ACT
Anent
the
old
Fourteen
Shilling
Pieces
and
their
halfs
.
Edinburgh
,
12
October
.
1696.
O●R
SOVERAIGN
LORD
,
with
Advice
and
Consent
of
the
Estates
of
Parliament
,
for
removing
the
difficultie
arising
to
Commerce
,
by
the
deficiency
of
the
Weight
of
the
old
Fourteen
and
Seven
Shilling
Pieces
,
the
most
part
,
if
not
all
of
them
being
worn
by
use
and
length
of
time
,
below
the
Legal
Standart
of
Coyn
within
this
Kingdom
:
Statutes
and
Ordains
and
Enacts
,
that
all
old
Fourteen
Shilling
Pieces
weighting
two
Drops
and
twenty
seven
Grains
,
and
their
halfs
weighting
proportionally
,
shall
be
received
at
the
present
currant
Rate
,
in
all
Payments
whatsomever
;
as
also
,
that
all
the
other
old
Fourteens
and
their
halfs
,
under
the
said
Weight
,
shall
pass
in
all
Payments
at
the
Rate
of
Three
Pound
Four
Shilling
the
Ounce
,
being
a
Groat
for
the
Drop
.
And
His
Majesty
,
with
consent
foresaid
,
Ordains
the
saids
Pieces
to
pass
,
and
be
received
at
the
Rate
and
Weight
above-appointed
,
under
the
pain
of
the
double
of
what
shall
be
refused
,
to
be
summarly
exacted
at
the
instance
,
and
for
the
use
of
the
offerer
,
by
all
Judges
Ordinary
:
And
ordains
all
the
Inferior
Species
under
the
said
Seven
Shilling
Pieces
,
to
pass
as
formerly
.
Extracted
forth
of
the
Records
of
Parliament
by
me
Alexander
Gibson
,
one
of
the
Principal
Clerks
of
Session
,
as
having
Commission
from
Charles
Earl
of
Selkirk
,
Clerk
to
His
Majesties
Council
,
Registers
and
Rolls
.
AL.
GIBSON
.