Forasmuch as We Understanding that there are Copper-Coyn , Imported from Abroad , and passing in this Our Kingdom , which is a great abuse to the Nation , and prejudice to Our Mint : We therefore , with Advice of Our Privy Council , for preventing thereof , Do hereby strictly Prohibit and Discharge , all Merchants , Skippers , Marriners and others , To Import into this Kingdom , after Publication hereof , any Doyts , or other Copper-Coyn , from France , Holland , or any place from Abroad , under the pain of , Consiscation thereof , the one half to Our Use , and the other half to the Discoverer , or Informer , besides what other Punishment We , or Our Council shall think fit to inflict upon the Contraveeners . And further , We Do hereby Prohibit and Discharge the foresaid Doyts , or other Copper-Coyn , from France , or Holland , or any Copper-Coyn , but what is under Our Royal Stamp , to pass within this Kingdom hereafter , or any of Our Subjects to receive the same as Coyn , as they will be answerable : And hereby Authorize , and Require all Customers , Waiters , Collectors and others , To seize upon , and appropriat to their own use , any of the said Forraign Copper-Coyn , where ever they can find , or discover the same ; Requiring all Magistrates , Officers and Souldiers of Our Forces , to be concurring and assisting hereto , when required , as they will answer at their Perril ; And to the end Our Pleasure in the Premisses may be made Notour and Known ; Our Will is , and We Charge you strictly , and Command , That incontinent , These Our Letters seen , ye pass to the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh , and other places needful , and there , in Our Royal Name and Authority , by open Proclamation , make Publication of the Premisses , that none pretend ignorance .