6), largely struck through

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/3/7, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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Fol 4. lin 23 & Fol 19 lin 14 for Wardens & Comptroller, write Warden & Counter Warden or Comptroller.

Fol. 13 lin 10 his duty.

Fol 14 lin 10 for containing write not exceeding.

Fol. 18 lin. 6 Quære whether it be not better to strike out the words And that he will make such deliverance within the space of sixty days after the receipt of the Bullion to be coined.

Fol. 19 lin 7 strike out the caluse: And the said Master is hereby appointed ... in the said Schedule.

Fol. 20 lin 22 let the clause run as in the Indenture of the Mint in the Tower.

Fol. 8 Delete lin 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 & 14 to the words, in fineness thereby were made by direction of her Majesty. If not, the trial-pieces made the order of James may be inserted.

Fol 24 lin 8. The Office & salary of the Clerk of the Bullion is ceased & ought not to be named in the Schedule. If he would be Weigher & Teller he must get a Patent for the place. And then his Office with the Salary may be inserted in the Schedule of this or the next Indenture. But it must be inserted in general terms without naming him.

Ib. l. 25. The Comptroller is Surveyor of the meltings by his place & is called by that name in the body of the Indenture. And the Master of the Mint or his deputy receives & delivers by weight

Ib. l 30, 31, 32. The three Clerks with Salaries of 40^li per annum were instituted since the Vnion for carrying on the recoinage & were not designed to be perpetal. And if they be continued the salaries of the Counterwarden & Queens Clerk ought to be augmented the first to 80^li the other to 50^li or 60^li per that they may be proportionat to the superior dignity & duty of their places.

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NB By the Attorney General's Report the charge of Coynage is to be paid out of the excess of the 1200^li above the salaries, & by my Lord Treasurer's order a new Indenture is to be drawn in which the salaries are to be continued as at the union. And at the Vnion the salaries were as follows to the General 300^l. To the Master 200^li to the principal Warden 150^li. To the Counterwarden or Comptroller 60^li. To the Assaymaster 100^li. To the Sinker or Graver 50^li. To the Queens Clerk & Clerk of the Papers & irons 40^li to the master Smith 30^li. These salaries amounting to 930^li & the repairs of the buildings which will amount to about 80 or 90^li per annum being deducted from the 1200 per annum leaves but 180 or 190^li per annum for defraying all the charges of coinage.