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HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE  
dieu ET MON DROIT   
By The KING,  
A PROCLAMATION.  
JAMES R.  
WHEREAS for remedy of the present scarcity of Money in this Our Kingdom, and that Our standing Forces may be the better paid and subsisted, and that Our Subjects of this Realm may be the better enabled to pay and discharge the Taxes, Excise, Customs, Rents, and other debts and duties which are or shall be hereafter payable to us; We have ordered a certain quantity of Copper and Brass Money to be coined to pass currant in this Our Kingdom during Our pleasure, in six penny pieces; each piece having of one side the Effigies or Figure of Our Head, with this Inscription round, Jacobus II Dei gratia, and upon the other side, the stamp or impression of across sceptres and a Crown, between, J. R. with VI. above, the month wherein they are coined below, with this Inscription round, Mag. Brit. Fran.& Hiber. Rex. 1689. and fringed round, each of the said pieces to be of the metal of Copper and Brass. All which pieces of Money, We have thought fit, by the advice of Our Privy Council, to make currant Money within this our Kingdom. We do therefore hereby Publish and Declare by the advice aforesaid, that the said pieces of Copper and Brass coined, or hereafter to be coined by Our said Order, marked and stamped as aforesaid, shall pass during Our Pleasure, as currant Money amongst all Our Subjects within this Realm, and in all payments to be made either to us or from us, or to or from any of Our Subjects within this Kingdom, according to the Rates following; that is to say, each of the said pieces called six penny pieces, marked and stamped as aforesaid, to pass for six pence; the said pieces to pass at the rates aforesaid in all payments, excepting the duties of Customs and Excise upon the importation of foreign Goods into this Kingdom, Money left in trust or keeping with any person, and excepting mortgages, and debts now due by Record, or by Bills, Bonds, or Obligations, and that the same shall also pass currant at the Rates aforesaid, for the interest which hereafter shall fall due for such Mortgages and Debts due by Records, Bills, Bonds or Obligations, and likewise for any of the said Principal debts so secured where the debtor or his Goods are or shall be taken in Execution for the same, and We do hereby Strictly Charge and Command all and every of Our Subjects of this kingdom to take& receive in all Payments to be made to them( excepting as aforesaid) the said Pieces of Money according to the Rates aforesaid, hereby declaring that such of Our Subjects within this Kingdom as shall Refuse to Receive the said Pieces of Copper and Brass money at the Rates aforesaid( excepting as aforesaid) being tendered to them for payment shall be Punished according to the utmost Rigour of the Law, as Contemners of Our Royal Prerogative and Command, Provided always that this Our Proclamation shall not be Construed, to oblige any Merchant or Merchants, Importing any Goods into this Kingdom to Receive upon the first Sale of such Goods so Imported any of the said Copper or Brass money: And whereas We have caused the said Copper and Brass money to be made currant money for present Necessity, and therefore do not intend that the same shall continue for any long time. We do by this Our Royal Proclamation Promise and Engage to all our Subjects here, that as soon as the said money shall be Decried and made Null, that we shall thereupon receive from all and Every Our Subjects within this Kingdom such Proportion of the said money as shall be, and remain in their respective hands at the time the same shall be so Decried and made voided; and at the same time either allow for the same to them the Value thereof at the Rates aforesaid, Out of what Rent, Duties or Debts they respectively shall owe to us, or make them full satisfaction for the same according the Rates aforesaid, in Gold or Silver of the Currant coin of this Kingdom.  
Given at Our Court at Dublin Castle the 18th day of June, 1689. And in the fifth year of Our Reign. God Save the King.   

DUBLIN, Printed by Andrew Crook and Samuel Helsham Assigns of Benjamin took Printer to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty; and are to be Sold at the Kings Printinghouse on Ormonde-Key, and the Colledge-Arms in Castle-street. 1689.