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<title>Reports the East India Company's offer to take a hundred tons of tin in lieu of money owed it by the Treasury for saltpetre</title>
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<note type="metadataLine">23 January 1710/1, <hi rend="italic">c.</hi> 94 words.</note>

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<p>Printed in <hi rend="italic">NC</hi>, 5: 92-3.</p>
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<change when="2016-09-07">Transcribed by <name>Will Scott</name></change>
    <change when="2016-09-25"><name>Will Scott</name> finished transcription</change>
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<p rend="indent0" xml:id="par2">May it please your <choice><abbr>Lo<hi rend="superscript">ps</hi></abbr><expan>Lordships</expan></choice> <space dim="vertical" unit="lines" extent="1"/></p>
    
<p rend="indent0" xml:id="par3">I understand by M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Ward that the East India Company <lb xml:id="l2"/>are willing to give 7000<hi rend="superscript"><choice><orig><hi rend="overline">li</hi></orig><reg>li</reg></choice></hi> for one hundred Tunns of <lb xml:id="l3"/>Tin to be paid <del type="strikethrough">in Exchequer Bill</del><choice><sic>s</sic><corr type="delText">s</corr></choice> out of the first moneys <lb xml:id="l4"/>they shall receive of your <choice><abbr>Lords<hi rend="superscript">ps</hi></abbr><expan>Lordships</expan></choice> for salt peter <add place="supralinear" indicator="yes">&amp; in the same moneys</add>, &amp; desire <lb xml:id="l5"/>the Tin may be speedily delive<del type="over">d</del><add place="over" indicator="no">r</add>ed if your <choice><abbr>Lord<hi rend="superscript">ps</hi></abbr><expan>Lordships</expan></choice> approve <lb xml:id="l6"/>thereof.</p>
    
<p rend="indent10" xml:id="par4">All which 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> <lb xml:id="l7"/><space dim="horizontal" unit="words" extent="2"/>great wisdome.</p>
    
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