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Printed in NC, 6: 230-1. Draft in Mint 19/1/450-1, MINT00868. Sandford's memorial, MINT01194, and Treasury referral, MINT01195, copied in Mint 1/8.107. Treasury's verdict copied in Mint 1/8.110, MINT01197.
To the R
May it Please your Lordships
In Obedience to your Lordships Order of Reference of
Iune 16 last upon the Memoriall of the Warden of His ts:
concerning a Clerk to be allowed him for assisting him in the prosecution
of Clippers and Counterfeiters of the Coine & concerning Moneys to bear the
charges of such prosecutions and the method of accounting for the same We
humbly represent to your Lordships that the late Wardens have been allowed
such a Clerk and have been supplied with moneys partly by a Privy Seal
impowering them to seize the forfeited estates of convicted criminals and
partly out of the Civil List Moneys, untill an allowance not exceeding
400li n
for Carrying on this service.
Wee are therefore humbly of opinion that the Warden of the Mint
do find out a fit person to attend him as Clerk and Sollicitor to draw up
Informations and Warrants and enter them in Books, & attend prosecutions
at the Old Baily and assizes, and that this Officer be allowed a sallary of
60lin
apprehend and prosecute Offenders he be further allowed 15sh.
travelling charges for himself and his Horse and such other persons as shall
be sent upon the like services be allowed for themselves & their Horses such
travelling charges as the Warden shall approve of, nott exceeding 10sh sh
lieu of pocket expences, coach hire fees of court, charges of wittnesses
and such other incident expences as cannott be ascertained by good
Vouchers or would perplex the ts.
searched in o:sh: & in Country the sum of 25sh. and
for every person apprehended and brought before a Iustice of the Peace
and committed to prison in o.sh. & in the Country the sum
of 25sh. to be equally divided between the persons who search or appre
hend and carry to prison; and for every person indicted & tried in o.
the sum of 50sh. and in the Country the sum of 4 li to him or them who by
And We are also humbly of Opinion that the Master & Worker of the
Mint be impowered by a sign Mannual to pay the Sallary of the said Clerk
or Sollicitor quarterly as it shall become due, and to advance to him such
summs of money from time to time as by allowance or order under the
Wardens hand He the said sollicitor shall desire or demand for carrying
on the Prosecutions nott exceeding in the Whole 200ln
what shall be further due to the said sollicitor upon his ts.
and allowed. And that the Auditors of the Mint be directed & required in the
said Sign Mannual to allow in the ts.
payments not exceeding in the whole the sum of 400lin
of Parliament for this service.
And Wee are further humbly of Opinion that the said sollicitor do at the
end of every half year lay before the Master & Comptroller of the Mint
an t.
any moneys be due or have been paid to him or them with a certificate
from the Warden in writing that those services were done by his Order.
and also a Bill or Bills of moneys paid for Councellours fees, extraordinary
Habeas Corpus's, Lord Chief Iustices Warrants, &c. And that he incert
nothing into those bills without Receipts or other good Vouchers for the
same, nothing for Country people assisting in searching houses and in
apprehending and Carrying to prison persons suspected or accused. And
that the Master and Worker and the Comptroller do Examine and sign those
Bills as Vouchers to the Annual t.
the End of every year the said sollicitor do Lay his t.
before the Warden of the Mint to be Examined and signed, & then before the
Lord High rerrs
or direction how the same shall be Audited stated allowed & discharged
And if the Accomptant craves any augmentation of any allowance
for services nott within the Rules above ond
the Lord High arerrsry
Accompt.
All which is most humbly submitted to your Lordships great Wisdom
Isaac Newton
M Bladen
Mint Office