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To the RtRight HonbleHonourable the Lord High Treasurer
of England.
May it please yoryour LordpLordship
In obedience to yoryour LopsLordship Order of the 3d instant we have
considered the annexed Inventory therewith sent us of Tools & other ne
cessaries proposed to be provided in London for the use of her MajtiesMajesties
Mint in Scotland, & have here set down the prizes of such of them as seem
to us proper & necessary to be furnished for the said Mint, supposing they
are not already in that Mint & cannot be had cheaper from other places
then from London.
For the Office of Receipt. |
li | s |
One Pyle of standard weights |
2. | 10 |
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One set of Bell-weights for gold |
2. | 99 |
One set of Bell-weights for silver |
4. | 10 |
Two sets of penny weights, coyn-weights & grains |
0. | 09 |
li | s | d |
One paid of gold-scales for weighing 15lwt of gold wchwhich we call a journey of gold |
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4. | 00 |
35. | 09. | 00 |
If a pair of scales be wanting for weighing 60lwt of silver, wchwhich we call a journey of silver, they will cost |
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10. | 00 |
Two books of Vellum, suppose of 80 leaves each, at 18d a skin or leaf
will cost 12li. They are not absolutely necessary. We use books of thick derny
paper |
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12. | 00 |
For the Assay Office |
A pair of Assay-ballances with a Lanthorn |
5. | 00. | 00 |
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Assay-weights |
2. | 00. | 00 |
Two Copell molds |
| 10. | 00 |
Two pair of iron molds or Calms to cast two sorts of Assay bullets |
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| 10. | 00 |
16. | 08. | 08 |
Five dozen Mufflers at 18d a
Muffler |
4. | 10. |
00 | |
Fine bone ashes one bushel |
| 12. |
00 |
Charcoal an hunddred bushels at 8d a bushel |
3. | 06. | 08 |
For the Melter. |
Brass patterns for making molds to cast the barrs of gold & silver at 18d prper lwtpound weight, vizt 6 Guinea barrs, 3 half Guinea barrs, 2 Crown barrs, 4 half crown barrs, 9 shilling bars & 2 sixpenny barrs |
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2. | 06 |
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A sweep mill |
2. | 00 |
Fifty pounds of Quicksilver at 5s a pound |
12. | 10 |
26. | 19. | 00 |
Thirty bushels of bone-ashes for tests at 4s a bushel |
6. | 00 |
Half a dozen of frail brushes for cleaning the barrs of gold & silver. |
0. | 03 |
For the Moneyers. |
Two dozen of sizing scales wthwith stands & counterpoizes, at 11s a piece |
13. | 04 |
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Twenty four dozen of sizing flots (if by this name they mean Rasps for sizing the blanks) at 1s prper lwtpound weight |
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40. | 00 |
Five hundred weight of Alume at 18 or 20s prper hundred |
05. | 00 |
62. | 06. | 00 |
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62. | 06. | 00 |
Two hundred weight of red wine-stone or Tartar |
3. | 00 |
One dozen of soft brushes |
0. | 06 |
One dozen of small scratch brushes for cleaning the Dyes, ten for the Moneyers & two for the Graver |
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0. | 16 |
For the Graver Engineer & Smith. |
Blistered steel 50lwt at 4d prper lwtpound weight |
10.10
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A table Vice & Files of several sorts, vizt Rubbers at 1s a pound wttweight, smooth Files & bastard smooth files at 3s a file & other files at 18d a file
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16.00
28.10.00.
Two Oyle-stones 20s. Two Grind-stones 20s
2.00
Total
169.12.08
Cast Rollers are not to be bought. The man who makes them keeps the secret to himself & only lends the Rollers to the moneyers at 10s a day. Hammered Rollers cost 6li a pair, but are not so serviceable. What is meant by a sizing Mill we are not certain. If it be the Mill for drawing the barrs of gold & silver to a just thickness, such a Mill with three hammered Rollers in the late recoinage cost 177 pounds. The Moneyers have some of those Mills remaining in their hands wchwhich they can afford cheaper. German steel is scarce to be met with in shops fit for their use. Our Smith sends into Germany for it. It costs from 8d to 12d or 14d prper lwtpound weight according to the goodness & scarcity. Its chief use is for making the Dyes & Puncheons, & we conceive it best to have the money of both nations made from the same puncheons. For the variety of impressions makes it more difficult to know good money & more easy to adulterate it. What is meant in the Inventory by large scratches half wier, we do not understand. Besides the things above mentioned there should be two indented Trial pieces of crown gold & two of standard silver one for making the money of due allay the other for examining it before delivery. They will cost the value of the gold & silver conteined in them, & are to be made by a Iury of Goldsmiths with, four other Trial pieces for England, as we mentioned in orour late Report of yethe 24th March last.
All wchwhich is most humbly submitted to yoryour
Lordships great Wisdome.
Mint Office. Apr. 12 1707
I Stanley
Is. Newton
In Ellis
Report of yethe Officers of the Mint upon the Inventory of Tools for yethe Mint in Scotland.
read 12th apr: 1707. vide the Minute-Book
Md.Md. The officers have taken out the Scotch Inventor in advadvance to speak wthwith SrSir D. Nairn upon some expressions therein
ReptReport offoffered by the Mint I