Holograph draft of a clause requiring the officers of the York, Bristol, Exeter, Chester and Newcastle assay halls to attend Goldsmiths' Hall in London on request, in the event of their going two years without a pyx trial

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And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that as often as the Diets of the Goldsmiths of York, Bristol, Norwich, Exeter, Chester & Newcastel have not been tried at the trial of the Pix of the new coined moneys within two years before; the Assaymasters of those towns shall annually upon notice in writing from the Wardens of the said company of Goldsmiths or nay three of them, bring or send their several Diets to the Hall of the said Company in London, to be there tried by a Committee of the said Company & in the same manner as the Diet of the said Company uses to be tried