Reply to complaints about the demolition of the smith's house
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By direction of the Rt Honble {illeg}Henry Earle of Romney Master Genl of his Mats Ordnance This is to {illeg}acquaint you that his Lordp will give an answer to yor Report concerning ye House belonging to ye Smith of this Office in the Mint when it shall be laid before the Treasury and sent by their Lordps to him, and for ye Title he has so clear a one, that there can be no dispute thereof the possession wch can be fully proved having bin time out of mind in the Office. We are
Yor humble servants
C Musgrave
Ion Charlton
Wm Boulter
Office of Ordance 2d Decr 1699.
Source
MINT 19/3/412, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK2 December 1699, c. 112 words.