Forasmuch as W [...] [...] That Our Mint should be Op [...]ned, and that a free Coynage should [...] therein, conform to an Act made and past in the last Session of the lat [...] Parliament of this Our Kingdom; Do I herefore, with Advice of Our Privy Council, Hereby Declare Our Mint-House to be Opened, from and after the first Tuesday of May next to come, and no sooner: And to the End, That all Merchants and others may be Certiorated of the Time of the Opening of Our said Mint, and of Our having Signed a Warrand for Coynage, of the date the fourteenth day of August last by-past, for the several Speciesses of the Silver Coyn, conform to the foresaid Act of Parliament, seing We are Resolved to begin with that Coyn: Our Will is, and VVe Charge you strictly and Command, that incontinent these Our Letters seen, ye pass to the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh, and remanent Mercat-Crosses of the Head-Burghs of the Shires of this Kingdom, and there, by open Proclamation, make publication of Our Royal VVill and Pleasure, concerning the Opening of Our said Mint, from, and after the said first Tuesday of Ma [...] next ensuing, that all persons concerned may have notice thereof.