Catalogue Entry: MINT00851

Petition for the return of a button-making machine of his own invention which has been impounded by the Mint on suspicion of being used for coining fake money

Author: Gerard Bovey (Button maker)

Source: MINT 19/1/454-5, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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On reverse, in a different hand: Treasury's referral of the petition to the Mint, dated 4 April 1699.

[See also T. 1/60.35a, MINT00931, printed in NC, 4: 306-7 (early 1699, Mint Board to Treasury, in response to a different complaint about their handling of Bovey).]

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