By the King, a proclamation. William R. Whereas by Our Royal proclamation, bearing date on the nineteenth day of December last, we did declare and command, that from and after the several and respective days therein for that purpose mentioned, no clipped crowns or half crowns not shillings, or other money, clipped within the ring, should pass or be current in any payments, except only to the receivers or collectors of our revenues and taxes, or upon loans or payments into our exchequer: ...

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Dated at end: the fourth day of January 1695/6. In the seventh year of Our Reign. Steele notation: December, reason, or. Reproduction of the original in the Goldsmiths' Library.