Partial holograph draft of MINT00063 (Mint 19/1/170-71), followed by a partial holograph draft of MINT00070 (Mint 19/1/172-3)

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– to be augmented to 100li pr an after he hath improved himself by further practise.

— And that a new Graver, Probationer or Apprentice be hereafter taken into ye third place wth a competent salary {illeg}& soon be allowed two rooms to lodge & work in over the great Press room & over Mr Crokers shop.

Collonel Parsons & Mr Fowler do not work themselves but only imploy others, & Mr Rosse desires to succeed Mr Harris only in his place of Graver of Seale to her Majty for wch by veiwing {sic} a seal wch a seal wch he graved for the Dutchy of Lancaster we beleive {sic} him qualified. But Mr Le Clerk is a nimble & skilful Graver for money & medals & fit to be received into ye third placeMint if his business abroad will {sic}would allow him to attend the service.

And whereas accord the coynage of the money requires dispatch & such Medals as the Government has occasion forappoints are coyned by the Master & Worker after the same manner as& by the same authority as the money we are humbly of opinion that the Gravers be obliged by a clause in their constitution to make such Designes, Embosments Puncheons & Dyes as the Master & Worker shall appoint for dispatching the coynage of both{illeg} Medals & Money according to her Majts {illeg}Orders.

And upon considering that the Gravers for their private advantage & encouragement & for restraining the libery of making Medals wth the Effigies of the King or Queen, have been hitherto allowed & all other persons prohibited to make such Medals: we are humbly of opinion that they {illeg}Graver be obliged to set his name or the first letters thereof visibly upon his own medals & that he do not disperse any such Medals before a specimen of them hath been shewed to yor Lordp. And if it be thought fit requisite he may be restrained from making any Medals upon state affairs unless pursuant to her Majts Orders issued to the Master & Workerin coppying after Meddals made by ther Master & Worker according to her Majts Orders as in ye case of coronation Medals, in wch case he or be other otherwise limited as yor Lordp shall think fit.