To the RtRight HonbleHonourable Sidney Earle of Godolphin Lord High Treasurer.

May it please yoryour LordpLordship

Speaking yesterday withAttending my LdLord Chancellour of Scotland about on Thursday about the Mint at Edinburgh, his LopLordship proposed to us to lay before your LopLordship a Memorial concerning someuchsome things wchwhich his Lop thought properwchwhich might be to be considered by the Committee of Council wchwhich is to sit to morrowday upon the affairs of Scotland.

His LopLordship is considering whether the Pix of that Mint may not be still tried before her MajtiesMajesties Council in Scotland as formerly, & if so, we are humbly of opinion that in conformity to the Act of Vnion there may be made seven indented Trial pieces of Crown gold & seven of standard silver, two of each metal to be kept in the two Treasuries to try the Pixes of the two Mints, two of each for the Wardens of the two Mints to try the moneys before delivery & to decide questions between the Master & Importer about the fineness of the Bullion, two of each for the masters of the two Mints to make the moneys by, two & one of each for the Wardens & Company of Goldsmiths in London to try their plate & manufactures of gold & silver. Such trial pieces have formerly beem made by a Iury of Goldsmiths summoned & sworn either by the Ld Chancellour, or Lords Commrs of the Treasuryer. It will be also convenient that a Pile of standard Troy weights be made for the Treasury in Scotland by the Deputy Chamberlains of the ExcheqrExchequer, if it be not already done. But Iif both pixes be tried by the original standard weights kept in at Westminster, six Trial pieces will be sufficient. They have formerly been made by a Iury of Goldsmiths summoned & sworn either by the LdLord Chancellour or by the LdLord Treasurer.

The Indenture of the Mint directs that two Piles of Standard Troy weights be made & examined by the OfficersWarden of the Mint & one of them delivered by the Warden of to the General of the Mint in Scotland. They may be printed like the weights sent to the corporations & in the absence of the General delivered to yoryour LopsLordships order.

For setting the coynage on foot speedily in that Mint Her MatyMajesty may please to issue out aher Warrant to the General & other Officers of her Mint in Scotland with a copy of the I present Indenture of the Mint in the Tower annexed to it (or so much thereof as shall be thought necessary) annexed to it, authorizing & commanding them to coyn the moneys of gold & silver according tounder the rules & method set down in the said annexed Copy & Order of the Treasury or Council of Scotland for putting that method in ting & directing to observe that the ComptrollerCounterwarden to concerning the duties of the that Office check the Meltings & coynage & keep an Account of the Dyes & that if any dispute shoualld arise about the duties the dutiesthe regulation of of the Officer that mint for puting that method in execution the order of the TrearyTreasury or Council of Scotland be oobserved concerning the same. ~ ~In the late recoynage of the hammered moneys in England, one tenth part of the silver was coyned into sixpences & four tenths into shillings, & the same proportion may be prescribed in the said Warrant if it be thought fit.

Another Warrant may be directed to the Genera Master of that Mint authorising the him to command the Graver to make Dyes & Master Puncheons & Dyes for coyning the money of the same form with the money coyned in the Tower of London & to use such master Puncheons as shall be sent him from the tower untill the Puncheons made by himself shall be approved by thies Officers of that Mint, & to set the letter E (the first letter of the name of the City of Edingborough) under her MajtiesMajesties Effigies as in the specimens of Dyes wchwhich will be sent him from the Tower, that the money coyned in the two Mints may be thereby distinguished.