May it please yoryour LordpLordship

Light night the a Letter (a copie of (a copy of wchwhich is enclosedannexed) was sent to us from yethe Officers of the Ordnance a copy o wherein they desire us to deliver to them two mill rooms a buildin two represent that the Barracks they have are not sufficient for retion of yethe third Regiment of Guardes now to be lodged in the Tower & desires us to deliver them the a buliding conteining a mill rooms & Smiths Shop to be fitted up into Barracks. A copy of the Letter is hereunto annexed. And tThe state of the matter is this.

When About the time that Mr Slingsby fell into trouble there were Barracks & some hou War houses for people not belonging to the Mint built upon part of yethe Irish Mint, we think at the charge of the Office of Ordnance, & in yethe year 1695 the barracks were changed into five Mill rooms for the at the charge of the Mint.& & After the for the recoinage of the hammered money. And after the recoinage was over three of the Mill rooms were delivered returned to yethe Lord Lucas then my Lord LuasLucas the Office of Ordinance & fitted into Barracks, & two fo them were kept by the mint for ythee coinage of copper money, together wthwith a Smiths shop wchwhich stanoods between these two Barrack Mills & the other three. And this shop is now used for by the Smith who makes the Dyes & Puncheons for the Gravers. And the horses under the two Mill roomes where the horses go round in drawing the Mills about, a great quantity of her MajtsMajestys Tin is lodged. Whenever there shall be a coinage of copper money it will be a great charge to build new mill rooms & we shall have no ground left to build them upon. We have no other Shop for the said Smith no grownd left to build one. A

At yethe settin About 50 years ago at yethe setting up of the coynage by the Mill & Press the Mint was cleared of forreigners by order of C

The Irish Mint, as we have heard, was in gardens & stables belonging to the Mint till about 36 or 40 years ago, Buat wchwhich time the bfurther part of t

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About the time that Mr Slingsby feel into troubles, there were Barracks built upon a built upon

In the Indenture of the Mint Her MatyMajesty & her Predecessors have granted under the Broad seale, that the Officers of the Mint shall at all times the Officers of the Mint shall at all times hold have & peaceably enjoyed all places houses & grownds as well buildedbuilded as unbuilded within the said Mint wchwhich heretofore have been called repureputed or taken for the Mint without Medling, lLet or dDisturbance by the chiefchief Governour Constable LieuetenantLieutenant or any other Officers or Ministers of the Towerof the Tower. Pursuant to this grant the Mint was cleared of forreigners by Order of Council about 50 years ago. About 10 or 12A few years after, Barracks & some oth some houses for people not belonging to yethe Mint were built upon the further end of the Irish Mint at the charge of the Office of Ordnance as we have heard. In yethe year 1695 the Barracks were turned into Millrooms at yethe charge of the Mint for the recoinage of yethe hammered money. After the recoinage the one of the Millrooms conteining three Mills was & the Garret of the other were turned into Barracks, the other conteining two Mills was kept for the coinage of copper money, except the Garret & a smiths shop between the mill rooms is now made use of by the Smith who works for the Graver makes the Dyes & Puncheons for the Graver. And We have no other shop for this purposes, nor know This shop & the double Mill room the Officers of the Ordnance desire to have turned into Barracks.

We have as we conceive an untroubled right to yethe ground but do not insist upon it against her MatsMajestys serveservice We have no other shop for making the Dyes & Puncheons the places where they used to be made being in the hands of the Officers of Ordnance: nor do we know where to build a new one. To build new a new Mill double Millroom for copper money will be chargeable & whe know not where to find either money or a place to build it. The bo Vnder the Millroom where the Mill-horses are to go round is laid up about one halfa great quantity of her MatsMajestys Tinn., & TheWe shall want Warehouse room. By grants ratified from time to time We have under the broad seal Wwe have an undoubted right to the grownd of the on wchwhich these buildings stand, by grants ratified from time to time under the broad seal but submit it to her MatsMajestys pleasureservicepleasure. We humbly desire yor Lordps directiosn what we shall do in this matter & are ready to submitt to them remaining

My Lord

YorYour LordpsLordships most h.humble & m.most ob.obedient stservant