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To whom it longith to make niimmysmes or newe priâtes.

Forsoth yit hidcrto it was of anncicnt tynne resonabely ordeigned and for to be ware the disceit, tliat nat to every man it be lieful to make money or to this maner figure or Imagée to inipresse or prynte in his owne propir g'old or silver, but that money and of carectis to impresse shalbe made bi a publique persone or by moo of the comunalte to this députées.

Forwhi as it is premysed money of his nature is institute ordeignedaud founde forgood of the comunalte and forwhi a prince is a publique persone

I. Le traducteur a lu évidemment inuentorei, pour inventas^ ce qui n'offre ^plus aucuu sens.

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auctoritatis, convenions est quod ipse, pro communitate, fiiciat fabricarc mdhctam, et eam con«;;:rua imprcssione sig'uare. Hsec autem impressio débet esse subtilis, et ad effil^iendum seu contra faci end u m difHcilis. Débet etiam prohibcri sub pœna ne aliquis extraneus prince ps vel alter fabricaret monetam similem in figpura et minoris valoris, ita quod vulg'us ncsciret disting'uerc inter istam et illam. Hoc esset malefactum, nec aliquis potest de hoc habere privile- ^ium ; quia faisitas est, et causa juste bcliandi contra talem extraneum.

and of more auctorité, it is the more convenient that he for the comunalte do make money, and with causes convenable to sigfne with impressionna Forsoth this impressio un oug'ht to be subtile, and to the liknes or countrefetof hard,also itoug'ht to forbede under peyne lest any or strang-e prince or any other shuld make money like in fig^ure and of lasse valure, so that the comune people cannot distynctebitwene this and that. f£ This were a cursod dcede lest any myght of this to hâve a priv.leg^e, for vv^hi it is false and is cause of iust bataile ag-enst suche a straung'ier.

Capitulum VI * Cujus sit ipsa moneta

Quamvis pro utilitate communi princeps habeat sigpnare numisma, non tamen ipse dominus seu proprietarius est monetae currentis in suo principatu. Moneta siquidem est instrumentumœquivalens per-