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Contract appointing Shales as melter. Attached, in the same clerical hand, is 'The Inventory and Appraisement of Tooles and Utensils belonging to the Melting Houses in his Maties Mint in the Tower of London Appraised by Edward Sylvester and Peter Iohnson the Eight day of December 1681'.On reverse: signature of [warden] John Stanley as witness.