By the King. A proclamation for restraining the payment of the moneys lately called in, to His Majesties use, any longer then until the first of March next.

Author: England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II)2016-02

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‘HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE’‘DIEV ET MON DROIT’

A PROCLAMATION For Restraining the Payment of the Moneys lately called in, to His Majesties use, any longer then until the First of March next.

By the King.

CHARLES R.

WHereas by Our late Proclamation of the Seventh of December last, We did declare, That it should be lawful for any person and persons, which before the First day of May then and now next coming, should pay or deliver any sum or sums of Money for the use of Vs, Our Heirs and Successors, for, and in respect of the Free or Voluntary Present, or any Rent, Custom, Excise, Tax, or any other Duty, to pay, send, or deliver the same, or so much thereof, as they shall think fit, in the Moneys lately called in, Stampt with the Cross and Harp, and the Circumscription (The Commonwealth of England) into any Our Publick Receipts, where the same should be received as any other Moneys, that are current within this Our Realm. But We being informed that the said Moneys called in, as aforesaid, since Our said Proclamation, have been and are frequently counterfeited, and that many other inconveniences do and may ensue, by, and in the time limited for the payment thereof to Our use, until the First of May next; and that for prevention thereof, it is necessary the time be retrenched, We therefore have thought fit, by, and with the Advice of Our Privy Council, to publish and declare, and hereby do publish and declare, That no part of the said Moneys so called in as aforesaid, shall continue current, or be paid or payable to, or between all or any of Our Subjects at any time hereafter: And that the same shall not continue payable to, or for the use of Vs, Our Heirs and Successors, for, or in respect of any Rent, Custom, Excise, Tax, or any other Duties, but onely until the First day of March now next coming, and no longer, the said former Proclamation, or any thing therein contained to the contrary notwithstanding. And We do hereby further publish and declare, That if any person or persons, during the time aforesaid, shall presume to Wash, Clip, File, Counterfeit, or otherwise abuse any of the said Moneys so called in as aforesaid, That then all and every such Offenders shall be proceeded against according to the Laws and Statutes of this Our Realm.

Given at Our Court at Whitehal, the three and twentieth day of January, in the Thirteenth year of Our Reign, 1661.

GOD SAVE THE KING.

LONDON, Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker, Printers to the KING'S most Excellent Majesty. 1661.

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