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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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<HEAD><HI>PROCLAMATION</HI> For calling down the <HI>French</HI> Three-Sons-Pieces to Three &s;hillings <HI>Scots,</HI> and Appointing the <HI>Scots</HI> Fourtie-pennie-pieces to pa&s;s at Three &s;hilling &s;ix pennies <HI>Scotsper</HI> Piece.</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, conjunct|ly and &s;everally, &s;pecially, con&s;titute Greeting; FORASMUCHAS, The Sub|jects, &amp; intere&s;t of this Our Antient Kingdom do &s;u&s;tain a great &amp; growing Prejudice, by the inbringing great Quantities of the &s;mall <HI>French</HI> Money called the three Sous piece, and pa&s;&s;ing the &s;ame at three Shilling &s;ix Pennies <HI>Scots</HI> a rate far above their true Worth and Value; And that &s;everal of Our Leid|ges does Scruple and Demur to receive in Payments the Fourty <HI>Penny</HI> Pieces Coined and Minted within this Kingdom by Our Predece&s;&s;ors at the Rate of three Shilling &s;ix Pennies <HI>Scots,</HI> upon pretence that they are Bare and Worn through U&s;e, albeit the Print and Ve&s;tige of the Coine of this Kingdom be vi&s;ible upon them: Therefore, and for remeed of the Fone&s;aids Abu&s;es, We with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, Do hereby Prohibite and Di&s;charge the &s;mall <HI>French</HI> Money called the three Sous Piece, which hereto|fore pa&s;&s;ed at three Shilling &s;ix Pennies <HI>Scots,</HI> to pa&s;s for hereafter, or be offered in Payments, but at the rate of three Shilling <HI>Scots</HI> only, and to be received at no higher Rate or Value by any of Our Leidges: Ordaining and Commanding, neverthele&s;s, the <HI>French</HI> Crown to pa&s;s at fifty eight &s;hilling <HI>Scots,</HI> with its half and Quarter proportionally as before: And farder We with advice fore&s;aid Require and Command all Our Leidges to Pa&s;s and receave in payments of all Sorts, the fourty Penny Pieces of the Coine and Mint of this Kingdom, at three Shilling &s;ix Pennies <HI>Scots</HI> Money how bare &s;oever and Worne by u&s;e the famen be, if the Print and Ve&s;tige of the Coine of this Kingdom be vi&s;ible upon them; Di&s;charging hereby any of Our Leidges to refu&s;e the &s;aids <HI>Scots</HI> fourty Penny Pieces, at the Rate of three Shil|ling &s;ix Pennie, under the pain of being lyable to pay the Double of what they refu&s;e to the Party who offered the &s;ame, which is immediatly without any Proce&s;s to be decerned and exacted from the Refu&s;er by any Magi&s;trat within this Kingdom in Favours and to the behove of him from whom any of the &s;aid fourty Penny Pieces is refu&s;ed. OUR WILL IS HEREFORE, And We Charge you strictly and Commands, 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 remanent Mer|cat Cro&s;ses of the 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 may pretend Ignorance, And or|dains the&s;e Pre&s;ents to be Printed.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh</HI> <DATE>the ninth Day of <HI>December,</HI> And of Our Reign the ninth Year, <HI>1697</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> Prin|ter to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1697.</P>
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