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A PROCLAMATION For Opening the Mint.  
JAMES, by the Grace of GOD, King of Great-Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith; To Our Lion King at Arms, an● his Brethren Heralds, Macers of Our Privy Council, Pursuivants, o● Messengers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and severally, specially constitute, Greeting:  
Forasmuch as W● 〈…〉 That Our Mint should be Op●ned, and that a free Coinage should 〈◊〉 therein, conform to an Act made and passed in the last Session of the lat● Parliament of this Our Kingdom; Do I herefore, with Advice of Our Privy Council, Hereby Declare Our Mint-House to be Opened, from and after the first Tuesday of May next to come, and no sooner: And to the End, That all Merchants and others may be Certiorated of the Time of the Opening of Our said Mint, and of Our having Signed a Warrant for Coinage, of the date the fourteenth day of August last bypast, for the several Speciesses of the Silver Coin, conform to the foresaid Act of Parliament, seeing We are Resolved to begin with that Coin: Our Will is, and We Charge you strictly and Command, that incontinent these Our Letters seen, ye pass to the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh, and remanent Mercat-Crosses of the Head-Burghs of the Shires of this Kingdom, and there, by open Proclamation, make publication of Our Royal Will and Pleasure, concerning the Opening of Our said Mint, from, and after the said first Tuesday of Ma● next ensuing, that all persons concerned may have notice thereof.  
Given under Our Signet at Edinburgh, the Twentieth day of January, 1687. And of Our Reign the second year. Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. WILL. PATERSON, Cls. Sti. Concilii. 
 GOD save the KING.   

Edinburgh, Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson, Printer to His most Sacred Majesty, Anno DOM. 1687.