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Aurum reginae; or A compendious tractate, and chronological collection of records in the Tower, and Court of Exchequer concerning queen-gold: : evidencing the quiddity, quantity, quality, antiquity, legality of this golden prerogative, duty and revenue of the queen-consorts of England. The several oblations, fines out of which it springs both in England and Ireland; the Queens officers in the Exchequer to receive, collect, account to her for it, with their patents; ... With an addition of some records concerning our royal mines of gold and silver, and four patents of K. Henry the 6. by authority of Parliament, for finding the philosophers stone, to transubstantiate baser metals into solid real gold and silver, to satisfie all the creditors of the King and kingdom in few years space