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A46546 A proclamation discharging forraign copper-coyn to be imported or made use of in this kingdom England and Wales. Sovereign (1685-1688 : James II); James II, King of England, 1633-1701. 1686 (1686) Wing J326A; ESTC R18841 869 1

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A PROCLAMATION I 2R DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE Discharging Forraign Copper-Coyn to be Imported or made use of in this Kingdom JAMES by the Grace of GOD King of Great-Britain France and Ireland Defender of the Faith To Our Lyon King at Arms and his Brethren Heraulds Macers of Our Privy Council Pursevants Messengers at Arms Our Sheriffs in that part conjunctly and severally specially constitute Greeting 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 Given under Our Signet at Edinburg the Twentieth Day of May One Thousand Six Hundred Eighty Six Years And of Our Reign the Second Year Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilij WILL. PATERSON Cls. Sti. Concilij GOD Save the KING Edinburgh Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson Printer to His Most Sacred Majesty Anno. Dom. 1686. This may be Reprinted at London R. L. S. May the 28 th 1686. By E. Mallet next Door to Mr. Shipton's Coffee-House near Fleet-Bridge