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A66188 By the King, a proclamation William R. England and Wales. Sovereign (1694-1702 : William III); William III, King of England, 1650-1702. 1695 (1695) Wing W2429; ESTC R233849 970 1

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W R DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE By the King A PROCLAMATION WILLIAM R. WHereas the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Knights Citizens and Burgesses in Parliament Assembled Having taken into their serious Consideration the great Mischiefs which this Our Kingdom lies under by reason that the Coin which Passes in Payment is generally Clipped And they being of Opinion that the most Effectual way to put a Stop to this Evil is to Prevent the Currency thereof as soon as We in Our Wisdom should think fit have severally by their humble Addresses besought Vs to Issue Our Royal Proclamation in that behalf And We being deeply Sensible of the great Prejudice which Our good Subjects undergo by such Diminution of the Current Coins and being very desirous to Apply a Speedy and Suitable Remedy thereto Have thought fit to Declare and Command and by and with the Advice of Out Privy Council We do by this Our Royal Proclamation Declare and Command That from and after the First Day of January next Ensuing no Clipped Crowns or Half-Crowns shall pass in any Payment except only to the Collectors and Receivers of Our Revenues and Taxes or upon Loans or Payments into Our Exchequer And that from and after the Third Day of February next Ensuing no Clipped Crowns or Half-Crowns shall Pass in any Payment whatsoever within Our City of London or within Forty Miles Distance of the same And that from and after the Two and twentieth Day of the said Month of February no Clipped Crowns or Half-Crowns shall Pass or be Current in any Payment whatsoever within Our Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed And We do hereby Declare and Command That from and after the Thirteenth Day of February next no Piece of Money called Shillings Clipped within the Ring shall Pass in any Payment except only to the Collectors and Receivers of Our Revenues and Taxes or upon Loans or Payments into Our Exchequer And that from and after the Second Day of March next no such Shillings Clipped within the Ring shall Pass in any Payment whatsoever And We do also hereby Declare and Command That from and after the said Second Day of March next no other Money whatsoever Clipped within the Ring shall Pass in any Payment except only to the Collectors and Receivers of Our Revenues and Taxes or upon Loans or Payments into Our Exchequer And that from and after the Second Day of April next no such Money Clipped within the Ring shall Pass in any Payment whatsoever Given at Our Court at Kensington the Nineteenth Day of December 1695. In the Seventh Year of Our Reign God save the King London Printed by Charles Bill and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb deceas'd Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 1695.