To the Warden, Master Worker & ComptrollrComptroller of the Mint at Chester

Gentlemen

Wee do hereby require & charge you that you forbear those animositys that are between you & do not suffer them to interrupt the regular & orderly proceedings att the Mint according to yethe Due Course thereof & particularly ytthat you yethe Master & worker Mrr Clarke & his assistant Lewis do produce & show their accounts to you yethe Warden & ControllrController or either of them as often as they shall require & do suffer them to inspect or have duplicates of them from time to time as they require for keeping them right and satisfying themselves & us about them whensoever we shall desire it & ytthat all yethe sallerys wchwhich are payable by The Warden by the Indenture of the Mint be paid by Mrr Clarke to Mrr Weddell yryour warden for yethe Vse of the severall Officers & Clarks by & with his directions to yethe officers themselves and not otherwise the Indenture requiring it so, & but for saveing trouble itt should have been so all along, we also direct that Mrr Lewis be paid his sallary as ComptrollrComptroller Clerke for such part of yryour last quarter as he did yethe Business off yethe ComptrollrComptroller Clerke & yethe sallary no longer (his sallary since depending only on yethe Master Worker & that Mrr Greenhill be paid the Intire sallary of Comptrollrer Clarke for so long as he hath or shall do yethe whole business of yethe Comptrollers Clerk & wee are not of opinion that any new Clerk be imposed on the ComtrrsComptrollers Office without further directions from hence these things we stricktly require of you as you will answer itt at yor Perrill

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yoryour Loving friends

Is Newton

Tho Neale