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The two different standards of wrought plate continued.
The distinguishing marks for the two standards.
No plate to be of a courser allay.
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41. And whereas it may be requisite for encouraging the several manufactures of wrought plate, to continue both the standard of plate of eleven ounces ten peny weight troy, and also the standard of eleven ounces two peny weight troy, for the better accommodating the buyers of plate, and the workers and dealers therein: Be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, that from and after the first day of June one thousand seven hundred and twenty, all silver vessels of plate or manufactured of silver shall not be made less in fineness than that of eleven ounces ten peny weight of fine silver in every pound troy, or of silver less in fineness than eleven ounces two peny weight of fine silver in every pound troy; which two different standards of wrought plate shall be severally and respectively marked with distinguishing marks; (that is to say,) vessels made of silver plate or manufactured silver, not less in fineness than eleven ounces ten peny weight of fine silver in every pound troy, to be marked with the workmans mark, the mark of the wardens of the mystery or craft of the goldsmiths, and with the figure of a lions head erased and the figure of a woman called the Britannia; and all vessels of silver plate or manufactured silver, not less in fineness than eleven ounces two peny weight of fine silver in every pound troy, and under the degree of eleven ounces ten peny weight of fine silver in every pound troy, shall be marked with the workers mark, and the wardens of the mystery or craft of goldsmiths as aforesaid, and with the figure of a lion passant, and the figure of a leopards head; and that it shall not be lawful to make any vessels of silver plate or manufactures of silver of a courser allay than what is herein specified, under the penalties and forfeitures prescribed by any of the laws now in being concerning wrought plate, any thing in this Act, or in any other Act or Acts, to the contrary notwithstanding.
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