Proposals for encreasing the Coyn of this Kingdom

The use of Gold & Silver in Cloaths Coaches & Houshold Furniture was forbid in France last March. If Such a law here should be of good consequence butif it would difficultly pass for apparrel pass for apparrel If that a But if they it should be thought too general it might suffice to forbid the use of gold & silver in laces & fringes & shoi buckles & the guilding upon leather wood & stone plaister excepting letters of gold & varnish & basic materials & other materials then standard ☾ or ☾ finer then sta.standard. excepting such pieces of work as sly singly exceed not the price of for guilding not above 6d a piece for guilding

All persons going to sea have the liberty are allowed without any restraint to carry on boadrd what plate the think fit for their own uses: by wchwhich means our money may bebeing run down into plate &may be freely exported to the Indies, without any & luxury is encouraged in the King Royal Navy, it growing into fashion for yethe Officers to have great quantities of Plate on board.

In France by an for a long time certain vessels are prohibited & Vtensils have been forbid to be made of gold &or silver & others are forbid to be made of those metalls of above a certain weights Particularly all vessels of gold for yethe use of the Table are forbid & so are all other vessels of gold exceeding abovemust not exceeding an an ounce in weight. Also Ballisters Cabinets Tables Bureaus Looking-glasses Andirons, Grates, Ornaments of yethe fire or of Chimneys, Candlesticks wthwith branches &c are forbidden to be made of silver. Basins of silver must not exceed yethe weight of 12 marks, blatters not 8, Trencher plates not 24 marks yethe douzen &c

The like prohibitions & limitations for vessels of China earthen ware would save the nation much money. And so would a general prohibition of Iapanimporting Iapan wooden ware

The importation of stained Callicoes is prohibited, but they painted of themare stained in England increase the importation of those Callicoes for wchwhich we send silver to the Indies is encreased them wchwhich yethe export& thereby the importation is encreased wchwhich exportation of orour silver to purchaseof plain Callicoes is encreased. The staining of them is prohibited in France Quære whether the want of themstained Callicoes would not cost the nationEngland more money in other commodities?

I have head that in France the Est India Merchants are enjoyned to export half as much in French commodities as in gold & silver. Such a law in England would promote the exportation of orour own manufacture & diminish the exportation of gold & silver & thereby bring down the high price of Bullion wchwhich occasions the melting down of orour money. for exportation. Such a law would force put the the East India Merchants to some difficulties for a while but in a short time would force their Trade into new Channels more to the nations advantage (thôough perhaps less to the Merchants) then those it runs in at prresent. For they Merchants would soon find out ways of vending their goods in China & other places. I would therefore propose that in lending any East India ship no money☉ or ☾ should be coined on boadrd till she had one third part of her lading in English commodities & then on a day to be appointed by the CommrsCommissioners of yethe Customes twice as much ☉ & ☾ might be in value might be carried on board. & no more.. And if any ship wanted of her lading to be in ☉ & ☾ complementdefact or remainder might be carried on board the next ship of the same Merchant or Company, & sailing to yethe Indies provided it be done within months after yethe lading of yethe former ship. But no ship should exceed her just lading in money except in making up the defect of a former ship.