Another, rougher holograph draft of MINT00377 (Mint 19/3/78)

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/3/204, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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<204r>

To the Right Honourable the Earl of Godolphin Lord High Treasurer of great Britain

May it please your Lordship

In obedience to your Lordships Order signified to us by M^r Taylour the 28^th of this Instant, that we should consider the matter conteined in an Abstract of a memorial which your Lordship has received from Scotland relating to the Mint & Recoynage of the Moneys there & Report to your Lordship our opinion what is fit to be done therein we humbly represent that All the things which were desired in the Schedule & letter formerly sent from the Mint in Scotland were provided & the some of them sent in a shop which arrived at Edinburgh in Iuly & the rest were put on board another ship five or six weeks ago, and that upon the three Moneyers sent from hence to Edinburgh, upon their arrival there, taking a survey of that Mint & finding some things still wanting a new schedule was drawn up of what they further wanted & two copies thereof sent by D^r Gregory the one to Sir David Nairn the other to the Master & Worker of this Mint & the Master & Worker upon discovering The Matter which Sir David left it to Sir David move your Lordship for a general order for providign the things desired & gave order immediately for providing the same with all due dispatch, that no time might be lost. And we further represent that in the said new schedule besides the Cutter mentioned in the abstract, there are two Flatting Engins, & one sixpenny Press set down as wanting for the use of the Moneyers, all which tools since they are not yet in that Mint we humbly conceive necessary to be sent from hence & they are preparing & will cost about 120 pounds sterling. And we represent also that the Puncheons for the crowns & halfs crowns were made but failed in the hardening & new ones are making. And that in the said Schedule the Assaymaster desires a new Assay-ballance & the Graver desires puncheons for the small arms & letters, & they are providing & will not cost much. And that, if your Lordship pleases, all these things shall {be} sent as soon as they can be got ready, which as we reccon will be before the 10^th of the next month.

And we are further humbly of opinion that Order may be given for paying to the proper Officer of that Mint & by that Officer to the persons imployed in the meltings & coynage, such summs of moneys as shal from time to time become due to them upon contract for that service & that the Officers of that Mitn do lay before their superiors to be transmitted to your Lordship the most proper method of doing it suitably to the contracts made & to the present constitution of their Mint.