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<HEAD>PROCLAMATION Crying down the Engli&s;h Milned <HI>Crowns</HI> and <HI>Half-Crowns:</HI> Ordaining the <HI>Old-Merk</HI> and <HI>Half-Merk-Pieces</HI> to Pa&s;s, and &s;topping the taking of <HI>Bullion,</HI> at the Mint hou&s;e.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_WILLIAM</HI> by the grace of God, King of <HI>Great-Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland;</HI> Defend|er 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 Se|verally, Specially, Con&s;titute, Greeting: Fora&s;much as by a Proclamation of the Date the twelfth Day of <HI>July,</HI> one Thou&s;and &s;ix Hundred and Ninety five Years: The rate of the &s;ilver Milned <HI>Crown</HI> of <HI>England,</HI> was rai&s;ed to three Pound &s;ix Shilling, and the En|gli&s;h milned Half <HI>Crown</HI> proportionally: And it being found prejudicial to the Na|tion, that the &s;aid Engli&s;h <HI>Crowns</HI> and Half-<HI>Crowns</HI> &s;hould pa&s;s at a greater Rate in this Kingdom, than they do in <HI>England.</HI> Therefore, We with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council; have thought fit to Cry down the &s;aid Milned Engli&s;h <HI>Crowns</HI> and Half-<HI>Crowns</HI> to the former Rate of Three pound, and one pound ten &s;hilling <HI>Scots re&s;pective,</HI> and ordains the &s;amen only to pa&s;s at the &s;aids Rates, and Di&s;charges our General Ma&s;ter and other Officers of our Mint to receive or take in the &s;aids <HI>Engli&s;h Crowns</HI> or <HI>Half-Crowns,</HI> as Bullion, or any other Bullion to be Coined, after the Day &amp; Date hereof, until further Order from the Lords of Our Privy Council, under the pain of Tin&s;el of their re&s;pective Offices, in ca&s;e they Contraveen, and to be otherwi&s;e puni&s;hed as Our Privy Council &s;hal think fit. And Prohibits and Di&s;charges all Gold-&s;miths and others to Melt down the &s;aids <HI>Engli&s;h Crowns</HI> and Half-<HI>Crowns,</HI> under the pain of double of the Value of the &s;aid Money that &s;hal be &s;o melted down: And Ordains the Magi&s;trats of Royal Burghs, and Burghs of Regality, &amp; others within who&s;e Bounds &amp; Juri&s;|dictions, there is any Gold-&s;miths or others Melters of Mony; To take Bond from the &s;aids Gold&s;miths and others, that they &s;hal not melt down the &s;aids Engli&s;h <HI>Crowns</HI> and Half-<HI>Crowns,</HI> under the pain fore&s;aid: And impowers the &s;aids Magi&s;trats to take the Oaths of the Gold&s;miths and others fore&s;aids, that dwells within their re&s;pective Burghs and Juri&s;dictiors, once every half year, and oftner if they &s;ee cau&s;e, or when Per&s;ons Informs again&s;t them, if they have melted down any of the &s;aids Milned <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Crowns, or Half-Crowns, that they may be puni&s;hed in manner Above-mentioned; the one half of the value of what &s;hall be Proven to be melted down to be applyed for the u&s;e of the Burgh within which the &s;aids Gold-&s;miths, or other Per&s;on who &s;hall Contraveen dwells, &amp; the other half to the Informer. And fora&s;much as, that notwith&s;tanding of a former Proclamation, of the date the twenty eight of <HI>January</HI> la&s;t, Ordaining the Old <HI>Scots Merk,</HI> and half <HI>Merk</HI> Pieces to Pa&s;s a|mong&s;t all Per&s;ons within this Kingdom as current Mony, yet many pre&s;ume to refu&s;e the &s;aids Old <HI>Merk</HI> and <HI>Half-merk</HI> pieces in payments, upon pretence that by long u&s;e they are become Barer, and appears Thinner, albeit they be not Clipt, and it being nece&s;&s;ar that the &s;aid Abu&s;e &s;hould be obviat: Therefore, and in Pur&s;uance of the &s;aid Proclamation, We with Ad|vice fore&s;aid, Require and Impower all Magi&s;trats of Burghs, Sheriffs, Baillies of Regalities, Stewarts and their Deputs, and all Ju&s;tices of Peace to cau&s;e to pa&s;s the &s;aid old <HI>Merk</HI> and half <HI>Merk-Pieces,</HI> which are only worn Barer &amp; Thinner through time, and are not Clipped, and to be received in all Payments within their Re&s;pective Juri&s;dictions, and to judge of all Debates ari&s;ing thereanent; and to puni&s;h the Refu&s;ers of the &s;aids Old <HI>Merk</HI> and half <HI>Mark</HI> Pieces, by fyning them &s;um|marly for their Di&s;obedience, not exceeding the double of the Mony wrongou&s;ly refu&s;ed to be payed to the Party who offers to pa&s;s the &s;amine. 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 to the Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the remanent Head-burghs of the &s;everal Shires &amp; Stewartries within this Kingdom, and there in Our Name and Authority, by open Proclamation make Intimation hereof, that none pretend Ignorance: And Ordains the&s;e pre&s;ents to be Printed.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given under Our Signet at</HI> Edinburgh <DATE><HI>the Twenty one Day of</HI> May, <HI>and of Our Reign the Eight Year,</HI> 1696.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>Ex deliberatione Dominorun 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 His mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, <HI>Ano DOM.</HI> 1696.</P>
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