Holograph draft of a royal warrant authorising payment to vendors of 5s. an ounce with the balance to follow

Whereas upon the Votes & Address of oer Commons in Parliament assembled We did by Wa{illeg}rrant under our Signe manual dated may 10 authorize & command the{illeg} the Warden CMaster & Comproller of our Mint in the Tower of London to take & receive from all persons & bodies politicks & or corporate all such wrought Plate as they or any of them shall bring to our said Mint of the kinds & standards mentioned in the said votes & to give such receipts for the same as {illeg}were desired in the said Address of our Commons & forthwith cause the same to be melted down & eassayed, & that you the Master & Worker of our Mint said Mint doshould immediately coin the same into schillings & six pences & pay the moneys produced into the receipt of oer Excheqr & tale Talleys for your eischarge, but the mon [And whereas the moneys coined of out of so much of the said plate imported as hath been imported into our said Mint since the fourteenth day of June are not yet & due payable by you into out orthe receipt of our Exchequer but may be paid to the officersimporters of the plate &Our will & pleasure is & We do hereby authorise & command you the sd Master & Worker of our said Mint to pay the mone said moneys to the importers of the said Plate or th in such pr or so much thereof as upon recconing or agreement shall appear to be due to each of them, & their Receipts thereo anything in our said Warrant to the contrary in an{illeg}ywise notwithstanding And for so doing this shall be your Warrant.

And wheras the oer Parliamentin their Act of Parliamt for t{illeg}he contribution of a summ not exceeding two millions entituled An Act for licensing & regulating Hakkney Coaches &c haveit is enacted only only that all & every the Receipts given for the Plate brought into the said Mint before ye 15th day of May {illeg} 1711 shall be accepted & taken as so much money for contributions upon their st said Act [ Now to the intent that our loving subjects may not lose the advantage of the moneys coined out of their Plateso much of their Plate as hath been imported afterafter the f said fourteenth day of May aforesd, Our will & pleasure is & we do hereby authorize & require you the said Master & Wr of oer Mint untill further order to pay to each of the said Importers after the rate of              per ounce for all {illeg} plate imported by them between after the the plate imported by them after the for wch the after s for wch theyour Receitspts dat{illeg} are dated after the said fourthens {sic} day of may ) are not awaited to be accepted & taken {illeg} to be accepted & taken as so much money for contributions upon the said Act. any thing in oer aforesaid Warrant to ye contrary in any wise notw.thstanding. And for so doing this shall be your warrant.] So that have made the Receipts given by the Officers of oer Mint for of platebut no provision is madeis made {sic} for accepting the Receipsts dated on or after the saidsaid 145th day of May: bu are of no advantage to the importers: [Our will & pleasure is tha & we do hereby authorise & commend you the said Master & Waorker of oer Mint for the advantage of our loving subjects to pay & unto each of the said Importers for their plate rec for wch the Receipts are received after upon or afterout the money couned out of their Plate imported on or after the said 145th day of May, after the rate of              per ounce Troy untill further order, any thing in oer said former Warrt to ye contrary in any wise notwithstanding. And for so ding {sic} this shall be your Warrant. unto you & all others concerned a sufficient Warrant. Given under.

Our will & pleasure is & we do hereby authorise & command you the said Master & Wr of our Mint to pay unto each of our loving subjects whose have Receipts of Plate are dated on or after the said 15th day of May [ out of the mo new of the new coimoneys coined out ofarising from their their {sic} said plate, ] the summ of five shillings per ounce Troy of the Plate received, untill further order& three pence per penny weight any thing in our for said former Warrant to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. And for so dining {sic}