Draft of MINT00662 (Mint 19/2/448)
In obedience to yor Lordps order of Reference upon the {Re}|M|emorial of Mr Appleby & Mr Hines I have considered the same & humbly represent that
Copper money
Fine Copper will not run close into Barrs but requires either to be either battered or rolled thin by a Mill, & the cheapest way is to roll it. But a horse mill being too weak & too chargeable for this purpose I advised Mr Applebly & Mr Hines to procure a water Mill, & to encouraged them to do it I promised them to give them no disturbance my self so long as they kept to their covenants in \the/ copper wch they brought to me. But as to my superiors I told at the same time I told them that I could engage nothing for my superiors. Hereupon they took a water mill \neare Maiden head/ 3 or 4 miles above
Windsor at the rent of 50li per an for three years \from midsummer last,/ besides a fine of
20 Guineas \& 75li paid for Tools prepared by Mr Eyes there by Mr Ayres. {sic}/. They took also another little place neare it for a warehouse
& lodging room & \room for building/ a refining furnace at 12li pr an & the furnace cost
them almost 40li in building it as they informe me, &|b|esides
\☉ beds & furniture for servants/
the Rolls & Molds &
other tools wch cost them above 200li as they represent. And when a stop
was put to the coinage I informed your Lordps that 25 Tons of money was
coined |&| delivered besides what was ready to be delivered, of wch I did not
then know the \just/ quantity: b|B|ut it amounted unto 24|6| hundred weight|.| {illeg}|And| as much
copper in plates was brought into the mint {other} that day or the day before
as made 26 hundred weight {illeg}|mo|re: so that there hath been coined 27 Tu{ns}
12 C weight. There was also at that time 4|2|5 C more brought down the rive{r}
\ready to be imported/ & 45 Tu|C| more left at the Mill ready to be brought down & imported\in pickle/, & 35 C
rolled but not cleaned, & 44 C more rolled hot but not yet rolled\cold/
And in Brockage Scissel & Cakes 128 C. 2Q. Besides 20 Tunns wch they tell me they have contracted for under hand & seale.\†/ The Rolls hitherto used at the said were rough, |[| & |[|upon complaining much of the roughness of the barrs/copper\ imported, they \were/ procuring smoother rolls when the copper was coinage was stopped & tell \me/ that they have procured them.] & \by their roughness/ occasioned much complaint of them, but the assured me that the|y| Rolls \have/ now procured smooth rolls. |[|They pay to four three servants 10s a piece per wekek & 9s to a fourth durigng {sic} this interruption of their {illeg} coinage.|]|
☉ besides the charge of Beds & {Mo} furniture for servants & the charge of new Rolls & other Tools {now} molds for casting the copper\& boxes for the copper/ & other utensills amounting to above {illeg}|8|0li. And \during the cessation of the coinage/ they pay 39s per week |[|to a Clerk & Refiner & two other servants|]| retaining wages to a Clerk & Refiner & \two/ other servants.
When a stop was put to this coinage – – smooth rolls.
Vpon the whole it seems to me that considering\{illeg}|②|/ the demand of copper money \by the people/ \{illeg}|&| \①/ the charge that the importers of copper have been at, &/ &|t|he coinage be no longer sta discontinued; that the 25 C of copper Barrs brought down the river to be imported \when the coinage was stopt/ & 45 & then in pickle & now pickle{d} {illeg}|b|e forthwith imported, provided they \copper/ beare the assays prescribed, & that the 35 C rolled but not cleaned be cleaned & also imported. And that after this \in the mean time/ {illeg}|M|r Briggs & Mr Richardson deliver in their proposals to your Lordps foor coining the money of finer copper & the Assay by wch their copper shall appear \{if}/ to be finer. And then their Proposals may be considered compared with what the present Importers will undertake for the future.
