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<P>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</P>
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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION Appointing &s;ome Forraigne &s;pecies of Gold and Silver to be Current.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>_CHARLES</HI> by the Grace of GOD, King of Great <HI>Britain, France,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith,</SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To Our <HI>Lyon</HI> King at Arms, and his Brethren Heraulds, Macers, Pur&s;evants, and Me&s;&s;en|gers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly, and &s;everally, &s;pecially con&s;titute, Greeting;</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Fora&s;much as the Lords of Our Privy Council, having taken to their Con&s;ideration a Petition pre|&s;ented by the Provo&s;t of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> in Name, and by Warrand of the Royall Burrowes of this Kingdom, Repre&s;enting, as one of the great cau&s;es of the Decay of Commerce among&s;t all Qualities of people of this Kingdom, and the deadne&s;s of the Forraign and Inland Trade thereof, to be the great &s;carcity of the &s;tock of Coyn, and of all manner of &s;pecies of Money in this Kingdom, that does much incom|modate all manner of Dealers, who are nece&s;&s;itate to deal upon Credit, wanting the &s;upplies of &s;pecies of money to main|tain the &s;ame: which Scarcity having been occa&s;ioned by the &s;mall Quantities of Silver that u&s;ed to be coyned formerly In Our Mint, before Our late happy Re&s;tauration, and the frequent Exportation even of the &s;aids &s;mall Quantities in|to Forraign parts; And having remitted the Con&s;ideration of the fore&s;aid Petition to a Commitee of their number, for preparing the &s;aid matter, impowering them to confer with the Officers of our Mint, and the&s;e of the Burrowes who were intru&s;ted with the &s;aid Petition, and to take exact tryal of the finene&s;s of Forraign Coin both of Gold and &s;ilver; who having accordingly conferred with the&s;e of the &s;aids Burrowes, and Officers of Our Mint, and having &s;een exact Tryal taken of the Intrin&s;ick Finene&s;&s;e and Value of &s;everal &s;orts of forraign Coyn, by the &s;ubtile e&s;&s;ay taken in their pre|&s;ence, did make report, that the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> and <HI>Dutch</HI> Duccatoon, the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Milrynd and <HI>French</HI> Crown, are much finer than other forraign Coyn now pre&s;ently currant in this Kingdom. W E Therefore, being unwilling to re&s;train the forraign coynes pre&s;ently currant, while our proper coyn of this Kingdom is &s;o &s;mall, and &s;o much exported because of its fine|ne&s;s; And finding it the better way to keep out cour&s;e forraign coyn, by allowing the &s;aid finer forraign Coyn to be currant: And con&s;idering, that the fore&s;aids &s;pecies of money are the Coyn of the&s;e places with which this Kingdom hath mo&s;t con&s;ide|rable Trade, and will be a great mean to inable Merchants to return money for the export of this Kingdom: Whereas if the Coyn of the&s;e places be not currant here, their Ships mu&s;t return light, or loaden with forraign Commodities of le&s;&s;e u&s;e for this King|dom, to ballance their whole expert: Have thought fit, with advice of Our Privy Council, to declare and ordain, and by the Tenour hereof do declare and ordain, That the particular &s;pecies of Forraign Coyn, above and after mentioned, &s;hal have cour&s;e within this Kingdom at the rates following, <HI>viz.</HI> The <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> and <HI>Dutch</HI> Duccatoon to pa&s;&s;e currant among&s;t all Our &s;ubjects, for three pounds ten &s;hillings <HI>&s;cots:</HI> The <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Milrynd, for two pounds &s;eventeen &s;hillings <HI>&s;cots:</HI> And the <HI>French</HI> Crown for two pounds &s;ixteen &s;hillings. And al&s;o We con&s;idering, that there hath been an Surcea&s;e, and long time &s;ince the coyning of any Gold in this Kingdom, and that the &s;pecies of all Old Gold is tran&s;ported, and little Forraign Gold imported; And for the further incouragement of the Merchants in this Kingdom, concerned in the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> and <HI>Dutch</HI> Trades, to make the Returns of their yearly Export and Effects in &s;uch &s;pecies of Gold Coynes as the&s;e Countreys do afford; Do hereby al&s;o, with Advice fore&s;aid, Ordain, and Declare, the Quadruple <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Pi&s;tol, or piece of eight of Gold, to have cour&s;e among&s;t our Subjects of this Kingdom, at the rate of fourty two pounds <HI>&s;cots</HI> the piece, the &s;ame being of u&s;ual weight, of twenty one Deniers: And al&s;o the &s;maller &s;pecies of the &s;aid Gold Pi&s;tol down-ward, to pa&s;s at the &s;aids Rates proportionally: As likewi&s;e, the <HI>Hungary, Dutch,</HI> and <HI>Fleemi&s;h</HI> Duccat of Gold weighing two Deniers, fifteen Grains, to pa&s;&s;e, and have cour&s;e for five pounds twelve &s;hillings <HI>&s;cots,</HI> The &s;ame being of the &s;aid weight. And to the effect all Our Leiges may have notice hereof, Our Will is, 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 other places needful, and thereat, in Our Name and Authority, by open Proclamation, make Publication of the Premi&s;&s;es.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet, at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the twenty &s;eventh day of <HI>February,</HI> and of Our Reign the twenty ninth year, 1677.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. <HI>Al. Gib&s;on. Cl.</HI> S^t^i. Concilii.</SIGNED><LB>
GOD Save the King.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the <HI>Heir</HI> of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to his mo&s;t Sacred Maje&s;ty, <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1677.</P>
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