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Mint 19/2/337 has also been used for a holograph draft syllabus for Stone's Foundation.
May it please yoer ps
According to yoer psr Lowndes
his Letter of 28 October last: We humbly lay before yoer psaewhich vizt
That it be made of fine English Copper malleable under
the hammer without cracking when made red hot. For such
Copper is free from mixture & is of about the same degree
of fineness with the Swedish copper money & with copper
vessels made at the battering mills.
That such copper be made into fillets of a due breadth
& thickness either at the battering mills or at the drawing
mills & be received at the Mint upon the Master & Worker's
Note expressing the weight thereof: & that the Master & Worker
upon delivering back to the Importer the same weight of
Copper in scissel & money together be discharged of his Re
ceipt; the Importer at the same time paying the Master a
certain seigniorage for bearing the charges of the Mint & coinage & the Master & Worker being accountable for the
seinioroage
The Fillets imported may be assayed by heating a few
of them red hot at one end & trying if they will beare the
hammer without cracking. The Assays may be made by the
Kings Assaymaster or his Clerk or by the Smith, & the Im
porters &c may be present if they please.
The moneys may be assayed before delivery in the
following manner. Let a Tunn of Copper money (more or
less) be very well mixed together, & at each of the four sides
of the heap let so much copper money be counted our for a
trial as should make a pound weight. And if each of the
parcells counted out makes a pound weight without the error
of the weight of an half penny & one or two pieces taken
out of each parcel endures the hammer assay by the ham
mer, the money to be deliverable.
If the said four parcells differ not in weight from
one another above the weight of a farthing the tale of
the whole Tunn may be estimated in proportion to its weight int
And these four assays with the weight & tale of every Tunn
if the money prove at any time too light or too heavy, the
weight b may be corrected in the coynage of the next copper
imported, so as to make the
beare a just proportion to the whole weight.
Two or more pieces of money may be taken out of
every Tunn & put into a Pix & tried yearly by such
person or persons as the Lord High Treasurer or Lords mmers
Mr Eyres a Refiner of Copper proposes to make
& size the fillets by a drawing Mill for fifteen pence
per pound weight of the blancks cut out of them t 100£ pr Tunn.
a penny more be allowed to him for putting away the
copper money, & four pence be added for seigniorage
the whole will be answered by cutting a pound weight
twenty pence. &
Out of the Seigniorage, the Master & Worker may
have one penny for himself, the Graver & Smith two for the Moneyers
pence
for bearing the charges of
a controllment Roll, repairing the buildings buying coyning
tools & putting them into repairs & buying barrels boxes
& baggs to put the money into &c.
After the coyning Tools are once put into repairs the
moneyers are to keep them in repairs.
will amount unto battere
blanksmore then at the drawing Mills.
r Eyres hath not yet erected a drawing Mill
but proposes that he can do it & be ready to deliver
be performed are out of repairs.
The Proposalls of Mr Eyres & the Moneyers are hereunto
annexed & corrected in this Report