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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION Di&s;charging Forraign. Copper or Bra&s;s-Coyn.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_WILLIAM</HI> by the Grace of God King of <HI>Great-Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith; To <GAP DESC="blank"> Macers of Our Privy Council Me&s;|&s;engers at Armes, Our Sheriffs in that part Conjunctly and &s;eve|rally &s;pecially con&s;titute greeting; For as much as, We under|&s;tand that &s;everal Per&s;ons both Natives and Forraigners, pre&s;ume to import into this Kingdom Forraign Black-money, as the Black-money called <HI>French</HI> Doyets and <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Half-pennies, or other Copper or Bra&s;s Coyn of that Sort, which is contrary to the Laws of this Our Antient Kingdom, and manife&s;tly prejudicial to the Mint and Covnage thereof; Therefore, We with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, have thought fit to di&s;charge, &amp; hereby do di&s;|charge all Forraign Black-money, and all Bra&s;s or Copper Coyn what&s;omever not Coyned at Our Mint, In this Our Antient Kingdom, to be thereunto im|ported under the pain of Confi&s;cation of what &s;hall be imported in the contrary, and &s;uch other pains as the Laws inflict on the &s;aids importers. And farder We with advice fore&s;aid, ordain that no &s;uch Forraign Black-money or Copper or Bra&s;s-Coin not Coined within this Our Realm, have cour&s;e therein, or be offer|ed in Payments after the Day and Date hereof, under the Pain of Ten pounds, <HI>toties quoties,</HI> to be exacted by the next Magi&s;trat, in ca&s;e of tran&s;gre&s;&s;ing the the Premi&s;&s;es, by and attour the Confi&s;cation of the Bra&s;s and Copper-Money to be imported, or offered in payments contrair hereunto. OUR WILL IS HEREFORE, and We charge you &s;trictly, and Command, that incontinent the&s;e Our Letters &s;een, ye pa&s;s to the Mercat-Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and rema|nent Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the Head-burghs of the &s;everal Shires and Stewartries within this Kingdom, and therein Our Name and Authority, by open Procla|mation, make Intimation hereof that none 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 fourth day of <HI>May,</HI> and of Our Reign the Ninth Year <HI>1697.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii.</HI> GILB. ELIOT. <HI>Cls. Sti. Concilii</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>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 the King's mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1697.</P>
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