Proclamation anent copper coyn. Edinburgh, the twenty day of July, 1671.

Proclamation anent copper coyn. Edinburgh, the twenty day of July, 1671. Scotland. Privy Council. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B05493 of text R183362 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing S1629). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 2 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B05493 Wing S1629 ESTC R183362 52612295 ocm 52612295 179599 2240884597

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. B05493) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179599) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2793:71) Proclamation anent copper coyn. Edinburgh, the twenty day of July, 1671. Scotland. Privy Council. Gibson, Alexander, Sir, d. 1693. Scotland. Sovereign (1649-1685 : Charles II) 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed by Evan Tyler, Printer to the King's most excellent Majesty, Edinburgh : Anno Dom. 1671. Caption title. Royal arms at head of text; initial letter. Intentional blank spaces in text. Signed: Al. Gibson. Cls. Reproduction of the original in the National Library of Scotland. eng Coinage -- Law and legislation -- Scotland -- Early works to 1800. Copper coins -- Scotland -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- Scotland -- 17th century. eebo Proclamation anent copper coyn. Edinburgh, the twenty day of July, 1671. Scotland. Sovereign 1671 1 371 0 0 0 0 1 0 269.54 F The rate of 269.54 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2008-10 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-12 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2009-06 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2009-06 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-09 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion

C R HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE royal blazon or coat of arms PROCLAMATION ANENT COPPER COYN . EDINBVRGH , the twenty day of July , 1671. CHARLES by the Grace of God , King of Great Britain , France and Ireland , defender of the Faith . To Macers , or Messengers at Arms , Our Sheriffs in that part , conjunctly and severally , specially constitute , greeting :

Forasmuch as the Lords of Our Privy Council , by their Proclamation of the date the twenty fourth of April , 1662. did prohibite the Importation of these pieces of Copper Coyn , called the French Double , or Doits , or other forraign Copper Money into this Kingdom : Notwithstanding whereof , considerable quantities of the saids Doits have been of late Imported , and do ordinarily pass at a rate above the true worth and value thereof , to the great prejudice of our Leidges . Therefore We , with advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council , do hereby prohibite and discharge all persons whatsoever , in time coming , to Import into this Kingdom any Doits , or other forraign Copper Coyn , under the pain of confiscation of the same , and of the Ships and Bottoms wherein they are Imported , by and attour such further punishment as Our Privy Council shall think fit to inflict upon the Importers . And We discharge the saids Doits , or any forraign Copper Coyn , either already Imported , or that shall be Imported hereafter , to pass , or be current within this Our Kingdom , at any rates . And commands and requires the Collectors or Farmers of Our Customs , and their Deputs , Magistrats of Burghs , and others in Authority where Sea-ports are , to seize upon any forraign Copper Money which shall be Imported , and to confiscat the same for Our use . And Ordains these presents to be printed and published at the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh , and other places needful , that none pretend ignorance .

Al. Gibson Cls.

EDINBVRGH , Printed by Evan Tyler , Printer to the King 's most Excellent Majesty . Anno DOM. 1671.