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<title>Holograph draft covering letter for an account of tin sales since last Lady Day [probably <ref target="/catalogue/record/MINT00724">MINT00724</ref> (Mint 19/3/575)]</title>
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<extent><hi rend="italic">c.</hi> <num n="word_count" value="204">204</num> words</extent>
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<authority>The Newton Project</authority>
<pubPlace>Oxford</pubPlace>
<date>2017</date>
<publisher>Newton Project, University of Oxford</publisher>
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<note type="metadataLine">Between 1711 and 1714, <hi rend="italic">c.</hi> 204 words.</note>

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<change when="2001-01-01" type="metadata">Catalogue information compiled by Rob Iliffe, Peter Spargo &amp; John Young</change>
<change when="2011-09-29" type="metadata">Catalogue exported to teiHeader by <name>Michael Hawkins</name></change>
    <change when="2017-03-22">Transcribed by <name>Will Scott</name></change>
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    <p rend="indent0" xml:id="par1"><hi rend="large">To the <choice><abbr>R<hi rend="superscript">t</hi></abbr><expan>Right</expan></choice> <choice><abbr>Hon<hi rend="superscript">ble</hi></abbr><expan>Honourable</expan></choice> <del type="cancelled">the</del> Earl of Oxford &amp; Ea<del type="over"><gap reason="illgblDel" unit="chars" extent="1"/></del><add place="over" indicator="no">r</add>l Mortimer <lb xml:id="l1"/>Lord High Treasurer of great Britain.</hi> <space dim="vertical" unit="lines" extent="2"/></p>
    
    <p rend="indent0" xml:id="par2"><hi rend="large">May it please your <choice><abbr>Lords<hi rend="superscript">p</hi></abbr><expan>Lordship</expan></choice></hi> <space dim="vertical" unit="lines" extent="1"/></p>
    
    <p xml:id="par3">According to <choice><abbr>yo<hi rend="superscript">r</hi></abbr><expan>your</expan></choice> <choice><abbr>Lord<hi rend="superscript">p</hi></abbr><expan>Lordship</expan></choice> order of 3<hi rend="superscript">d</hi> September instant We <lb xml:id="l2"/>herewith lay before <choice><abbr>yo<hi rend="superscript">r</hi></abbr><expan>your</expan></choice> <choice><abbr>Lord<hi rend="superscript">p</hi></abbr><expan>Lordship</expan></choice> <add place="supralinear" indicator="yes">in the paper annexed</add> an <choice><abbr>Acc<hi rend="superscript">t</hi></abbr><expan>Account</expan></choice> of all <del type="cancelled">the</del> Her <choice><abbr>Ma<hi rend="superscript">ties</hi></abbr><expan>Majesties</expan></choice> <lb xml:id="l3"/>Tyn <del type="over"><gap reason="illgblDel" unit="chars" extent="1"/></del><add place="over" indicator="no">t</add>hat has been sold since Lady last &amp; to whom<add place="inline" indicator="no">.</add> <del type="strikethrough">in the Paper <lb xml:id="l4"/>annexed.</del> The persons named in the Account are for the most <lb xml:id="l5"/>part Pewterers who sometimes b<del type="over">y</del><add place="over" indicator="no">u</add>y for themselves but <del type="strikethrough"><unclear reason="del" cert="low">for</unclear> most</del> <lb xml:id="l6"/>commonly factor for the merchants. <add place="supralinear" indicator="no">For where the Merchants imploy Factors we enter only the names of the Factors.</add> We have also added another <lb xml:id="l7"/>Account of the Quantities exported to several places abroa<del type="over"><gap reason="illgblDel" unit="chars" extent="1"/></del><add place="over" indicator="no">d</add> taken <lb xml:id="l8"/>from the book<del type="over"><gap reason="illgblDel" unit="chars" extent="1"/></del><add place="over" indicator="no">s</add> of the Custome-house <del type="strikethrough">but not <add place="supralinear" indicator="yes"><del type="strikethrough">yet</del></add> examined by us</del> <lb xml:id="l9"/><add place="supralinear lineBeginning" indicator="no"><add place="lineBeginning" indicator="no">&amp;</add> published</add> by other people<choice><orig/><reg> </reg></choice><del type="over">:</del><add place="over" indicator="no"><add place="supralinear" indicator="yes">For <del type="over"><gap reason="illgblDel" unit="chars" extent="1"/></del><add place="over" indicator="no">W</add>e enter not the <del type="strikethrough">Merchants names nor</del> the places to <choice><abbr>w<hi rend="superscript">ch</hi></abbr><expan>which</expan></choice> the Tyn is exported.</add></add> We cannot affirm <add place="inline" indicator="no">th</add>i<del type="over">t</del><add place="over" indicator="no">s</add> <add place="inline" indicator="no"><choice><abbr>Ac<hi rend="superscript">t</hi></abbr><expan>Account</expan></choice></add> so exact as that taken from <lb xml:id="l10"/>our own books: but <del type="over">it</del><add place="over" indicator="no"><add place="supralinear" indicator="no">the whole sum </add></add> agrees well <del type="strikethrough">well</del><add place="supralinear" indicator="no"><del type="strikethrough">in the who</del></add> with  <del type="strikethrough">o<hi rend="superscript">rs</hi>.</del><del type="strikethrough">s<del type="over"><gap reason="illgblDel" unit="chars" extent="1"/></del><add place="over" indicator="no">o</add>me small errors <lb xml:id="l11"/>perhaps excepted.</del><add place="supralinear" indicator="yes">that <del type="over"><gap reason="illgblDel" unit="chars" extent="1"/></del><add place="over" indicator="no">i</add>n <choice><abbr>o<hi rend="superscript">r</hi></abbr><expan>our</expan></choice> books <choice><abbr>w<hi rend="superscript">ch</hi></abbr><expan>which</expan></choice> makes <lb xml:id="l12"/><add place="lineBeginning" indicator="no"><del type="over"><gap reason="illgblDel" unit="chars" extent="2"/></del><add place="over" indicator="no">us</add></add> think the particulers neare the truth if not exact.</add> All <choice><abbr>w<hi rend="superscript">ch</hi></abbr><expan>which</expan></choice> is most humbly submitted to <choice><abbr>yo<hi rend="superscript">r</hi></abbr><expan>your</expan></choice> <choice><abbr>Lord<hi rend="superscript">ps</hi></abbr><expan>Lordships</expan></choice></p>
    
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