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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>&leaf; By the King.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">&para; A Proclamation again&s;t the vttering of light Spani&s;h Siluer Coine.</HEAD>
<P>_WHereas the Spani&s;h Siluer Moneyes (which heretofore were good and of full waight, and went in payments by toleration without preiudice, or rather to the benefite of Trade within this Realme,) are now of late in a maner generally &s;o clipped and impaired, That in the payment thereof, the lo&s;&s;e is mo&s;t com|monly (to the Receiuer) no le&s;&s;e then a full third part; And whereas there is dayly brought from forraine Countreis into diuers parts of this Kingdome, an exceeding great quantitie of the &s;aid light Spani&s;h Moneyes, by rea&s;on that the gaine thereupon is &s;o exce&s;&s;iue; which Moneyes (being here mixed among&s;t his Maie&s;ties proper Coyne,) are pa&s;&s;ed away at the very full value that they were to beare, if they were not defectiue as afore&s;aid: which abu&s;e doeth &s;o farre impoueri&s;h the Receiuers, (being, for the mo&s;t part, of the poorer &s;ort,) and doeth breed &s;uch a generall contention, and di&s;turbance betwixt the Buyer and Seller, and the Creditour and Debtour, as (if the &s;ame &s;hould be long endured) it would breed an in|tollerable inconuenience. His Maie&s;tie therefore being &s;en&s;ible of the lea&s;t grieuance of His louing Subiects, much more of a ca&s;e &s;o much concerning their good, and His owne Honour, Doeth by the&s;e pre&s;ents &s;traitly forbid and prohibite, that any Spani&s;h Mo|neyes of Siluer that are clipped, or otherwi&s;e abated of their true and originall Values, &s;hall be vttered and payed, or accepted and receiued by way of payment within any His Ma|ie&s;ties Dominions, vpon paine of Fine, and impri&s;onment to be inflicted and adiudged by His Highne&s;&s;e Court of Star-chamber, or otherwi&s;e cour&s;e of Law. And doeth further command, That &s;uch defectiue Spani&s;h Moneys be with all conuenient expedition brought into his Highne&s;&s;e Mint in the Lower of London, to be coyned of new into currant Mo|neyes of this Realme, where the Owners &s;hall receiue pre&s;ent payment for &s;ame, accor|ding to their true waight and values in Bullion.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Giuen at our Palace of We&s;tmin&s;ter <DATE>the twentieth day of May, in the eleuenth yeere of Our Reigne of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland.</DATE></DATELINE><LB>
God &s;aue the King.</CLOSER>
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<P>&leaf; Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maie&s;tie.</P>
<P>ANNO 1613.</P>
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