PROCLAMATION Anent Fourty-Penny-Pieces.  
Edinburgh 20. September 1699.  
FOrasmuch as by Proclamation of the Lords of His Majesty's Privy Council of the date the 9th December 1697, All the lieges are Required and Commanded to Pass and Receive in Payments of all Sorts the Fourty-Penny-Pieces, of the Coin and Mint of this Kingdom, at three shilling six pennies Scots Money, how Bare soever and worn by Use the samen be, if the Print and Vestige of the Coin of this Kingdom be visible upon them, and thereby, discharged any of the lieges to refuse the said's Scots Fourty-penny-pieces at the Rate of three shilling six pennies, under the pain of being liable to pay the double of what they refuse to the Party who offered the same to be discerned immediately without any Process, and exacted from the Refuser by any Magistrate within this Kingdom, in favours and to the behoof of them from whom any of the said's Fourty-penny-pieces are refused: And the Lord Provost, Bailies and Council of this City being resolved to see the said Act of Privy Council inviolably observed within the samen, and Privileges thereof. These are therefore, In His Majesty's Name and Authority, and in Name and Authority of the Right Honourable the Lord Provost, Bailies and Council of this City, Commanding & Requiring all His Majesty's Liedges within the samen, and Privileges thereof, to Pass and Receive in payments of all Sorts the said's Fourty-pennie-pieces at the rate foresaid, in the Terms and under the pains contained in the foresaid proclamation. And ordains their presents to be published as use is, and printed, that none may pretend Ignorance.  
Extracted by GEORGE HOME  
GOD Save the King   

Edinburgh, printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson, printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, City and College 1699.