Proclamation for crying down the silver Scots crown-piece, and the fourty shilling, twenty shilling, ten shilling, and five shilling Scots pieces to their former rates.

Proclamation for crying down the silver Scots crown-piece, and the fourty shilling, twenty shilling, ten shilling, and five shilling Scots pieces to their former rates. Scotland. Privy Council. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B05652 of text R183510 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing S1860). 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. 3 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 B05652 Wing S1860 ESTC R183510 52529303 ocm 52529303 179075 2240875361

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B05652) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179075) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2776:64) Proclamation for crying down the silver Scots crown-piece, and the fourty shilling, twenty shilling, ten shilling, and five shilling Scots pieces to their former rates. Scotland. Privy Council. Scotland. Sovereign (1694-1702 : William II) 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed by the heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson, Printer to his most excellent Majesty, Edinburgh : Anno Dom. 1696. Caption title. Royal arms at head of text; initial letter. Intentional blank spaces in text. Dated: Given under Our Signet, at Edinburgh, the second day of June, and of Our Reign the eight year, 1696. Signed: Gilb. Eliot, Cls. Sti. Concilii. Reproduction of the original in the National Library of Scotland. eng Coinage -- Law and legislation -- Scotland -- Early works to 1800. Finance, Public -- Law and legislation -- Scotland -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- Scotland -- 17th century. eebo Proclamation : for crying down the silver Scots crown-piece, and the fourty shilling, twenty shilling, ten shilling, and five shilling Scots pieces to Scotland. Privy Council 1696 1 410 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-01 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-03 Elspeth Healey Sampled and proofread 2008-03 Elspeth Healey Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion

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PROCLAMATION For Crying down the Silver Scots Crown-Piece , and the fourty Shilling , twenty Shilling , ten Shilling , and five Shilling Scots Pieces to their former Rates .

WILLIAM by the grace of God , King of Great-Britain , France and Ireland , Defender of the Faith , To _____ Macers of Our Privy Council , Messengers at Arms , Our Sheriffs in that part , Conjunctly , and Severally , Specially , Constitute , Greeting : For as much , as by a Proclamation of the Date the twelfth Day of July , one thousand six hundred ninety five Years , The Rate of the Silver Scots Crown-Piece was raised to three Pound six shilling , and its Fractions proportionally : Which Rates were then judged expedient . But it being now found Just and Reasonable , That the saids Species of Money be Reduced , and should pass at no greater Rate than as they were appointed to pass by the Act of Parliament , one thousand six hundred eighty six ; Ordaining the samen to be Coined . Therefore We with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy-Council , Have thought sit to Cry down the saids Silver Crown Pieces Coined in Scotland , the Fourty Shilling-Piece , Twenty Shilling-Piece , Ten Shilling-Piece , and Five Shilling-Piece to the said former Rate of three Pound , fourty Shilling , twenty Shilling , ten Shilling , and five Shilling respective : And Ordains the samen only to pass at the saids Rates . OUR WILL IS HEREFORE , and We Charge you Strictly , and Command , That incontinent these Our Letters seen , ye pass to the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh , and to the Mercat-Crosses of the remanent Head-Burghs of the several 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 these presents to be Printed .

Given under Out Signet , at Edinburgh , the second Day of June , and of Our Reign the Eight Year , 1696. Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii . GILB . ELIOT , Cls. Sti. Concilii . GOD save the KING .

Edinburgh , Printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson , Printer to his most Excellent Majesty , Anno DOM. 1696.