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skilled in this affaire, to tak a vew and serch of all badge and cases of tresur,
that are transported out of the nation, and to see to the packing and making
up of said tresur, and that ther be sent no more, then, what the stat gives
licence for, both for quantytie and quality, and registered, and returned yearly
to the council of stat, and that the sd controller for his view and search and
sealing and marking it up shall demand and have tow shillings appon every
hundred pounds sterling by tayl, or the valew of every hundred pounds
sterling, if that the Gold or Silver should be in bares or ingots, for all Gold and
Silver that shall be exported by licence, either the East India Company or any
other person whomsoever, and that it shall not be lawful for any man to
transport Gold or Silver befor it be vewed and examined by Tho. Violet or his
sufficient debity, and registered."
Government supervision [and] control of international
movements of gold and silver has been a national
problem since Cicero inveighed against it in the Roman
Forum. Sir Walter Raleigh pointed out, in his "Select
Observations of the Incomparable Sir Walter Raleigh,"
MDCXCVI p.6,
"1. That Nation Can only be in a prosperous Estate that hath a
proportionable quantity of Silver or Gold to ballance the Strength and trade of
its neighboring Nations.
2. That whilst the Current Cash of this Kingdom can be converted into
Bullion, and so made a trading Commodity (as hath been practis'd this
hundred Years) 'twill either be conveyed to be best Market, or wrought in
Plate at home, notwithstanding the utmost rigour and vigiliancy, to the great
and daily Consumption of the Coin, and Detriment of the Nation. That raising
the value of our Coin, is the only certain means to keep it in the Nation to
make us a rich and thriving State, to recover our lost Trade, and the best
Bulwark and Defence against all the Attacks of our Enemies. That contrary to
the Policy of Nations, our standard Coin is of greater value in all places than
at home (Spain only excepted) for which reason we bring Spanish Mony
hither, and for the same Reason our Mony is transported to other places, to
the great Impoverishment of the Nation."