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].