The Original & History of the Wardens prosecuting Clippers & Coyners.

About twenty & five years since, Mr Tho. Doyley was made Clerk to SrSir Anthony St Leger Warden of yethe Mint & soon after began to act in prosecuting clippers & falsefiers of the Kings coyn. The continued Clerk ten years, & SrSir Tho. Wharton being made Warden (wchwhich was about 16 years ago) took Nath. Higginson for his Clerk, & had about two years after (when Mr Macy became his Clerk) a Privy seal granted for seizing tools & materials made use of by Clippers & Coyners wchwhich proved ineffectual because the things were of no value. A Quarter of a year after another Privy seal was therefore granted for yethe clippings & clipt money & personal estate after conviction, wchwhich last instancecondition proved a hindrance to yethe Warden from seiszing because they were more acquitted then convicted & for yethe generality they were poor people worth little or nothing. Whereupon (after two renewals of this Privy seal (vizt in the beginning of King IJames & King William's reigns) the matter being referred to yethe Attorney General now LdLord Keeper, he reported that the words [after conviction] should be omitted & a new Privy Seal made to impower the Warden to receive clippings &c whereever found.