Further holograph draft of MINT00786 (Mint 19/3/260)

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To the Right Honble the Lords Commrs of his Majties Treasury.

May it please yor Lordps

For diminishing the expences occasioned by Sr Ereskines Mine & making the greater dispatch of in that busines, I most humbly offer to yor Lordps consideration whether it may not be advisable that Dr Iustus Brandshagen & the two Hamilton's who are donesent down into Scotland, about this Mine may not be ordered to smelt the Ore which lyes buried by in Casks by Sr Iohn Ereskins house, so soon as they have madedispatched their Report wch by the {illeg}Warrant of his Royal Highness they are already {illeg}ordered to make: provided they find the silver produced out of that Ore {illeg}to be more then sufficient to pay all the expences o charges of smelting it. All three understand the smelting of oOres & can instruct one another & therefore {illeg}may all of {illeg} each of them wor{illeg}k apart in several furnaces for making the greater dispatch. If the Ore had not been worth the smelting it would not have been buried in Casks. And while they are smelting this Ore their Report may be considered in relation to the Minte, I make this propoal upon a presumption that the Ore is worth smelting because it was buried {illeg}for that end in Casks for that reason & that they can find a convenient place for settin{illeg}g up one or more furnaces. As the Cakes of silver come from the Test, they may be marked All which with the Roman numbers I, II, III, IV, V, &c stampt on them with a Chissel; & a list of {illeg}the number & weight of each every Cake may from time to time be sent up to London yor Lordps or your Order that the number weight & value of the Cakes of silver extracted out of the Ore may be known to yor Lor ascertained & makde known to yor Lordps {illeg}for preventing imbezzelingmts. And when these Cakes are melted into Ingots large Ingots, the Ingots may be numbred & weighed in the same manner. And the number & weight of every Regulus or lump of coarse silver got out of a pott of Ore may be entred in book{illeg}s