Proclamation for calling down the French three-sous-pieces to three shillings Scots, and appointing the Scots fourtie-pennie-pieces to pass at three shilling six pennies Scots per piece. Scotland. Privy Council. 1697 Approx. 4 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2009-03 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). B05646 Wing S1846 ESTC R183505 52529302 ocm 52529302 179073 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B05646) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179073) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2776:62) Proclamation for calling down the French three-sous-pieces to three shillings Scots, and appointing the Scots fourtie-pennie-pieces to pass at three shilling six pennies Scots per piece. Scotland. Privy Council. Scotland. Sovereign (1694-1702 : William II) 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed by the heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson, Printer to the Kings most excellent Majesty, Edinburgh : Anno Dom. 1697. Caption title. Initial letter. Intentional blank spaces in text. Dated: Given under Our Signet at Edinburgh the ninth day of December, and of Our Reign the ninth year, 1697. Signed: Gilb. Eliot. Cls. Sti. Concilii. Reproduction of the original in the National Library of Scotland. Created by converting TCP files to TEI P5 using tcp2tei.xsl, TEI @ Oxford. 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Finance, Public -- Law and legislation -- Scotland -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- Scotland -- 17th century. 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 PROCLAMATION For calling down the French Three-Sons-Pieces to Three shillings Scots , and Appointing the Scots Fourtie-pennie-pieces to pass at Three shilling six pennies Scotsper Piece . 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 Armes , Our Sheriffs in that Part , conjunctly and severally , specially , constitute Greeting ; FORASMUCHAS , The Subjects , & interest of this Our Antient Kingdom do sustain a great & growing Prejudice , by the inbringing great Quantities of the small French Money called the three Sous piece , and passing the same at three Shilling six Pennies Scots a rate far above their true Worth and Value ; And that several of Our Leidges does Scruple and Demur to receive in Payments the Fourty Penny Pieces Coined and Minted within this Kingdom by Our Predecessors at the Rate of three Shilling six Pennies Scots , upon pretence that they are Bare and Worn through Use , albeit the Print and Vestige of the Coine of this Kingdom be visible upon them : Therefore , and for remeed of the Fonesaids Abuses , We with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council , Do hereby Prohibite and Discharge the small French Money called the three Sous Piece , which heretofore passed at three Shilling six Pennies Scots , to pass for hereafter , or be offered in Payments , but at the rate of three Shilling Scots only , and to be received at no higher Rate or Value by any of Our Leidges : Ordaining and Commanding , nevertheless , the French Crown to pass at fifty eight shilling Scots , with its half and Quarter proportionally as before : And farder We with advice foresaid Require and Command all Our Leidges to Pass and receave in payments of all Sorts , the fourty Penny Pieces of the Coine and Mint of this Kingdom , at three Shilling six Pennies Scots Money how bare soever and Worne by use the famen be , if the Print and Vestige of the Coine of this Kingdom be visible upon them ; Discharging hereby any of Our Leidges to refuse the saids Scots fourty Penny Pieces , at the Rate of three Shilling six Pennie , under the pain of being lyable to pay the Double of what they refuse to the Party who offered the same , which is immediatly without any Process to be decerned and exacted from the Refuser by any Magistrat within this Kingdom in Favours and to the behove of him from whom any of the said fourty Penny Pieces is refused . OUR WILL IS HEREFORE , And We Charge you strictly and Commands , that incontinent these Our Letters seen ye pass to the Mercat Cross of Edinburgh , and to the remanent Mercat Crosses of the 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 may pretend Ignorance , And ordains these Presents to be Printed . Given under Our Signet at Edinburgh the ninth Day of December , And of Our Reign the ninth Year , 1697 . 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 the Kings most Excellent Majesty , Anno Dom. 1697.