<323r>

To the Rt Honble the Lords of the Committee of Councill appointed to consider of his Majts Coronation.

May it please yor Lordps

In obedience to yor Lordps Order that I should lay before yor Lordps an account of the Mer{illeg}amber of Medals made upon the last Coronation & of the time requisite to make Medals upon the present occasion: I most humbly represent that twelve hundred Medals of silver & three hundred of gold were then made by Order of Councill & delivered to the Treasurer of the Houshold to be distributed at the Coronation, & that \upon their Majts order Queens Order signified {illeg}|b|y the Ld Treasurers Warrant/ five hundred & fifteen Medals of gold were made afterwards |[|by the Lord Treasurers Warrant|]| for the House of Commons then sitting & delivered to their Speaker, |&| forty more for forreign Ministers \of gold/ were delivered to my Ld C{illeg}|h|amberlain, whereof those whereof those for the Agents & Consuls\for f{illeg}|o|rreign Ministers/. A pound weight of f{illeg} fine Gold was cut into 20 Medals & a pound wt of fine silver into 22 Medalls. {illeg}|Bu|t the forreign Ministers (except the Agents & Consuls) had Medals of double the value. /At ye Coron. of K Wm there were only 200 medals of made by {illeg}|Ord|er of Council.\

After the form of the Medalls & of his Majts Effigies is setled, it will take up about a Calendar month to make the Puncheons & three or four days more to make the Dyes & coyne the Medalls by the Mill & Press And if either of the Puncheons should break \as it sometimes happens/ it would take up{illeg} a fortnight more to repair the loss. |The Coyna{illeg}|g|e| /Duty being appropriated, there should be money appropriated advanced {Out}\ |T{illeg} \out of the civil List for/ for buying & .|

If the Impression {illeg}|i|s to rise high{,} like that of the {late} Medalls made upon the \late/ peace, they|\medalls/| must be coyned in a ring, & to Make the Puncheons & Dyes & coyne 15 hundred sill require {se} |medalls| \of this sort will/ take up six weeks {illeg} & if either of ye puncheons should {illeg}|b|reak it would take up two months. And the impression\medalls/ much be weightier to make that the{ir}|re| may be substance to make the Impression rise high. Sixteen Medalls of this sort would will require a pound weight of fine gold, & twenty a pound weight of fine silver.

© 2024 The Newton Project

Professor Rob Iliffe
Director, AHRC Newton Papers Project

Scott Mandelbrote,
Fellow & Perne librarian, Peterhouse, Cambridge

Faculty of History, George Street, Oxford, OX1 2RL - newtonproject@history.ox.ac.uk

Privacy Statement

  • University of Oxford
  • Arts and Humanities Research Council
  • JISC