to the just Proportion without new coyning of all the Gold, which

will produce both an extream trouble and Confusion, and exceeding

loss unto the Kingdom, and is by the Prescripts of many excellent

Roman Emperors condemned, as savoring of Injustice and Envy

towards the memorie of precedent Princes to deface their Coins.

And besides the scarcity of the Silver will still remain, for

their continuing still so great a disproportion between the new

Silver which shall be coyned according to the antient standard