Draft of MINT00625 (Mint 19/2/363)
May it pl. yoer Lordps
According to yoer Lordps Order dated signified to us by Mr Lowndes & his Letter of 28 {Inat}{illeg} of October last: We have humbly lay before us yoer Lordps the method of coyning copper money wch we take to be the best, vizt That
That they Copper be fi\it/ m|b|e made of fine malleable \English / Copper \malleable/ like that of Swedeland, & of S English Copper malleable under the hammer when like the Swed without cracking when made red hot. For such Copper is free from mixture & is of about the same degree of fineness with the Swedish Copper money.
That such Copper be made into Fillets \of a due breadth & thickness/ at the battering Mills or drawing mills & received at the Mint by weight & assay upon the Note of the Master & Worker's Note, & that the Master & Wr upon delivering back to the Importer the same weight of Copper in money & Scissel together be discharged of his Note of his Receipt, the importer at the same time paying the Master a certain seigniorage \for the moneys/ \per pound wt/ for bearing the Charges of the Mint & Coynage, & & that the Master & Worker \be/ accountable for the Seigniorage.
That Mr Eyres a {illeg}|R|efiner of Copper proposes to make \& size/ the Fillets b wth\by/ a drawing Mill for 15d per lwt \of the blanks out out of them/ & if a penny more be allowed \to/ him for putting away the money & {illeg}|4| pence for seigniorage, the whole will amount unto 20£|d| pr lwt. And for an this for defraying this charge We humbly propose that a pound weight be cut into 20£.
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To Sr Isaac Newton TheseThe charge of making the fillets at the battering Mills & sizing them will amount unto 17d \per lwt/ besides the charges of fill erecting sizing Mills. So that And therefore we\this great charge makes us/ prefer the \way if/ making of the fillets by the battering\drawing/ th Mills.
The Fillets imported may be assayed by heating a few of them \red hot/ at one end & trying if they will beare the hammer without cracking.
The money may be assayed before delivery in the following manner Let a Tunn of Copper money be well mixed together & at \each of/ the four sides of the heap let so much copper money be counted \for a tryal/ as should make a pound weight. And if each of them\of the parcells counted out/ makes a pound wth {sic} without the error of a half penny of the weight of a half penny & one two peices taken out of each assay\parcell/ endures the assay by the hammer, the money shall\to/ be deliverable.
If the said four Assays\parcels/ differ not fr in weight from one another above the weight of a farthing, the tale of the whole {illeg} Tunn shall\may/ be estimated by putting in|t| t in the same t|p|roportion to the tale of {illeg} the tale of the four assays\parcells/ (v{illeg}|iz|t to 80d) as the weight of a Tunn is to ye weight of the four Assays\parcells/ And these four Assays wth the weight & take of every Tunn of Copper so assaye{d} shall\may/ be entered in books. And if the money at any time prove two {sic} light or two {sic} heavy, the weight may be corrected in the coynage of the next parcell\copper imported/.
The Assays may be made by the Queens\Kings/ Assaymaster \or his Clerk/, & the Importer may be present if he desires it.
|1| A piece Two or more pieces may be taken out of every Tun & put into a Pix & tried every year by the Queens Assayer before\two or three such/ such {sic} persons as the Ld Trearer of|r| Lds Commers of ye Treary shall appoint.
The Mr & Wr proposes to detain out of the seigniorage 3d for himself the Assaymr, Graver, Smith, Moneyers & two Clerks for coyning & Assaying the moneys & keeping the coy{illeg}|n|ing tools \in repair/ & buying baggs \boxes/ a|&| barrels for holding the moneys & scales & weights for weighing it. And the remaining three farthings may be applyed to repairs & buying coying {sic} Tools & other incidents
The seig Out of the S{illeg}|e|igniorage the Mr may detain 1d for himself the Graver Smith, & 2d for the Moneyers & the remaining penny may be applied to half a farthing for f|t|he Assayer \Auditor/ & two Clerks one for the king the other for himself, & for paying for stationary war{es} & {illeg} incidents in the Assay office & for Barrells Boxes {illeg}|&| Baggs to put put {sic} the money into. And the rest for keeping\of the seigniorage/ may be applied to repairs of buildings, pur\& to t{illeg}/ purchasing coyning Tools & putting them into repairs in the beginning. For after they are put into repairs the moneyers are to keep them in repairs.
The \Warden &/ Comptroller &|o||r| \may hav/ kings Clerk or\may/ make a Controllment Roll of all the money coyned annually & the Mr to\may/ insert the accounts of the Copper yearly into his\coynage into his/ annuall acct of the coynage of Gold & Silver.
The Warden & Comptroller may have authority to inspect the Copper coynage & the C{illeg}|o|ntroller or kings Clerk may make a Controllment Roll annually & the annual acct of the Copper Coynage be inserted into that of the gold & Silver. And for making this Acct
In the School of Mr Stones foundation,
|1| Algebra & the Conick sections should not be taught.
|2| Navigation should be taught only to so many boys as are intended for the Sea.
|4| Mensuration of Timber, Boards, Wainscot, B{r}ickword|k|, Glass work &c should be taught only to such boys as may have use of{illeg} mensuration in the rades they are to go to\be bound out unto/
|5| The five mechanical powers should be taught only to such boys as are designed for trades in which motion force & weight are to be considered.
|3| Th Gunnery, fortification, & Ingineering should be taught only to such boys as are desig{ned} for those imployments.
Three months is sufficient to
|Either| Mensuration, or gunnery Geometry & Fo the 5 Powers or \may be taught in two {illeg} or three month{s} & so may the doctrine of the five powers or that of/ Gunnery & Fortification may be taught in three months, \And/ any two of them \may be taught/ in five months, & all three in six or eight months. And for learning\teaching/ these it is not suffi requisite to l|t|earn|ch| all the six first Proposition{s}\Books/ of Euclide. So much as concerns the mensuration of areas & solids & the similitude of Triangles, reduced into a few Propositions, {illeg} s|i|s sufficient.
When any boys have learnt what may be u{illeg}|s|efull in the Trades \to wch/ tha|e|y are to be put{illeg}\bound/ out they s|m|ay leave the School & be succeeded by new boys: by wch means a great number will be taught.
A Table of the Trades in wch the learning of Every class may be usefull may be hung up in the School.
Hydrostaticks reduced into a few Propositions may be taught in a week or a fortnight so far as it may be usefull {illeg} to those that go to sea or to \such/ trades any way concerned\as have {illeg}|a|ny thing to do with/ Waterworks.
