Holograph draft of royal warrant to Lauderdale, General of the Edinburgh Mint, to settle the payment of salaries and expenses outstanding since Christmas 1714

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Our Will & pleasure is & We do hereby authorise & command you, out of such moneys as,[ pursuant to an Act of Parliament made in the first year of our reign; entituled An act to continue Duties for encouraging the coinage of money, &c] have been or shall be issued unto you out of our Exchequer by the Lord High Treasurer or any three or more of the Commissioners of our Treasury for the time being by way of imprest & upon account for the use & service of our said Mint in Scotland, to pay unto the Officers of our said Mint, their salaries commencing from Christmas which was in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred & fourteen according to the following yearly allowances, that is to say, reserving to your self the salary of 300li per ann, & paying yearly to the {illeg}Master 200li, to the Principal Warden 150li until the next voidance of this place, {sic}, to the Counter-Warden or Comptroller 60li, to the Assaymaster 100li to the Sinker or Graver 50li, to the Kings Clerk & Clerk of the papers & irons 40li, & to the Master Smith 430li: [all which payments amounting unto 930li annually, you are to make by four equal portions at Lady day, Midsummer, Michaelmas & Christmas.] And our further will & pleasure is that out of the aforesaid moneys you do also pay all charges of coinage & all charges of keeping the Offices of the said Mint & the coining Tools in repair, & the dwelling houses of the Officers within the said Mint wind & water tite, the Bills of the said incident charges being first duly examined & approved by the said Master, Warden, & Counter-warden under their hands; {sic} & that & a Controllment Roll being of all the moneys coined being made upon oath {illeg} by the Counterwarden; & that annually & that or by any two of them whereof the Master to be one, and that you make up your Accounts annually of all the moneys by you received & paid as above. And our further Will & pleasure is & We do hereby authorise & command you to cause our moneys of gold & silver to be coined in our said Mint of the same form with our moneys of the same value coined in England & with the same inscriptions, & that the letter E be set under our Effigies to distinguish the moneys coined at Edinburgh from those coined inat London: And that you & the Master & Warden, & C & all the Officers Moneyers & Ministers of our said Mint do conform themselves in all things to [these presents & also] to the Rules & Directions set down in the Indenture made between our dear sister Queen Ann & I{illeg}ohn Montgomerie Es Master of or said Mint, untill a new indenture shall be made, excepting such alterations as have since been made by Act of Parliament or are now made by these presents. And for so doing this shall be to you & all others concerned a sufficient Warrant. Given at our Court at St Iames's the            day of          1718, in the fift year of our Reign.

To
Charles Earl of L{illeg}auderdale, General
of our Mint in Scotland.