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Our will & pleasure is & we do hereby authorize & command you
& every of you that in the coynage of such gold & silver as shall be
imported into orour Mint adt Edinborough you observe & act under the Rules
of Coynage wchwhich respect your several Offices & are conteined & expressed in the Copy hereunto annexed of the Indenture made
by wthwith Sr Isaac Newton Knt Es Master of Our Mint in the Tower
& hereunto annexedof London or shall be conteined in an attested Copy of the Indenture made wthwith the Master of orour said Mint for the time being and particularly that you
Master of orour said Mint at Edinburgh do coyn the said gold & silver into the seve
specral species of money therein named & mentioned making every species of the weight & finenes & within the remedy therin set
down, & that you Drummond EsMaster & Worker & you & Warden &
Counterwarden of the said Mint do survey & chec the
se survey & cheque the proceedings of all the rest of theother Officers of orour said Mint
see that all the moenys be well & duly coyned according to the said Rules & that
the weight be kept to the standard weights wchhich you shall receive from the Warden of yetheOrur Mint in the Tower & ytthat the several farces of money be not light then their counterpoiseds exprest in
& that an exact acctaccount be kept of all the Dies & Puncheons to that all the Dyes
worn out may be d from time to time demanded of the Graver & defaced in yoryour presence. And for so this
shall be yoryour WarrtWarrant.
To the General, Warden, Master, Counter-Warden
Assay-master & other Officers of orour Mint at
Edinborough.
Our will & pleasure is & we do hereby authorise & require you to coyne the silver
imported into orour Mint at Edingburgh into Crowns hal into crowns half crowns shillings & sixpences wthwith suchthe Dyes wchwhich shall
be sent you from orour Mint in the Tower of London or wthwith such Dyes as
shall be made by Puncheons set to you from thence, that the said moneyes coyned in
yourour Mint at EEdinburgh may be perfectly like thatose coyned in orour Mint in yethe Tower of London
except the letter E set under orour Effigies for distinguishing the moneys coyned in the
said two Mints. And we do further And we do further authorize you to command the Graver
of orour said Mint at Edinburgh to make Dyes & puncheons for coyning the said
species of silver moneys so soon as his work shall be approved by you for coyning
the said moneys perfectly like that coyned in the Tower of London. And we do
to clean & polish yethe Dies sent from yethe Tower in due manner till they become unserviceable & to make
newnew Dies wthwith the P.Puncheons sent from the Tower & to makes new Puncheons & use them for making of
Dyes new Dyes so soon as his work shall be approved by you & by the the General, Warden, Master & CouterwardenCounterwarden
at Edinbu of our said Mint at Edinburgh for makingcoyning the moneys coyned in that out Mint perfectly like the
moneys coyned in our Mint in the Tower of London. And we do further
further require you to coyn at least one tenth part of the standard silver into sixpen
ces four tenth parts into shillings, three tenths into half crowsncrowns, & the rest into
crown pieces. And for so doing this shall be yoryour WarrtWarrant
To Es master of orour Mint
at Edinbourgh.