Petition for a pay increase Eight clerks c. 198 words The Newton Project Oxford 2017 Newton Project, University of Oxford

This metadata is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

 c. September 1698, c. 198 words. Treasury

[Note on dating: this is presumably the document referred to in MINT00030 (Mint 19/2/499), which mentions the clerks' petition having been referred by the Treasury on 6 October 1698.]

 MINT 19/2/498, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK UKSurreyKew, RichmondNational Archives MINT 19/2/498 c. September 1698 English Clerical Hand MintPersonnel and Administration Catalogue information compiled by Rob Iliffe, Peter Spargo & John Young Catalogue exported to teiHeader by Michael Hawkins Transcribed by Will Scott
498

To the Rht:Right Honble:Honourable The Lord's Commrs:Commissioners of His Majts:Majestys Treasury

The humble Peticontion of The Clerks of his Majts:Majestys Mint within ye:the Tower of London

Sheweth

That the Business of his Majts:Majestys Mint by the Late extraordinary Coinage of Gold and Silvr:Silver Monys hath been greatly encreased to the filling up allmost 20: Iournalls in Large Follio, which will require Severall Yeares Constant attendance. from Your Peticonrs:Petitioners to transcribe into Leigers Melting Books &cc. over & above yethe usuall Business in the office

aAnd Your Petirs:Petitioners Salaries not being sufficient for theire maintainance they respectively amounting to no more than forty pounds ꝑper Ann:Annum (without any fees or ꝑperquisites whatsoever) our of which they have allwayes paid assesments to his Majtie:Majestie

Your Petirs:Petitioners therefore humbly pray Your Lopps:Lordshipps to take the prremisses into consideration & to settle upon them such standing salaries as to Your Lopp:Lordshipps shall seeme meet – – –

And Yor:Your Petrs:Petitioners shall ever pray &c

I Skingley cl:clerk to yethe Ward.Warden Tho Fowle Comptrollers Clerks Tho: Porter Thomas Pendleton Ioshua White R Walker cl.clerk to his MatiesMajesties ch:chief clerk Tho: Renitt Assaymaster Clerck. Griff Thomas clerck to the Surveyer of the Meltings