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High Treason.
Also it is Treason in such, as without Authority
shall set the Kings Seal
upon any writing, Speculum Just. See Bracton lib. 3.
fol.
119. b. |
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Quære of such as shall fraudulently
thrust a Writing (among others)
to the Seal, and so get it Sealed. |
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To counterfeit the Kings Mony (sc. the Coin
of this Realm, or such as
by the Kings Authority is coined within this Realm or within the Dominions
thereof) is High Treason. Stampf. 3. c. 25
E.
3. cap. 2. |
§. 6.
Money. |
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' And the Justices of Peace may enquire thereof,
and thereupon may
' make out Process, by Capias only, against those which before
them shall
' be hereof indicted. 3 H. 5. cap. 7. |
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So to counterfeit any other Coin of any other Realm,
which (by the
Kings Proclamation or by Act of Parliament, or permission) is made
current
within this Realm, is High Treason. 1 Mar. Par. 1. cap.
6.
Co. L.
208. |
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Br. 27.
P. 4. |
So to forge or counterfeit any Coin which is not
current in this Realm,
is Misprison of Treason. |
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14 El. 3.
5 El. 11.
18 El.
P. 5. 6. |
To clip, wash, round, file, impair, diminish, lighten
or falsifie any
Coyn or Mony of this Realm or any other Realm, allowed or suffered
to
be current within this Realm, is Treason. Bracton. 119. |
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1 & 2 P.
& M. P. 3.
25 E. 3. c. 2.
Finch. |
To bring from beyond the Sea, into this Realm, any
false or counterfeit
Coyn or Mony made in any other Realm, like to the Coyn of this
Realm (or like the Coyn of any other Realm, being current within this
Realm) knowing it tl be false, to the intent to merchandise therewith
or
to make payment thereof, in deceit of the King and his people, is High
Treason: but to bring such Mony into England, out of Ireland
is but
Misprison, though he knoweth it, and uttereth it, Quia Hibernia
est quase
membrum Angliæ. |
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3 H. 7. f. 10.
Br. 19.
3 H. 7. 10. |
If he which by the Kings Warrant doth coin Mony
(either in England,
Ireland, or elsewhere) making it much less in weight than the
ancient ordinance;
or coyneth false metal, it is Treason. Br. Treason, 19. |
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So to coyn any Mony, not having Authority or Warrant
to do it, is
High Treason. Speculum Justic. |
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' To coyn Farthing-tokens is no Treason, but is
punishable; And so
' Sir Francis Harvey delivered it in his Charge at Cambridge
Summer
Assizes,
' Ann. 1631. |
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3 H. 7. f. 10.
Dyer 266. |
To utter false Mony made within the Realm, or other
the Kings Dominions,
knowing thereof, is Misprison of Treason. |
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The Book called the Mirrour of Justices, (or
Speculum
Justiciariorum,
written by Mr. Andrew Horn) divides these former Treasons into
two sorts,
sc. Le Crime de Majestie, & le Crime de Fausonnerrie.
See also Br. fol. 118.
Such as shall kill the King, or shall compass to do it.
Such as shall do or procure any thing, ad seditionem
Le Crime de Majestie.
Domini Regis, vel Exercitus sui.
3. x.
Such as shall deflower the Kings Wife, His Daughter,
of the Wife of the Kings Heir.
Le Crime de Fausonnerrie is
Falsifying the Kings Seal,
in two manners, sc. by
Falsifying his Mony. |
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