and unlawfid 

 weights. 



