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THE
 REGULATING
 Silver Coin,
 Made Practicable and Easie,
 TO THE
 GOVERNMENT
 AND
 SUBJECT.
Humbly submitted to the Consideration of both Houses of Parliament.
By a Lover of his Country.
LONDON,
Printed for Henry Bonwick, at the Red-Lion in St. Paul’s Church-Yard. 1696.
CONTENTS
THE REGULATING Silver Coin, &c.
DEFINITIONS.
CHAP. I. Of the present badness of our Coin.
CHAP. II. Of the present Scarcity of Silver Coin in England.
CHAP. III. Of the Importation of Silver.
CHAP. IV. Of Altering our Coin.
CHAP. V. Of Exportation of Coin’d Silver.
CHAP. VI. Of melting down the current Coyn of England by our Goldsmiths and other Artificers.
CHAP. VII. Of Hoarding up of the Silver Coyn.
CHAP. VIII. Of Regulating our Silver Coyn.
CHAP. IX. Advantages and Conveniencies most of which may be expected from this Method.
1
THE
 REGULATING
 Silver Coin, &c.
Writing on so curious, andintricate a Subject, Ihave great Reason tobespeak the Candour of the Reader.
A Book of this Nature cannot butexpect to meet with great Opposition,and ’tis very probable from Two sortsof Men especially, viz. Those that knowlittle of the Subject-Matter, and thosethat know much.
2They that know little are Jealous, andthey that know much Opiniatre, andwhilst one will not take Pains tocomprehend a thing, another takethtoo much to overthrow it.
Mr. Lowndes.
But as I hope I shall say nothinghere, to be pity’d; so I am on the otherside pretty secure from Envy, because,the greatest Credit that can begotten, by a thing of this Nature, dothalready seem to be engross’d by a latelearned and industrious Writerupon this Subject.
It was, I must needs say, a prudentpiece of Service the Lords of the Treasurydid the Nation, and more particularlythe Parliament, under whoseJudgment this matter justly falls, byimploying so able a Pen to clear theway, in giving a true, and entertainingAccount of Matter                         
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