Memoranda on accounting, checking and packing

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/2/364, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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The Master receives money out of the Treasury for paying for copper coynage & incident charges, for which he is charged by his receipt.

The master receives blanks by Tunns & pays for the same according to contracts made between the Officers of the Mint & the blank-maker & is dischargd of so much money & charged with so many Tunns of blanks by the blank-makers receipts.

The Master delivers so many Tunns of Copper to the Queens order for ready money & is discharged thereof by the receipts of that Order. And the farthings are told & put into baggs by tale & the tale mentioned in the receipts. And the Master pays the money into the Treasury & takes receipts or Tallys for it.

The Master makes up all this account of moneys & Tuns of Tin by those receipts & is allowed in the account for coynage & for trouble & hazzards in charges discharges & making up the account, & incident charges.

NB That the baggs or some of them may be weighed after telling to see how the weight & tale agree, & how exact the clerks are in telling, & where any suspicion of error occurrs the bagg may be told over again

NB That the Assaymaster may be appointed to view the farthings when coyned & brought up to be weighed & delivered & to examin such as he most suspects to be bad metal.

NB that the Master coyn only so many Tunns as shall from time to time be bespoke by people who will receive them & pay ready money for them so soon as they are coyned.