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<HEAD>PROCLAMATION<LB>
<HI>Anent old Fourteens, and their Halfs, Cobbs, and Fourty Penny-pieces.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>_WILLIAM</HI> by the grace of GOD, King of <HI>Great-Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith,</SIGNED>
<SALUTE>to  <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span">  Macers of Our Privy-Coun|cil, Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, Conjunct|ly and Severally, Specially, con&s;titute, Greeting;</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>For a&s;much as by the Act pa&s;t in the la&s;t Se&s;&s;ion of Our current Parliament, anent the old fourteen &s;hilling pieces and their halfs. It is Statute, That all old four|teen &s;hilling pieces weighing two Drops and twenty &s;even Grains, and their halfs weighing proportionally, &s;hall be received in all Payments at their pre|&s;ent current Rate: and that the other old Fourteens and their halfs under the &s;aid weight, &s;hall pa&s;s in all Payments at the rate of three Pounds four Shil|ling the <HI>Ounce,</HI> being a Groat for the <HI>Drop:</HI> Therefore, and in pur&s;uance of the &s;aid Act of Parliament, and for removing any difficulty that may ari&s;e a|bout the Weight; We with advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, Have declared, and hereby declare and ordain, That the weight at which the &s;aids old Fourteens and their halfs are to pa&s;s, is the <HI>Lanerk</HI> Troy Weight, That is the weight of the Stone and its Fractions, committed to the Cu&s;tody of the Burgh of <HI>Lanerk,</HI> and known to be the Standart of the Weight within this Kingdom, according as the &s;aids Weights are, or &s;hall be marked by the Deans of Guild of the Royal Burrows in the u&s;ual manner: And further, for the better facilitating the Currency of Money, We with advice fore&s;aid, De|clare and Appoint all the pieces of Money, commonly called Cobbs, and their Fractions of whatever kind they be, to pa&s;s without di&s;tinction by Weight, That is &s;uch of them as weigh fourteen <HI>Drop</HI> or above, at the Rate of fifty &s;ix &s;hilling, and &s;uch as weigh le&s;s, at the Rate of four &s;hilling <HI>Scots per Drop</HI> of the fore&s;aid weight of <HI>Lanerk:</HI> And la&s;tly, We with advice fore&s;aid, Ordain all <HI>Scots</HI> fourty penny-pieces, to pa&s;s and Be current in all Payments, at three &s;hilling and &s;ix pennies <HI>per</HI> piece: Certifying &s;uch as &s;hall refu&s;e the &s;aid old Fourteens and their halfs, or the &s;aids Cobbs and their Fractions, or the &s;aids <HI>Scots</HI> fourty penny-pieces, at the Rate above-appointed, they &s;hall be liable in 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 all Judges Ordinary without delay: OUR VVILL IS HEREFORE, and VVe 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 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>Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh</HI> <DATE>the thirty one day of <HI>December,</HI> and of Our Reign the eight Year, 1696.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii.
<HI>GILB: ELIOT</HI>Cls: Sti. Concilii.</SIGNED><LB>
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>Anno DOM.</HI> 1697.</P>
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