Taxation (No. 2) Act 1692

VII. Recital that Receivers had refused to receive cracked Money.

Any Person refusing to take cracked Money, being the current Coin; Penalty.

And whereas the Receivers of the Revenue and Aids given to Their Majesties and divers other Persons have in many places of this Kingdom refused to receive or take in payment any sort of crackd money which by Law is and ought to passe as the current Coin of this Realme by reason of which refusall many of Theire Majesties good Subjects are under great hardships and difficulties for want of money to pay theire Taxes and supply theire other necessary occasions whilst the said crack'd money lies dead by them and is rendred wholly uselesse to Their Majesties and Theire Subjects For remedy thereof be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That whosoever shall att any time hereafter refuse to receive or take in payment any crack'd money being the current Coin of this Kingdom shall for every such Offence forfeit the su[m]me of Five pounds to be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any of Theire Majesties Courts of Record by any Person who will sue for the same together with Costs of Suite in which Suite noe Essoine Protection Priviledgs Wager of Law or more then one Imparlance shall be allowed and such Offender shall alsoe be liable unto such other Punishments as by any Law or Statute now in force may or ought to bee inflicted for such Offence