Plate Assay Act 1700

V. Diet Box to be locked with Three Locks.

May be annually conveyed to the Mint in the Tower; False Diets,; Penalty £50; Plate unduly marked,; Penalty.

And it is hereby further enacted That the Box or Boxes wherein the Diet of all such Plate as shall be tryed by the Assayers aforesaid is put shall be locked up with Three different Locks and the respective Keys thereof shall be kept by the Wardens and Assayers of such respective Companie by whom such Assayers shall be elected and chosen which Box or Boxes shall be at the Charge of each respective Company conveyed annually (if required by the Lord Chancellor or Keeper of the Great Seal of England for the time being) to His Majesties Royall Mint at the Tower of London And the said Diet therein contained shall be tryed as the Pix of the Coin of this Kingdom is tryed And if in any of the said Diets there shall be found any Falshood or Deceit then every such Company for every such Offence shall forfeit the Summe of Fifty Pounds to be recovered in manner as aforesaid against such Company or any Member thereof in his private Capacity and to be disposed of as aforesaid And if any Plate shall be touched [X1 allowed or marked] for good by any of the Assayers of the respective Places aforesaid and if in the same there shall be found any Deceit then such Assayer who so marked the same shall forfeit double the Value of the Plate so marked to be recovered and disposed as aforesaid

Editorial Information

X1 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: marked or allowed O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]