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To the Right Hon
May it Please Your Lordships.
According to Your Lordships Order of Reference of 28th. March, Wee have
Considered the Annexed con
to Your Lordships that Mr. Doyley formerly Clerk to the Warden of the Mint having done
some service to the Government in the Prosecution of Mr. Dives for Counterfeiting Guineas
was Rewarded by K. Chas: II. with a Pattent for the Reverc
that he being a Linnen Draper by Trade & altogether unskilled in the Engineers
Business, a Clause was incerted in his Pattent impowering the King to Revoke the
Grant, and put the Engineers Business with the Masters allowance for the same into other
Hands, reserving only the sallary of nn.r. Doyley & accordingly when
the place became void, the King revoked the Grant to Mr. Doyley except the sallary of
£100 nn
proper sallary was Reserved to Mr. Doyley the King in lieu thereof granted to the
Moneyers another sallary of
Wee further Represent to Your Lordships that out of the Coinage Duty 3000£ nn
is appropriated by Act of Parliament to Sallaries and Repairs of Buildings, and at
present is not sufficient for those Vses, so that this new Sallary of 100£
cannott be spared from that sum without letting the Buildings run to ruin or
Putting the Mint into Debt.
That it is contrary to the Coinage Act to take away any Part of the 3000£ nn.
as a Reward for other s4ervices, And therefore We humbly Conceive that the Clause of
the Pattent for separating this Sallary from the Engineers Business and reserving
it to Mr Doyley is Illegal and voided the pattent
That Mr. Newton
has suspended the payment of this sallary both to Mr. Doyley, & to the Provost of
the Moneyers till he knows to whom he ought to Pay it.
That Mr. Doyley offered not long since to do the Engineers Business though
He understands it nott, butt intends only to Employ under Him the Smiths who are
now Employed under Mr. Looker one of the Moneyers who is a Smith and
Business, And that the Moneyers (for Reasons which they are best able to Explaine) are
very unwilling that Mr. Doyley should come amongst their Gold and Silver
This is the State of the Matter and We are thereupon humbly of Opinion
either that the Kings Council be Advised with, about voiding Mr. Doyleys pattent,
so that the Engineers Sallary appointed by the Indenture of the Mint, may not be given
away to an unqualified person for services to which the Coinage Duty is not appli
cable, butt be wholly applied to the Business of the Mint according to the Intent of
the Act of Parliament, or else that the Payment of the Sallary to the Moneyers by
particular Warrant be suspended till Mr. Doyleys Death
All ch:
I Stanley
Is: Newton