advantage given to the State in recompence of the charge of

Coynage, and in Acknowledgement of the Soveraignty, which hath

with it likewise this necessary use, that it makes the Money so

much the less valuable to him that either would transport it into

forrein parts, or melt it, and consequently retaineth the Money

so much the better within its proper limits and natural form.

Of the Forms of the Money anciently and now in use

It follows in the next place to be Considered, by what