Further draft of MINT00798 (Mint 19/3/245)

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To the Rt Honble the Lords Commrs of his Mats Treasury.

May it please yor Lordps

In obedience to yor Lordps Order of Reference of May 11th instant upon the Petition of Iohn Walker, I humbly represent that Mr Iustus Brandshagen received 60li before his going down into Scotland to survey Sr Iohn Ereskin's mine & was further paid 129li for 129 days after the rate of 20s per diem during his stay in Scotland upon this serviceso near 129 days, & 25li in discharge of some other bills {illeg}for clearing the Mine of rubbi{illeg}sh. {sic} fitting up a place for making the assays & some other charges there. And that upon my paying to him the last part of this money he gave me a receipt in full of all accounts. This was Aug. 16 1717. But when he gave in his account to yor Lordps which was May 17th 1717, he recconed 20sh per diem due to him till Aprill 29th preceding, on wch day he delivered the Report concerning the Mine to yor Lordsps, wch was for 71days longer then it wa{illeg}s allowed to him. For by the Princes Warrant it was due to him only till Febr. 18th preceding, that being the day on wch he & Iames Hamilton left Edinburgh wth Iames Hamilton in their journey to gone return to London And as for the charge of theirhis their journeys backward forwarsds & backwards, that was included in the allowance wch hath already been made to them as is expresed in yor Lordps Warrant to the Earl of Halifax dated 24 Iuly, 1717 for ussing money to discharge their Account.: tThe sixty pounds imprest to him in the beginning Brandshagen & the thirty to Hamilton before they went down to Scotland, includinedg this charge, as may be understood also by yor Lordps Warrant to the Earl of Halifax dated 5th Septem. 1716.

So thenHence tThe 271li set down by Mr Brandshagen in the first of the three Articles annexed this P {illeg}to Mr Walkers Petition, & the 35li 10s set down in the second Article, were as due to him were therefore not due to him,. {illeg} tThe 6li. 18s. in the third Articles should be 6li 8s. & this summ hath been already pair to him. And I know nothing more due to him from the Crown. Nor have I yet seen his Note to Mr Walker for the ten pounds ten shillings borrowed of him {illeg}

All wch is most humbly submitted to your Lordps wgreat wisdom

Is. Newton