Chapter II

From the Discovery of America to the End of the First Cycle of the Influence of the Metals of the New World on European Currencies, 1493-1660

General characteristics: First movement of metals from the New
World, 61; mercantile importance of the Netherlands, 63; statistics
of the production of the precious metals, 65; statement of the Mint
ratio, 69; operation of the Netherlands plakkaats, 71; list of
ditto, 76; tables of ditto, 79; monetary experience of France, 83;
course of the monies under Henry II. and Charles IX., 84; the
States-General of 1575, 87; Henry III.'s reform of 1577, 88; checked
by Henry IV., 1602, 89; the monetary experience of 1614, and reform
of 1615, 90; recoinage of 1640, 91; Florence, 93; Germany, 95; table
of the groschen and gulden, 97; Imperial Mint Ordinances of 1524,
1551, and 1559, 98, 99; Mint disorders, 100; _Kipper und Wipper
Zeit_, 102; Imperial basis of 1623, 106; Spain, 107; her function
as a distributor, 108; England 113; tables of gold and silver coins,
113; recoinage of 1527, 118; export of 1537, 119; measures of 1544,
121; the Tudor debasement, 123; Elizabeth's recoinage, 1559, 129;
the mistake of 1600, remedied by James I., 132; export of 1607 and
1611, Sir Walter Raleigh's opinions, 134; crisis of 1620-22, 139;
the State prosecutions of 1638, 148; the troubles of 1649 and 1652,
151.