Proposed measures to be taken in the wake of Daniel Stewart's recent death. Presumably a variant of MINT00402 (Mint 19/3/131)

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To the Rt Honble the Earl of Godolphin Lord High Treasurer of great Britain.

May it please your Lordp

We humbly beg leave to lay before your Lordp that Mr Daniel Stuart the Collector of the Bullion for her Majties Mint at Edinburgh is newly dead (as we hear by the last Post) & that in or humble opinion the place of Collector of the Bullion being neither necessary nor irregular should cease & the said Bullion be henceforth paid by the Vnder Collectors into the hands of the Cashkeeper of North Britain & kept apart in the Exchequer in a proper Chest under the key of the said Caskhkeeper & also, if it be thought fit, under the key of the General of her Majties said Mint (as is directed by the Scotch Act of Parliament whereby this Duty is granted to the Mint,) & that it be issued out thence from time to time by Warrants to the General & Master of the said Mint & kept apart in the Treasury of the said Mint under the keys of the General the Master & the Wardens for defraying the charges of coynage & repairs & paying of Salaries, & be accounted for annually by the Master, so that the two Mints in respect of their cash may be under the same Rules in conformity to the Act of Vnion & the Indenture of her Maties Mints

And we are further humbly of opinion that the Executor or Executors of the said Mr Stuart be directed forthwith to pay into the hands of the General & Master of the said Mint such a summ of money as your Lordp shall think fit, suppose the summ of 2500li, or 5000li to be kept in the Treasury of that Mint under the keys of thae General the Master & Wardens, that the service of that Mint receive no stop for want of moneys, there being as we are very credibly informed, a far greater summ in the hands of the Executor of the said Mr Stuart.

All which is most humbly submitted to yor Lordps great Wisdom{illeg}e.

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Is. Newton