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<NAME>John Pas</NAME>
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<DIV1 TYPE="proclamation">
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<FIGDESC>James II's arms</FIGDESC>
<Q>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
<Q>DIEV ET MON DROIT</Q>
</FIGURE> BY THE KING.</HEAD>
<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>JAMES R.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<P>VVHEREAS We are informed that &s;everal covetous per&s;ons, who have a greater regard for their own private intere&s;t than for the publick good, have given of late intolerable rates for <HI>Gold</HI> and <HI>Silver,</HI> and continue their &s;aid &s;ini&s;ter practices, to the great di&s;paragement of the Bra&s;s and Copper Money now current in this Our Kingdom; For prevention whereof, We have thought fit, by the Advice of Our Privy-Council, to Charge and Command, and We do hereby &s;trictly Charge and Command all Our Subjects of what rank or condition &s;oever within this Our Kingdom, that they or any of them do not hereafter pre&s;ume, upon pain of death, to give any higher or greater rate for any <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">i&s;tole or French Louis of Gold than thirty &s;hillings in Bra&s;s or Copper Money, and &s;o in proportion for any other piece of French or Spani&s;h Gold; nor for any piece called a Guinea-piece of Gold more than thirty eight &s;hillings of Bra&s;s or Copper Money, and &s;o in proportion for any other piece of Engli&s;h Gold; nor for any Crown-piece of Silver more than &s;even &s;hillings and &s;ix pence of Bra&s;s or Copper Money, and &s;o in proportion for any other piece of Silver. And We do hereby further Publi&s;h and Declare, that who&s;oever &s;hall di&s;cover any per|&s;on or per&s;ons that &s;hall offend again&s;t this Our Ordinance, he &s;hall upon making out the &s;ame have for his reward, and to his own u&s;e, all the Gold and Silver &s;o by him made out to have been &s;old or exchanged by any per&s;on or per&s;ons what&s;oever above the rates herein pre&s;cribed, and contrary to this Our Royal Proclamation. And We do further &s;trictly Charge and Com|mand all Our Iudges, Iu&s;tices, Magi&s;trates, Iu&s;tices of the Peace, all Sheriffs, and other Our Officers both Civil and Military, to take particu|lar care that the per&s;ons who &s;hall tran&s;gre&s;s in the matters afore&s;aid, be brought to condign puni&s;hment, as they and every of them &s;hall an&s;wer the contrary at their peril.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given at Our Court at Our Ca&s;tle of <HI>Dublin</HI></HI> <DATE><HI>the 15th day of <HI>June</HI></HI> 1690. <HI>And in the &s;ixth year of Our Reign.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God Save the King.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>D&V;BLIN,</HI> Printed for Alderman <HI>James Malone</HI> Printer to the King's Mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty; and are to be &s;old at his <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"></P>
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