Silver and Gold Thread Act 1697

II. Colouring gilt Wire with Verdigrease, &c.

Penalty; Allowance for Gold and Silver reduced into Plate, and for Gold and Silver Thread of the Fineness herein mentioned; How Gold and Silver Plate is to be spun; Penalty.; Undue laying of Plate upon Silk, Penalty.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the said Four and twentieth Day of July no guilt Wire shall be couloured with Verdigrease or Dead Head or any other forced Colour upon Pain to forfeit Two Shillings and Six Pence an Ounce for every Ounce so coloured And for all Gold and Silver prepared as aforesaid and reduced into Plate there shall be allowed at the least Six Ounces of the said Plate to cover Four Ounces of Silk the Finest of which Silk shall not run above Sixteen Yards to the Peny Weight Troy And that for all Gold and Silver Threads made Finer than the aforesaid Sizes there shal be allowed at the least Six Ounces of Plate to cover Three Ounces and an Half of Silk the Finest of which said Silk shal not run above Thirty six Yards to the Peny Weight Troy And that for all Gold and Silver Threads made Finer then the aforesaid Sizes there shall be allowed at the least Six Ounces of Plate to cover Three Ounces of Silk the Finest of which Silk shall not run above Ninety Yards to One Peny Weight Troy And for all Gold and Silver Thread made Finer. Six Ounces of Plate to cover Two Ounces and an Half of Silk And that for the future all Gold and Silver Plate shall be spun close upon well boiled and light dyed Silk only (except Frost being run thin and spun upon differing coloured Silk) upon Pain of forfeiting Two Shillings and Six Pence an Ounce for [X1 every Ounce] otherwise made And that any Spinner of Gold and Silver Thread that shall lay Gold or Silver Plate upon Silk in other Proportion than as aforesaid shall forfeit and pay for each and every Ounce so spun the Sum of Two Shillings.

Editorial Information

X1 interlined on the Roll.