Contents
Gives details of design, tests to be performed before and after issue, and the master's allowance of 3 1/4 d. per pound weight coined to cover waste and incidental expenses.
Related Material
Official copy of the warrant (with the higher poundage of 3 1/2 d.), dated 13 September 1717, in PRO, AO1/1635, p. 281 (printed in CTB, 31, part 3 (1717): 575-7, and calendared in Challis, History, 750). Extracts from this version printed in NC, 6: 412-14.