The Mercat Cross

To all whom these presents shall come, greeting!

Charles by the grace of God, King of England, Scotland,
France and Ireland, &c; Whereas Wee have been informed
by the complaint of divers of Our poore Subjects.......

So might start a Royal Proclamation during the reign of Charles II in the era when this, the Mercat Cross of Peebles was embellished with sundials and weather vane. At the Mercat Cross Proclamations were read, business transacted, and criminals punished.