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<NAME>John Pas</NAME>
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<HEAD>PROCLAMATION <HI>Di&s;charging all</HI> Engli&s;h <HI>&V;nmilln'd-Money to pa&s;s, except by Weight, and Al|lowing and Crying-up the</HI> Engli&s;h <HI>Milln'd Crown to Three Pound five Shilling, with it's Fractions proportionally.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>VVILLIAM</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 Arms, Our Sheriffs in that Part, conjunctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially Con&s;titute, Greeting: For as much as, this Our Ancient Kingdom is much prejudged by the importing of great Quantities of Light unmilln'd <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Money into the &s;ame, and that the In|conveniency thereby ari&s;ing, is likely to increa&s;s, &s;ince that kind of Money is no more current in the Kingdom of <HI>England,</HI> except by Weight; And al&s;o We con&s;idering how expedient it is, that the Milln'd-Money of <HI>England</HI> be rai&s;ed, to a Proportion with other Coyns pre&s;ently current within this Kingdom: Therefore, We with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Coun|cil, have Di&s;charged, and hereby di&s;charge all <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Unmilln'd-money to pa&s;s in payments otherways than by Weight, at Four Shilling <HI>Scots</HI> the Drop, making three Pounds four Shillings <HI>Scots</HI> for the Ounce, and &s;o proportionally upwards and downwards, according to the le&s;&s;er and greater Weight than the &s;aid Drop and Ounce; Providing, that in great payments the weighing be by &s;ingle Ounces, and their Fractions, and no greater Weight: And We with Advice fore&s;aid, peremptorly Require and Command all our Subjects to receive the &s;aid <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Unmilln'd-Money in all Payments, as current Money, according to the Rate of Four &s;hilling <HI>Scots</HI> the Drop-weight, and no otherwi&s;e, under the Pain of being lyable to the Double of what &s;hall be refu&s;ed, to be &s;ummarly exacted, at the In&s;tance, and for the u&s;e of the Offerer, by the Determination of any Judge ordinary, to be given without any Proce&s;s of Law; As al&s;o, We with Advice fore&s;aid, have Ordained, and hereby Or|dain the Silver Milln'd-Crown of <HI>England,</HI> to pa&s;s, and be received in all Payments, at Three Pound five Shilling <HI>Scots,</HI> and the milln'd Half crown, milln'd Shilling, and milln'd Sixpence of <HI>England,</HI> as the Fractions of the &s;aid milln'd Crown, to pa&s;s, and be current in all Payments within this Our King|dom, according to the &s;aid Rate of the Crown proportionally to their Value, under the pain fore&s;aid, to be determined in manner above mentioned, and that none refu&s;e to receive Payments in the re&s;pective Species of Money from the Day and Date hereof, at the Rates above-&s;pecified, under the Pains fore&s;aids, as they will be an&s;werable. 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 and Stewartries within this Kingdom, and thereat in Our Name and Authority, by open Proclamation, make Publi|cation 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 third day of</HI> January, <HI>and of Our Reign the eight year.</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> Print|er to the King's mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, <HI>Anno</HI> 1697.</P>
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