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<P>DIEV ET MON DROIT</P>
<P>HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE</P>
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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION For rai&s;ing the Rate of Money.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>_WILLIAM</HI> by the Grace of GOD, King of <HI>Great-Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith, </SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> Macers of Our Privy Council, Me&s;|&s;engers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially con&s;titute, Greeting;</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Fora&s;much as, by rea&s;on of the rai&s;ing of the Rates of the current Coyns in the neighbouring Kingdoms, and Countries with whom this Our Ancient Kingdom hath Trade and Traffique; It is found, that there is much Money, both Gold and Silver exported forth of the &s;ame, &s;o that a Proportional rai&s;ing of the Rate of of the Coynspre&s;enly current in this Kingdom, is nece&s;sary to re&s;train the &s;aid Export, and prevent the preju|dice thereof; Therefore We with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council have thought fit to Rai&s;e and hereby do rai&s;e the Rates of the Species after-mentioned, to be from the Day and Date hereof as follows, <HI>viz,</HI> The Rate of tbe &s;ilver Crown-piece coyned in <HI>Scotland,</HI> or of the &s;ilver milned Crown of <HI>England,</HI> to three pounds &s;ix &s;hilling: Of the &s;ilver <HI>Scots</HI> fourty &s;hilling Piece, to fourty four &s;hilling: Of the &s;ilver milned Half|-Crown of <HI>England,</HI> to thirty three &s;hilling: Of the &s;ilver <HI>Scots</HI> twenty &s;hilling Piece, to twenty two &s;hilling: Of the &s;ilver <HI>Scots</HI> Ten &s;hilling Piece, to Eleven &s;hilling: Of the Ducatdoun, to three pounds fourteen &s;hilling: Of the four Rex Dollars, called the Bank-Sword-Dollar, Wild-man and Wild-bor&s;e Dollars, and Ca&s;te-Dol|lar, to three pounds, all the re&s;t of the Rix Dollars continuing as they were at the Rate of fifty eight &s;hilling: Of the <HI>Scots</HI> four merk Piece, the Leg dollar, <HI>French</HI> &s;ilver Crown Piece, Cro&s;s-dollar and Milnryne, each of them to fifty eight &s;hilling, and all their Halfs and Quarters proportionally. And the&s;e Rates above-&s;et-down, are hereby Declared and Ordained to be the Current Rates of the fore&s;aid Species and Coyns, at which all Per|&s;ons in Contracts and Bargains, and in all Payments what&s;omever, &s;hall be obliged to receive the &s;ame, as the Current Coyn of this Our Antient Kingdom. And farder, We do hereby &s;trictly Order and Command, that the Laws and Acts of Parliament again&s;t the tran&s;porting of Gold and Silver out of this Kingdom, be punctually Ob&s;erved and put to Execution by all concerned. OUR WILL IS HEREFORE, and We Charge you &s;trictly, and Command, that incontinent thir Our Letters &s;een, ye pa&s;s to the Mercat-Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and whole other Marcat-Cro&s;&s;es of the Head-Burghs of the &s;everal Shires within this Kingdom, and there in Our Name and Authority, make Publication hereof, that none may pretend Ignorance: and Ordains the&s;e Pre&s;ents to be Printed.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet, at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the Twelfth day of <HI>July,</HI> And of Our Reign the Seventh year, <HI>1695</HI></DATE>.</DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. <HI>GILB. ELIOT,</HI> Cls. Sti. Concilii.</SIGNED><LB>
GOD &s;ave the King.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Heirs and Succe&s;&s;ors of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to His mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1695.</P>
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