Further holograph draft of MINT00468 (Mint 19/3/146), dated November 1718

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Our Will & pleasure is & We do hereby authorize & command you, to place {illeg}t out of such moneys as pursuant to an Act of Parliament made in the first year of our reign & entituled aAn Act to continue Duties for encouraging the coinage of money, &c & shall be issued unto you out of {illeg} 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, to pay unto the Officers of our said Mint from their Christmas {illeg}salaries commencing from Christmas wch was in the year of our Lord {illeg}one thousand seven hundred & fourteen, according to the following yearly allowances, that is to say, reserving to your self the salary of 300li per an, & paying to the Master & Workeryearly [the salary of 200li per an to ye Master, 150li per an to the Principal Warden, 60li per an to the Counter Warden 100li per an to the Assaymaster, 50li] to the Master 200li, to the Principal Warden 150li to the Counter Warden or Comptroller 60li, to the Assaymaster 100li to the {illeg}Sinker or Graver 50li, to the Kings Clerk & Clerk of the Papers & irons 40li, to& to the master Smith 30li, all which payments amount unto 930li annually, & {illeg}that you are to make these payments quarterly by four equal portions at Lady day, Midsummer Michaelmas & Christmas. {sic}. And our further will & pleasure is that out of the aforesaid moneyes you do also pay all & so all shall all charges of coinage & {illeg} all charges of keeping the Offices of the {illeg}said Mint & ye coining Tools in repair & the dwellings houses of the Officers within the said Mint wind & water tite, the bill {illeg} the Bills of ye said charges being first duly examined & allowed by the said Master, Warden, & Counter-Warden, under their hands{illeg}; & that you make up your Accounts annually of all your receipts & payments. And our further Will & pleasure is & We do hereby authorise & command you that you do take care & the Master of our said Mint that {sic} our moneys be so of Gold & Silver be coined according to the Rules & directions set down in the Indenture made between our late deare sister Queen Anne & Iohn Montgomerie Es Master of our said Mint untill a new Indenture shall be made & that the {sic} be of the same weight & fineness & form as the money coined in in England our Mint in the Tower of London, & that you & and {sic} all the Officers Moneyers & Ministers of or said Mint do so long conform your selves in all things to the Rules & directions set down conteined in the said Indenture. And for so doing this shall be your Warrant sufficient Warrant. Given at our Court at St Iames's the      day of November 1718, in the fift year of our Reign

To the Rt H. our Trusty & well beloved Cousin
Charles Earl of L{illeg}auderdale, General
of our Mint in Scotland.

< insertion from the left margin > thatto cause our moneys of gold & silver to be of the same {illeg}coined in our said Mint {illeg} of the same weight fineness & {illeg} of the same {sic} form wth our moneys coined in England & that the letter E be set under the our Effigies to distinguish the moneys coined inat Edinburgh from those coined inat London, & that you & the Master & all the Officers < text from f 205r resumes > < insertion from the top of f 205r > Moneyers & Ministers of our said Mint do {illeg}conform your selves in all things to these presents & to the Rules & directions set down in the Indenture made between our dear Sister Queen Ann & Iohn 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 ma or are now made by these presents. And for so < text from f 205r resumes >