et a ses costages en tout3 choses. Si voet ñre S' le Roy q desore ē avant q celluy q lez avantditz ferre3 taillera soit mys 7 ordeigne p le dit conseil 7 surement de beñ 7 loialment faire le dit office en un meason en la Tour a ceo ordeigne & nut part aillours P la survewe du Gardein en man'e come appent. Et 3ra mesme celluy Taillour dez ferres paie pr son travaille p les mayns du dit Gardein 7 ce qil Pndra 3ra accorde devant le Conseil. Et tout3 le3 suisditz ferres quant il les ava taillee il ferra deliver en Psence du Gardein p endentur a cellui qest ordeigne dep le Roy p2 avoir la garde dez ditz ferrez en man? come appent. Et soit le Meistre tenu de resceivir chun man' dort dargent apporte a la Tour en Psence du Gardein de chaungeor solonc le vray value, cestassavoir chun pcelle en son degre un a pluis un autî a meyns solonc la qualitee. Et si le Meistre 7 le Marchaunt qapport son or 7 argent ne poent accorder entã eux de la Vraye value adonqs les assaiours de Roy a ceo depute; en ẞsence du garden 7 du Meistre devont trier la vite en celle ptie. Et solonc ce qest trove sur cest assaie le Meistre la Pndra 7 dem1a ent charge en man'e come affiert. Et voet ñre Sr le Roy q deux piers bons 7 un pair dez touches loialx soient tost p'veux al oeps le Roy p' faire lassaie dor de carỡ entř le Marchaunt 7 le Meistre 7 dem"gent en la garde dez Gardein chaungeour. Et q lez balaunces 7 poys soient totefoitz amendez 7 mys au point de temps en temps quant y busoigne issint a nutt defaute soit trove en ycelles au damage du poeple. Et ã q le dit Meistre Р luy ne P nut autre ne nu autre officer ou ministr de lez monoys ne teigne nutt comun eschaunge dein; le Citee de Loundres naillours sanz especial licence de ñre dit Sr le Roy. Et soit le Maistre tenuz sur le resceite dor 7 dargent deliver billes as marchantz de les somes qil avont illoeqs apporte ovesq, le; somes qils devont resceivre al delivance issint q lez ditz marchantz ou lor attournees monsterantz le3 dit; billes soient repaiez a le3 delivance en man'e come appent. Et face le dit Meistre delivance des tieux billes as ditz Marchantz toutdit; quant il ŝra a ce requys queux Marchantz issint apportantz or argent a la Tour eient fraunke entre 7 fraunke issue illoeqs sanz ascun destourbance des porteres ou des autres sanz rien doner as ascuns de eux pur entre ou issue avoir encountř le gree des Marchantz suisditz. Et soit fait delivance dor 7 dargent deux foitz en le semaigne ou un foitz au meyns 7 aps lassaie faite devant la delivance dez ditz monoys lez gardein chaungeour 7 meistre regardent la quan

tite de somes rescieux 7 le noumbr des psones q sount a deliverer issint q en cas q le some qest oevee ne purra suffier affaire plenier paiment as toutz soit la some de la delivance amesur en com̃yn issint q chun ent puisse pndre ptie de son paiement solonc la quantite de sa some eiant regarde au temps quaunt cħun Marchant apporta son or argent illoeqs 7 au temps quant son or 7 son argent fuist foundu T 7 soit le Meistre tenuz a monstrer sur la delivance a chun Marchant sa some quant il 3ra pr luy requys. Et en cas q nutt Marchant soit absent st ascun delivance 7 eit nutt atto'ne pr luy pst de pndre sa monoie soit le dit Meistre tenuz a pndre mesme celle monoie 7 de la savement garder soub3 le; sealx dez chaungeour 7 Meistre tanq le Marchant absent ou son attorne veigne pr resceivř le paiement de sa monoie issint demant en le garde le dit Meistre quele monoye luy 3ra adonq, Pstment delivez auxi avnt come il ust est ẞsent s' la primer deliverance faite en comune. Et pr ceo q le dit gardein pndra devs luy tout le pfit q apptient au Roy 7 ent rendra accompt come piert, p amont le dit Meistre ne 3ra tenuz dascun accompt rendre au Roy mes soulement au Gardein come la maner est horspris de damages q Sront accomptez sur luy pr le3 defautes q puissent est trovez sur lez monoies dort dargent p lassaie a Wesm p voie de les remedies suisditz dount il respondera au Roy come devant est dit. Et le dit Meistre ferra ordeigner q p luy ou p un son sufficiant depute p2 qi il voira respondre la Mynte a Caleys soit tenuz 7 gardez 7 en tant come a loffice de le dit Meistre de monoies apptient solonc la forme effect de les articles avant especifie3. Et ñre Sr le Roy fera crier defendre p tout son roialme 7 poair q nul ne port hors du roialme ascun monoye ou bullion dor ou dargent sur peine de pdre la value 7 le corps a la volunte du Roy si ceo ne soit p especial conge du Roy ou un some dor ou dargent pr despens de ceux q passeront hors du Roialme q celle monoie dort dargent soit del coigne ñre Sr le Roy de tiele quantite come purra resonablement suffir a cħun en son degree. Et q null home ne port en Englefre Engletre nul man'e de fals ou contfait monoie dort dargent sur le peine avantdite. Et q chun q puisse espier ascuns gent; q facent a lencountř 7 suer voudra pr le Roy en ycelle ptie de celle monoie q 3ra trove fals ou contrefait, la tierce ptie 3ra a celui q lespiera ou trovera 7 lez deux pties au Roy. Et ñre dit Sr le Roy conferme p ceste endenture au dit Meistre les ministres 7 oevours de la dĉe monoye les chartres des fraunchises avant

gantez as monoours solonc leffect de mesmes les chres. Et pr lez covenantz suisditz bien 7 loialment tenir pfourmir dep le dit Meistre 7 qil se porla devs ñre dit Sr le Roy 7 devs le poeple en son dit office bien convenablement 7 quil ferra gree au Roy as toutz gentz du pris de tout lor largent qil resceivra tant come il 3ra en la dit office, le dit Meistre ad faite corporel Sement devant le conseil 7 oblige luy sez heirs ses executours a ñre dit Sr le Roy p ycestes. Et pur grandỡ seurte a complier tout les choses covenantz suisditz le dit Meistre ad trove meynprises devant le Chaunceller 7 Tresorer 7 autres du conseitt ñre dit Sr le Roy cestassavoir Joħin Atte Water, Robert Walton, Richard George, John Pattesley, Piers Torald, Richard Withyall, John Biernes, William Boton, John Paake, 7 Thomas Leget de Loundres, chun deux pur C. livres 7 lavantdit Bartholomewe ad meynprice pr luy mesme pr deux mille livres de faire gree as marchantz suisditz. En tesmoignance de quele chose a lune partie de ceste endentur demurrant devs le Mestre ñre Sr le Roy ad faite mettî son gande seal, et a lautî ptie de mesme lendentur demurrant devs ñre Sr le Roy le dit Meistre ad mys son seal.

Doñ a Westm le xiij. jour de Feverer lan du regne ñre Sr le Roy noefisme.*

In dorso.] xvjo, die Februar ao H. VI. po. concordat est apud Westm qd renovet ista Indenfra scam formam infrascript, pñtib3 dnis ducib3 Glouč, Exoñ, Archiepo Cant̃, Londoñ, Wyntoñ 7 Wygorñ epis, Comitib3 Warr Norhûbr, Cromwell 7 Hungford, Cane, Thes, 7 custode privať Sigilli. Et consili? concordat est qd inŝat in Indent'is qd fac cunag in vitt Ebor: 7 Bristol una cũ infrascript vitt Lond 7 Cales.

WYMBYSSH.

As this indenture had been sealed for more than seven months before the death of Henry the Fifth I have no doubt but that it had been in active operation, and that the gold and silver coins authorised by it had been struck both in London and Calais. In all pro

This date is 13th February, 1422. Henry the Fifth died 31st August, 1422.

bability the King's death caused no interruption of working at either mint, the government intending to confirm the indenture, which the indorsement proves that they did, in a few months; therefore, though we may be satisfied that a coinage of Henry the Fifth's, in gold and silver, took place in the year 1422, it probably will be impossible to distinguish them from those first struck in the reign of Henry the Sixth.

R. S.

AN ATTEMPT AT APPROPRIATING THE ENGLISH COINS OF

HENRY THE FOURTH, FIFTH, AND SIXTH.

BY JOHN LINDSAY, ESQ.

Maryville, July 2nd, 1847.

MY DEAR SAINTHILL,-In arranging the coins of the English series we find most of the principal difficulties overcome by the genius and assiduity of the numismatists of the present age; the classification however of the coins of Henry the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth, seems to have made but little progress, and to be almost given up as a hopeless undertaking by those who have attempted it. One or two of this class having lately engaged my attention, I was gradually led into a reconsideration of the entire subject; and, the result having been a conviction that it was capable of admitting a nearer approach to a more satisfactory arrangement, I shall proceed to lay before you the ideas that have occurred to me.

In the examination of this very difficult subject no writer has adduced so much or so important evidence as Mr. Hawkins, although he has perhaps been over-cautious in drawing conclusions from it. He has divided the silver coins of these kings into three classes, viz. those unquestionably belonging to Henry the Fourth; those with equal certainty attributed to Henry the Sixth; and those which are uncertain and may belong to any of the three princes. These last are however so numerous as to form perhaps nine-tenths of the whole, and an attempt at something like a satisfactory arrangement is therefore most desirable.

The coins which may with certainty be assigned to Henry the Fourth are, as Mr. Hawkins has accurately given them, those in the proportion of 72 grains to the groat, and those with a Roman N; to which he has added, and I think correctly, the penny No. 326 of his plates, which from its resemblance to the coins of Richard the Second, may, with the highest degree of probability, be considered as also belonging to Henry the Fourth.

Those which may with certainty be assigned to Henry the Sixth are his light coins, in the proportion of 48 grains to the groat, from