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<NAME>Elspeth Healey</NAME>
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<HEAD>By the King, A PROCLAMATION.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>WILLIAM R.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<P>_WHereas the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Knights, Citizens and Burge&s;|&s;es in Parliament A&s;&s;embled, Having ta|ken into their &s;erious Con&s;ideration, the great Mi&s;chiefs which this Our King|dom lies under, by rea&s;on that the Coin, which Pa&s;&s;es in Payment, is generally Clipped; And they being of Opinion that the mo&s;t Effectual way to put a Stop to this Evil, is to Prevent the Cur|rency thereof, as &s;oon as We in Our Wi&s;|dom &s;hould think fit, Have &s;everally by their humble Addre&s;&s;es be&s;ought Us to I&s;&s;ue Our Royal Proclamation in that behalf: And We being deeply Sen&s;ible of the great prejudice which Our good Subjects undergo by &s;uch Diminution of the Current Coins, and being very de&s;irous to Apply a Speedy and Suitable Remedy thereto Have thought fit to Declare and Command; And by and with the Advice of Our Privy Council, We do by this Our Royal Procla|mation Declare and Command, That from and after the Fir&s;t Day of <HI>January</HI> next En&s;uing, no Clipped Crowns or Half Crowns &s;hal Pa&s;s in any Payment, except only to the Collectors and Receivers of Our Revenues and Taxes, or upon Loans or Payments into Our Exchequer; And that from and after the Third Day of <HI>February</HI> next En&s;uing, no Clipped Crowns or Half Crowns &s;hall Pa&s;s in any Payment what&s;oever, within Our City of <HI>London,</HI> or within Forty Miles Di&s;tance off the &s;ame; And that from and after the Two and twen|tieth Day of the &s;aid Month of <HI>February,</HI> no Clipped Crowns or Half-Crowns &s;hall Pa&s;s or be Current in any Payment what&s;oever, within Our Kingdom of <HI>Eng|land,</HI> Dominion of <HI>Wales,</HI> or Town of <HI>Berwick</HI> upon <HI>Tweed.</HI> And We do here|by Declare and Command, That from and after the Thirteenth Day of <HI>Feb|ruary</HI> next, no Piece of Money called Shillings, Clipped within the Ring, &s;hal Pa&s;s in any Payment, except only to the Collectors and Receivers of Our Re|venues &amp; Taxes, or upon Loans or Payments into Our Exchequer, And that from and after the Second Day of <HI>March</HI> next, no &s;uch Shillings Clipped within the Ring &s;hall Pa&s;s in any Payment what&s;oever. And We do al&s;o here|by Declare and Command, That from and after the Second Day of <HI>March</HI> next, no other Money what&s;oever, Clipped within the Ring, &s;hall Pa&s;s in any Pay|ment, except only to the Collectors and Receivers of Our Revenues and Tax|es, or upon Loans or Payments into Our Exchequer, And that from and af|ter the Second Day of <HI>April</HI> next, no &s;uch Money Clipped within the Ring, &s;hall Pa&s;s in any Payment what&s;oever.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at Our Court at <HI>Ken&s;ington,</HI> <DATE>the Nineteenth Day of <HI>December, 1695</HI> In the Seventh Year of Our Reign.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God &s;ave the King.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>EDINB&V;RGH,</HI> Re-printed by the <HI>Heirs</HI> and Succe&s;&s;ors of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on</HI> Printer to His mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, 1695.</P>
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