Petition for payment up to Michaelmas 1698 and travelling expenses

Author: Officers of the country mints

Source: MINT 19/2/480, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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To the R^t. Hon^ble: the L^ds: Com^rs of &c^t.

The humble peticon of the Officer of the 5. late Country Mints one behalfe of themselves & some others &c^t.

Sheweth

That whereas yo^r L^dps were pleased to appoint & establish sallary's for persons belonging unto y^e s^d. Mints in y^e Year 1696. And accordingly yo^r Pet^rs. haveing duely attended that service in their respective stacons untill next Michas \last/ 98. and have since been employed untill this time in Examm^g: their severall Mints acc^ts. (w^ch is still a continued charge unto yo^r. Pet^rs.) and that their Charges were great in goeing up and down to their respective places, and continuance there above 2. years without any other recompence or allowance than their base sallary's only (w^ch were but small) and their charge and business farr greater than was supposed or expected: And that they have been p^d. their s^d. sallary's no farther than Mids^r. last, And that y^e s^d. Countrey Mints Acco^ts. are as yet not passed nor Audited, And y^t yo^r Pet^rs. bonds given unto his Ma^ty. for y^e faithfull discharge of their respective trusts lyeing out ag^t. them untill y^e s^d. Acco^ts. be compleatly finished.

Wherefore yo^r: Pet^rs. most humbly prayes yo^r L^d.ps would please to take their case into consideracon by ordering the paym^t. of their Michmas sallary with such further allowances for their jorneys forwards and Backwards, and other extraordinary Expences &c^t. as your L^d.ps shall think fit. And also that yo^r {illeg}|Ac|co^ts. may be speedily Audited, Whereupon yo^r Pet^rs. may have up their securities, so as they may be the better enabled to pay their debts contracted in the s^d. service, and return unto their severall abodes.

And yo^rs &c