The state of the Mint & Coynage according to the best of my knowledge has hitherto been as follows.

Vpon a contract between the Crown & the Master & Workrer for yethe time being some Officers of the mint act in behalf of the Crown as cheques upon the Master to see that he performs his contract duty & others act under the Master for performing that contract. By the Indenture of the Mint Tthe Warden pays the Salaries of the former to the charges of repairing & rebuilding the Officers & Houses & providing necessaries therein for assayin melting assaying & coyingingcoyning &of Bullion. & the charges of the Diets of the Officers & other necessary charges to be imployed in & about the making of the said moneys, or repairing of the Offices & Houses necessary to be imployed in the said service & the general Incidents of the Mint, the Master directs the making & repairing of histhe Instruments used by him by him & defrays the charges thereof & those of reduceing the bullion to standard & of Assaying melting assaying & coyning & of the wast made in the operations, & as Treasurer of the Mint he pays also the fees at the Exchequer & Treasury of yethe coynage money & those of ppassying the Accounts through the several Offices of the Excheqr. He pays allso the charges of ordinary fees upon trying the Pix. & those of making the trial pieces & of dinners for the Iuries a And by thsis & the Master are enabled to make up their Accts separately without depending upon one another. The charges of reducing the Bullion to standard (vizt by refining & allay) are by the Indenture of the Mint The salaries from the time of making the Coynage Act have amounted to 2600li & sometimes to more so that for defraingdefraying the charges of yethe buildings & things other necessaries there has remained only 400li pr an, whereof the buildings have taken usually taken up two or three & some times almost 400li. The charges of reducing the Bullion to standard, vizt by refining & allay are allowed to the Mr & Wr by a clause in the Indenture of the Mint: wchwhich clause would have been needless had this clause charge been deemed within the 3000li. Charcoal, Aqua fortis, Water-silver, Lead & Cupels for the Assay Office & loss by the Assays are within the charges & wast of Assaying & so to be born out of the surplus above the 3000, by the coynage Act. And of the same kind is theare Assay the charges of repair buy repairing Assay furnaecs & buying new ones, these being moveables made of copper plates & luted within with loom. Furnaces for the Melting houses are distinguished from the buildings these being under the Masters direction & within his Accoutns while the buildings are withing the Wardens. Th Hearths & Chyimneys conv necessary for such Furnaces are withing the Wardens Account. the The Master adds repairs removes & rebuilds the furnaces at discretion without medling with the buildings. The nealing & blanching furnaces are also under the Masters direction within his Acct. Mills-rooms wth such floors as are necessary for erecting & benches for cCutters are within the Wardens Accts: the Mills & Cutters are under being Engins for coyning are under the Masters direction & within his Accts. The Moneyers repair the Iron work of these Engins out of their allowance for coynage: the Mr repairs the wooden work & places the charge thereof in his Acct. the same is to be understood of the Presses & Flatters & Cutters. The Moneyers out of their allowance for coynage repair the iron work of all the engins used by them & this by a clause in the Indenture of the Mint; & therefore the charge of repairing the coyning Engins have not hitherto bee reputed wthin the 3000li. Nor was it practicable to comprehend them within this charge the salaries amounting to 2600li & the repairs of yethe Engins & furnaces frequently to above 500li besides the buildings.]

By yethe Act of 18 Car II entituled An Act for encourageing of Coynage the Salaries of the Officers of the Mint & the charges of providing maintaining & repairing the buildings of the houses Offices & buildings & [those of the providing maintaining & repairing] other necessaries for assaying melting down & coyning the are limited to 3000li for preventing extravagance & the Overplus if it be employed for & towardsappropriated by(for encouraging the coinage) is appropriated to the expence wast & charge of assaying meltign down & coyning, & byuying in of Bullion to coyn. And in the clause preceding, these necessaries are called the charge or expence of the Mint, & the overplus is called yethe charge or expence of Assaying melting down & coyning & the encouragement of bringing in bullion. By the first I understand such necessaries for coining as may be limited without discouraging teh coynage by the such second such as arise cannot, that is such as arise from the being of a coynage & increase or decrease therewith. The Act of ParliamtParliament reccons the salaries & repairsHouses Offices & buildings among the necessaries & the Indentures of the Mint add the Diet of the Officers. made at that time, adds the Diet, & allows 2600li per anannum for the salaries & so leaves only 343 400li for the buildings Diet & other necessarieys. provisions whereby the Master may be enabled to carry on the coinage.

Vpon a contract by Indenture between the Crown & the Master & WrWorker for yethe time being, some Officers of yethe Mint act in behalf of the Mint crown as cheques upon the Master to see that he performs his covenants contract duly & others act under him for performing that contract. And by the Indenture the Warden pays the Salaries of the former & the charges of the repairs & of the repairs & Diet &of the Officers & other necessary charges to be imployed in & about the making of the moneys & repairing of the Offices & Houses necessary to be imployed in the said service. There are the necessaries within the 3000li. And the Master pays the Moneyers