Selected quad for the lemma: kingdom_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	council_n	france_n	king_n	1,879	5	3.7795	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B05646	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)	1697 (1697)	Wing S1846; ESTC R183505	1,073	1

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.