Our Will & please is & We do hereby authorise & command you SrSir Isaac Newton Master & Worker of our Mint in the Tower of London to receive into our said Mint barrs of C from time to time fine British copper in barrs or fillets wchwhich when heated red hott will spread thin under the hammer without cracking & which areshall be of a due thi size or thickness to be prescribed by you & to out of the same to coyne half pence & farthings of such a bigness that forty & size half pence or ninety & two farthings may make a pound weight Averdupois excepting such small errors as may happen through in & by the unequal sizing of the barrs: which errors you shall endeavour that they do not be not in excess or defect above the 40th part of the whole weight & this not by designe but only by accident. And you shall pay the Importer for such copper imported after such rates as the Lords CommrsCommissioners of our Treasury now being or our High Treasurer or CommersCommissioners of our Treasury for the time being shall allow not exceeding eighteen pence by the pound weight, the one half thereof in money upon receiving the said copper & the other half upon in money & scissell together upon returning back the scissel, the said scissel being recconed at the same price by the pound weight with the Copper imported. And if the said Copper doth not beare the Assay in sizesize & fineness you shall not receive the same but return it back to be manufactured anew. And you shall coyne such quantities of such moneys & at such times as the said CommrsCommissioners of his MatsMajesty's Treary our TrearyTreasury or LdLord High Treasurer shall allow.☉ ☉ And one one side of each piece stampyou shall cause our effigies with the inscription GEORGIVS REX & on the other side you shall stampto be stamped on one side of each piece & the Effigies of a Britannia sitting upon a Globe with a speare in her left hand & a Mirtle in her leftright & the inscription BritRITANNIA & under her the dateto stamped on the other side as in the late copper money, & under her the Date. And when any Quantity of such moneys shall be coyned the same shall be well mixed in a heap, & assayed by counting out 23 pence from several parts of the heap & weighing the sa every parcel so counted out & taking you shall take a medium of th all the weights for the weight of 23 pence, & thereby estimatieng the value of the whole of the whole heap & of every part thereof according to its weight. And you assay the same in fineness shall cause the same to be also assayed in fineness by taking some pieces of the money, heating them red hot & beattering them to see if they will spread thin under the hammer, & then you shall receive the said new moneys from the moneyers by weight & deliver the same in smaller parcells to or p such of orour people as shall come for the same at the price settled & stated by the assay as above, abating them one penny in every seven pounds weight in consideration recompence for any small defect which may sometimes happen in the tale by the unequal sizing of the barrs of Copper. And the Moneyers shall not vend pay or distribute any of the said new coined moneys before the same be duely assayed & delivered to the said MrMaster & WrWorker as above.

And we doe further appoint & ordein that all receipsts & deliveries of Copper in barrs or scissel with the weight or price & all deliveries of new moneys tofrom the Moneyers to the Mr & Wr with the assays in weight & the price stated & setled by the assays shall be entered in books by a Clerk who shall be appointed by us & be called the kings Clerk, & that our said Clerk shall see all the assays performed & the copper & moneys & scissel weighed, & one or more pieces taken out of every parcel of moneys assayed to be kept in a box under his key & the key of the MrMaster & WrWorker to be tryed annually in weight & fineness before whom the CommrsCommissioners of our Treasury now being or the LdLord H.High TrearerTreasurer or CommersCommissioners of our TrearyTreasury for the time being shall appoint. to see the trial performed aAnd our said Clerk shall also yearly make a Roll upon oath of all the weight and440 & price of every parcell of new moneys coined & delivered from time to time by the Moneyers to the MarMaster & WrWorker. And th the said MrMaster & WrWorker of our Mint shall account annually before the Auditor of theour Mint for all the said copper moneys coyned, & be answerable to hi us for all the profits thereof above the charges,. And our said Auditor in auditing the said Accounts shall have all the same power as in auditing the accounts for the coinage of gold & silver. And our said Clerk shall examin & signe all bills of Charges for repairs of buildings & Offices & for providing things requisite for setting up this coinage. And the said SrSir Isaac Newton shall be allowed in his Accounts all summs of money paid by him for repairs of the buildings used in this coinage & for repairing or providing coining tools & all other things necessary for setting on foot this coinage, & all sums of money paid for copper imported, & the summ of three pence farthing for by the pound pweight for coining the said copper moneys & for bearing & sustaining all manner of wasts necessaries provisions necessaries & charges coming arising & growing in & about the coining assaying & weighing & delivering the said copper & copper moneys. And the said SrSir Isaac Newton shall also be allowed pay unto our Clerk one pountwenty shillings sterling. per by the Tunn forof all the moneys coined for his attendance on this service & be allowed the same in his accounts. And our said Clerk shall examin & tes all bills of charges which the said SrSir Isaac Newton shall want as vouchers to his Accounts & testify his examina thereof under his hand writing. AA

‡ And our further will & pleasure is & we do hereby command & charge all the chief Governour Constable Deputy Coverour & all other Officers & Ministers of the Tower aforesaid that all persons bringing such copper in barrs to the Towersaid Mint, & or coming thither for copper money shall have at all times free ingress & regress & issue into & out of the said Tower Mint, through the Gates of yethe said Tower & Franchises thereof without theany lett, arrest or molestation for debt or upon any other account or pretence whatsoever. ‡ And our further will & pleasure is & we do hereby command & charge all the Officers of the Tower afforesaid, that all persons bringing Copper in barrs to the said Mint or coming thither for money or scissel of copper shall have free ingress egress & issue by the Gates & through the same Tower & FanchisesFranchises thereof inward & outward at all times without any arresting, disturbance letting or gainsaying of the chief Governour Constable or Lieutenant or the Porter or any other Officer or person whatsoever he be, for any manner of Debt, matter or cause whatsoever it be, & without any thing given to them or to any other to have such entry. And we do further command & require the Moneyers Graver, Moneyers, Smith, & all others attending on this service to do their duty with diligence & application & to observe the tasks & directions of given them by our said Master & Worker for coining our said monies well & with dispatch. And for so doing this shall be your Warrant & the Warrant of all others concerned in this coinage.

To orour trusty & well beloved

SrSir Iassc Newton Knight Ma

Master & Worker of orour Mint