recompence for so much as the over-put in the Money, being within

the remedy permitted, and this they call in French Battre le

fort. But all States rather inclining to make their Moneys weak

than strong, there is in these latter Ages another way practiced,

which is more general; that is, that Coins are not made one jot

above the just proportion of weight and fineness, but

(notwithstanding) the fail of either, so as it be no more than

the grains of remedy, they are allowed as compleat: and by this