Clerical copy of tenders to supply copper received in response to the advertisement of 30 April 1717 [MINT00630 (Mint 19/2/406)] and forwarded to the Mint with MINT00636 (Mint 19/2/366):
May it please your Lordships
It being advertised in the Gazette for such Persons to bring in Proposalls as are willing to deliver in fine Malliable Brittish Copper for Coining Half pence and farthings without menioning what Quantity is wanted in what Quality & in what time to be deliver'd on all which Circumstances the price will in a great measure depend.
I begg leave to suppose a Quantity, Quality and time for delivering the same.
I Propose to deliver a hundred Tonn's of fine Brittish malliable Copper per annum for six, eight or Ten years.
The Copper to be milld or flatted to such exactness as to answer the weight design'd for the said half pence & farthings at eighteen pence half penny per pound.
And to allow for the Cissell or wast which shall be return'd Seventeen pence half penny per £
It is hum:bly Supposed the Officers of his Majesties Mint can cutt and Stamp the said half=pence and farthing in Work=manlike manner for two pence half=penny per £: each pound of Copper being cutt into two shillings there will remain three pence £: for the Publick which amounts to 2800:£ per annum out of which deduct for the rebate of one penny in the pound for the Cissell return'd {there} will remain 2550:£ clear to the Publick per annum.
If the Officer's of his Majesties Mint think two pence half penny per £: to little for what they are to perform I humbly propose to the same at the said price.
If Quantity, Quality time or anything in this proposall is contrary to your Lordships intenions on your Lordships signifying your pleasure; I am ready to give in proposalls consonant thereto.
I am 24:th May 1717. May it please your Lordships hum:ble Servant Jonathun Holloway
To the Right Honorable the Lords Commissioners of his Majesties Treasury
