In obedience to yoryour LordpsLordships order of Reference upon the ReMemorial of Mr Appleby & Mr Hines I have considered the same & humbly represent that

Copper money

Fine Copper will not run close into Barrs but requires either to be either battered or rolled thin by a Mill, & the cheapest way is to roll it. But a horse mill being too weak & too chargeable for this purpose I advised Mr Applebly & Mr Hines to procure a water Mill, & to encouraged them to do it I promised them to give them no disturbance my self so long as they kept to their covenants in the copper wchwhich they brought to me. But as to my superiors I told at the same time I told them that I could engage nothing for my superiors. Hereupon they took a water mill neare Maiden head 3 or 4 miles above Windsor at the rent of 50li per anannum for three years from midsummer last, besides a fine of 20 Guineas & 75li paid for Tools prepared by Mr Eyes there by Mr Ayres.. They took also another little place neare it for a warehouse & lodging room & room for building a refining furnace at 12li prper anannum & the furnace cost them almost 40li in building it as they informe me, &besides ☉ beds & furniture for servants the Rolls & Molds & other tools wchwhich cost them above 200li as they represent. And when a stop was put to the coinage I informed your LordpsLordships that 25 Tons of money was coined & delivered besides what was ready to be delivered, of wchwhich I did not then know the just quantity: bBut it amounted unto 246 hundred weight. And as much copper in plates was brought into the mint other that day or the day before as made 26 hundred weight more: so that there hath been coined 27 Tuns 12 Ccwt weight. There was also at that time 425 Ccwt more brought down the river ready to be imported & 45 TuCcwt more left at the Mill ready to be brought down & importedin pickle, & 35 Ccwt rolled but not cleaned, & 44$\frac{3}{4}$ Ccwt more rolled hot but not yet rolledcold And in Brockage Scissel & Cakes 128 Ccwt. 2Q. Besides 20 Tunns wchwhich they tell me they have contracted for under hand & seale.†† The Rolls hitherto used at the said were rough, [ & [upon complaining much of the roughness of the barrscopper imported, they were procuring smoother rolls when the copper was coinage was stopped & tell me that they have procured them.] & by their roughness occasioned much complaint of them, but the assured me that they Rolls have now procured smooth rolls. [They pay to four three servants 10s a piece per wekek & 9s to a fourth durigngduring this interruption of their coinage.]