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<HEAD><HI>PROCLAMATION,</HI> Di&s;charging the ba&s;e Copper Money, Coyned in <HI>Ireland</HI> by the late King <HI>James,</HI> in <HI>1689,</HI> and <HI>1690.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_WILLIAM 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, or Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially Con&s;titute Greet|ing: Fora&s;much as, it is Informed that there are great quantities of ba&s;e Bra&s;s or Copper-Coyn, Coyned in <HI>Ireland,</HI> by the Command of the late King <HI>James,</HI> in the years One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and eighty nine, and one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and ninety, to pa&s;s for Shillings, Half-Crowns, and other <HI>&s;pecies,</HI> bearing upon one of the two &s;ides of the Shil|lings, the number of twelve marked thus, XII. with the mark of <HI>J. R.</HI> The Half-Crowns the number of XXX. with the &s;aid mark <HI>J. R.</HI> and &s;o of other <HI>&s;pecies:</HI> Imported into this Kingdom, and vented for &s;ix peny <HI>Scots</HI> Pieces, or otherwi&s;e, whereby Our Leidges are greatly abu&s;ed: Therefore We, with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, Have thought fit to Di&s;charge, and hereby Di&s;charges the Importing of the &s;aid ba&s;e Coyn of the fore&s;aid <HI>&s;pe|cies</HI> or marks, or any other what&s;oever: As al&s;o the Vending thereof, and giving or taking thereof by way of Change, under the pains following, <HI>viz.</HI> That the Importer thereof into this Kingdom in any quantity exceeding a pound weight, &s;hall be impri&s;oned by the Judge ordinar of the Bounds; where he &s;hall be apprehended, and lyable to the puni&s;hment by Law inflicted on Ven|ters of Fal&s;e Coyn: And that any other Importers, Venters or Out+givers of the &s;aid ba&s;e Coyn, in any quantity greater or &s;maller, &s;hall be lyable in the pain of twenty pounds <HI>Scots toties quoties,</HI> half to the Informer, and half to the Poor of the Pari&s;h, to be exacted by the Judge ordinar of the Bounds with all rigour. OUR WILL IS herefore, and VVe Charge you &s;trict|ly and Command, that incontinent the&s;e our Letters &s;een, ye pa&s;s to the Mer|cat Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and the remanent Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the whole Head-Burghs of all the Shires and Stewartries within this Kingdom, and there make publick Intimation of the Premi&s;&s;es, that none may 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 &s;eventh Day of</HI> March, <HI>and of Our Reign the &s;ixth Year,</HI> 1695.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii.</HI> GILB: ELIOT, <HI>Cls. Sti. Concilii.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>GOD Save 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>anno Dom.</HI> 1695.</P>
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