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[See Westfall, 754, on the ramifications of this in the context of Newton's power struggle with warden Craven Peyton.]
Suggests that the £400 p.a. now allocated to the warden for such payments would be better vested in the master to advance to the warden on due occasion.
That it doth not app upon examining Mr Smithson's ts
it doth not appear to us that any money is due to him for
prosecuting by Order of the Warden of the Mint.
That Mr Newton is of opinion that for encouraging those
that prosecute under the Warden it would have been better
that l had been
imprested to er
advance to e
money for that service upon receipts for the same & be
discharged in his Acc yearly ts bts
r
at his house in Iermyn
street.
Westminster.