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<DATE>2008-03-04</DATE>
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<NAME>Paul Schaffner</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B080137.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<P> HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE
DIEV ET MON DROIT</P>
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<HI>PROCLAMATION</HI> For Crying down the Silver <HI>Scots Crown-Piece,</HI> and the fourty <HI>Shilling,</HI> twenty <HI>Shilling,</HI> ten <HI>Shilling,</HI> and five <HI>Shilling Scots</HI> Pieces to their former Rates.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_WILLIAM</HI> by the grace of God, King of <HI>Great-Bri|tain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith, To <GAP DESC="blank"> Macers of Our Privy Council, Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, Conjunctly, and Severally, Specially, Con|&s;titute, Greeting: For as much, as by a Proclamation of the Date the twelfth Day of <HI>July,</HI> one thou&s;and &s;ix hun|dred ninety five Years, The Rate of the Silver <HI>Scots</HI> Crown-Piece was rai&s;ed to three <HI>Pound</HI> &s;ix <HI>shilling,</HI> and its Fractions propor|tionally: Which Rates were then judged expedient. But it being now found Ju&s;t and Rea&s;onable, That the &s;aids Species of Money be Reduced, and &s;hould pa&s;s at no greater Rate than as they were appointed to pa&s;s by the Act of Parliament, one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred eighty &s;ix; Ordaining the &s;amen to be Coined. Therefore We with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy-Council, Have thought &s;it to Cry down the &s;aids Silver Crown Pieces Coined in <HI>Scot|land,</HI> the Fourty Shilling-Piece, Twenty Shilling-Piece, Ten Shilling-Piece, and Five Shilling-Piece to the &s;aid former Rate of three <HI>Pound,</HI> fourty <HI>Shil|ling,</HI> twenty <HI>Shilling,</HI> ten <HI>Shilling,</HI> and five <HI>Shilling re&s;pective</HI>: And Ordains the &s;amen only to pa&s;s at the &s;aids Rates. OUR WILL IS HEREFORE, and We Charge you Strictly, 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 to the Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the remanent Head-Burghs of the &s;everal Shires, and Stewartries within this Kingdom, and there in Our Name and Authority, by open Proclamati|on, make Intimation hereof, that none pretend Ignorance; and Ordains the&s;e pre&s;ents to be Printed.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Out Signet, at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the &s;econd Day of <HI>June,</HI> and of Our Reign the Eight Year, <HI>1696.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii.
<SIGNED><HI>GILB. ELIOT,</HI> Cls. Sti. Concilii.</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 his mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, <HI>Anno DOM.</HI> 1696.</P>
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