increased in name; but the proportion between gold and silver,

and the things valued by them, would remain the same. But I

intend to prove that this increase of Proportion hath bin real,

and that the price of things in general is now grown six times as

much or eight times as much as then they cost, in name of

Shillings, Crowns and Pounds and in reality of fine Gold and

Silver, to double, and almost treble the Proportion of all

things, valued by Gold and Silver, in respect of what it was in