An essay, for regulating of the coyn [electronic resource] : wherein also is set forth, first, how we have lost that import of plate and bullion we formerly had : secondly, what is become of the great quantities of money coyed in the reign of King Charles II and the preceding reigns : thirdly, the necessity there is at this time for to rectifie the present coyn of the kingdom : fourthly, by what methods the charge of calling in the present money, and bringing it to a designed standard may be accomplished : fifthly, whether the method proposed for the advancing of our money (and the bullion of which its made) be convenient or inconvenient for the trade of the nation / by A.V.