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Rh ſterling. In 1680 they ſent an addreſs to the king, in conſequence of which, by proclamation in 1683, he fixed the value of French crowns, rix-dollars and pieces of eight at ſix ſhillings, and the coin of New-England at one ſhilling. That in 1710, 1714, 1727, and 1762, other regulations were made, which will be better preſented to the eye ſtated in the form of a table as follows: