A Question being moved about a clause in the Gravers Patent, I humbly beg leave to lay the matter before yoryour LordpLordship. that All Gravers having a liberty to make Medals where they are not restrained by the GovernmtGovernment the Gravers of the Mint for their tTthe Gravers for their encouragement & for restraining the liberty of making Medals with the effigies of yethe King or Queen have be a clause in their Patent been allowed & all others prohibited or to make such Medals with the effigies of the K.King or Q.Queen. And this Office of Medal-maker to yethe Crown has been sometimes encouraged by a large salary out of the Civil List, & sometimes granted to strangers & is not part of the constitution of the Mint. For by the standing constitution of the Mint, [the Master & Worker imploys not the Graver to melt & coyn but] the Moneyers to coyne what ever the GraverGovernment has occasion for whether mMoney Medals or Healing pieces, the metal weight allay and form of the mMoney & Medals being first appointed by the King or Queen by advice of the Council, & the Graver only makinesg the stamps. Now if for saving her MajtyMajesty & the Council the trouble of giving particular Orders about such Medals as the Government has no occasion for, & for encouraging the Graver the Gravers of the Mint to improve themselves to be content with less salaries it be thought fit to continue this Office or Privilege of Medal-maker to the crown to the Gravers: we areI am humbly of opinion that the Gravers be obliged to set thiseir name or the first letters thereof upon thiseir ownown Medals to distinguish them from Medals made by the Queens Mint. HThey may be also restrained from dispersing them before a specimen of them has been shewed to your LordpLordship or your Order LordpLordpor even from making medals wchwhich relating to state affairs or be otherwise limited as her MajtyMajesty shall think fit. And if it should be thought fit upon any emergent occasion, to restrain thenwhen it shall ever the Government pleases to have any Medals to prohibit the Graver coined by the Mint to order the the coynage of a Medal I am ready to coyn such Medalls as her Majty shall Orderthem by her Majts Warrantit according to the course of the Mint as in the case of coronation Medals & to deliver any number of themsuch Medals to yoryour LordpsLordships Order. But should the Graver's melting & coyning be made a part of the constitution of the Mint the alteration in the constitution would be fundamental & might tend to confuse.confusion & to bring the Mint into dis dis discredit. & & All wchwhich &c And I humbly conceive her Majts warrant to be requisite for the safety & credit of the Mint & that its best to have it by advice of the Council according to ancient customs. But wthwithout her Majts Warrant for every particular sort of coyn I humbly conceive it is not creditable nor safe for the Mint to act, nor proper for me as Master & Wr to coyne by any other hands then the Moneyers the Gravers.] But to alter the course of the Mint by making the Gravers privelege a part of the constitution or to place in the Mint an arbitrary power of coyning Medals, or to give the Gravers to any Medals not approved by ther Majty Government the credit of being coyned by the Mint may be of illhave bad consequences., All wchwhich & I humbly conceive its better that the clause in the Gravers Patent is to Privilege be taken away, & the coynage of Medals left to yethe course of the Mint

The Gravers of the Mint do hereby give notice that their privilege of making Medals for the Queens Effigies,wth beisng no part of the constitution of yethe Mint; & that [for distinguishing their Medals from Medals made by the Mint they will for the future set their names or the first letters thereof upon all their own Medals to distinguish them from Medals made by the Queens Mint