BY THE KING.  
A Proclamation for making currant certain French Coin.  
WHereas the Kings most Excellent Majesty for the Portion of his dear Consort the Queen, hath lately received some good sums of money of the Coin of France, which His Majesty gave order should have been new stamped and coined in his Highness' Mint within the Tower of London, but by reason of the infection of the Plague in and about the City of London, which hath also taken hold of many of the Workmen in the Myat, the same cannot be so speedily performed as His Majesty's most public and pressing occasions, especially the furnishing of His Royal Fleet and Army do require. His Majesty upon mature deliberation with His Privy Council, hath found it necessary to make use of the said Coin in Specie as he received it from his good Brother the French King. And to that end and purpose doth hereby publish and declare, That the silver Coin of France called the Cardecu shallbe from henceforth currant within His Majesty's Dominions at the value of Nineteen pence half penny, being the selfsame value at which it is currant in the Country of France. Nevertheless for avoiding of such inconvenience as might ensue to his Highness and his loving Subjects by bringing in and uttering light Coin, His Majesty doth straightly forbid, That no person or persons do at any time hereafter import into this Realm, or any His Majesty's Dominions any of the said Coin called Cardecues upon pain of confiscation of the coin so to be imported: the one moiety thereof to His Majesty, & the other moiety to him that shall seize the same. And doth also straightly charge all Customers, Comptrollers, Searchers, and other Officers of His Highness' Ports, to make diligent search and seizure of all such Coin as shall be imported contrary to His Majesty's Royal Proclamation.  
Given at the Court at Tichfeld the fourth day of September, in the first year of His Majesty's Reign of Great Britain, France, and Ireland. 
 God save the King.   

Printed at Oxford by I.L. and W.T. for Bonham Norton and john Bill, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty. 1625.