comprehension of the attentive Reader. And for that purpose, I

intend first Historically, to set down by what Degrees, and upon

what Reasons the forms of Money and of Coinage, now practised are

given into use, and without any censure or observation upon them:

and I will afterwards treat a part of the inconveniences grown

into this Subject of Money, and of the Remedies that may be

Of all things whereof Money could be made, there was nothing

so fit as Metalls, as Copper, Silver, but above all Gold; for