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Quality and Marks of Silver Work Act 1423

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 1 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1423 c. 14
Statutes made at Westminster, Anno 2 Hen . VI. and Anno Dom. 1423 The Fineness of Harness of Silver, and the Marks with which it shall be marked.

(2 Hen. 6) C A P. XIV.

'ITEM, That no Goldsmith, nor Worker of Silver within the City ofLondon , sell any Workmanship of Silver, unless it be as fine as the Sterling, except the same need Souder in the making which shall be allowed according as the Souder is necessary to be wrought in the same. (2)And that no Goldsmith nor Jeweller, nor any other that worketh Harness of Silver, shall set any of the same to sell within the City, before that it be touched with the Touch [of the Leopard's Head, if it may reasonably bear the same Touch *] and also with the Mark or Sign of the Workman of the same, upon Pain of Forfeiture of the Double, as afore is said; and that the Mark and Sign of every Goldsmith be known to the Wardens of the same Crast. (3)And if it may be found, that the said Keeper of the Touch touch any such Harness with the Leopard's Head, except it be as Fine in Allay as the Sterling, that then the Keeper of the Touch, for every Thing so proved not as good in Allay as the said Sterling, shall forfeit the double Value to the King and to the Party, as is above recited. (4)And also it is likewise ordained that the City ofYork, Newcastle upon Tine, Lincoln, Norwich, Bristow, Salisbury , and Coventry , that every one shall have divers Touches, according to the Ordinance of the Mayors, Bailiffs, or Governors of the same Towns; (5) and that no Goldsmith, nor other Workers of Silver, nor Keeper of the said Touches within the same Towns, shall set to Sale, or touch any Silver in other Manner than is ordained before within the City of London , upon Pain of the said Forfeiture. (6) And moreover that...

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