HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT  
 PROCLAMATION For Crying down the Silver Scots Crown-Piece, and the forty Shilling, twenty Shilling, ten Shilling, and five Shilling Scots Pieces to their former Rates.  
WILLIAM by the grace of God, King of Great-Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, To _____ Macers of Our Privy Council, Messengers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, Conjunctly, and Severally, Specially, Constitute, Greeting: For as much, as by a Proclamation of the Date the twelfth Day of July, one thousand six hundred ninety five Years, The Rate of the Silver Scots Crown-Piece was raised to three Pound six shilling, and its Fractions proportionally: Which Rates were then judged expedient. But it being now found Just and Reasonable, That the said's Species of Money be Reduced, and should pass at no greater Rate than as they were appointed to pass by the Act of Parliament, one thousand six hundred eighty six; Ordaining the samen to be Coined. Therefore We with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy-Council, Have thought sit to Cry down the saids Silver Crown Pieces Coined in Scotland, the Forty Shilling-Piece, Twenty Shilling-Piece, Ten Shilling-Piece, and Five Shilling-Piece to the said former Rate of three Pound, forty Shilling, twenty Shilling, ten Shilling, and five Shilling respective: And Ordains the samen only to pass at the said's Rates. OUR WILL IS HEREFORE, and We Charge you Strictly, and Command, That incontinent these Our Letters seen, ye pass to the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh, and to the Mercat-Crosses of the remanent Head-Burghs of the several Shires, and Stewartries within this Kingdom, and there in Our Name and Authority, by open Proclamation, make Intimation hereof, that none pretend Ignorance; and Ordains these presents to be Printed.  
Given under Out Signet, at Edinburgh, the second Day of June, and of Our Reign the Eight Year, 1696. Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. GILB. ELIOT, Cls. Sti. Concilii.  
GOD save the KING.   

Edinburgh, Printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson, Printer to his most Excellent Majesty, Anno DOM. 1696.