"Report of the Officers of the Mint upon Sir Theodore Janssen's proposal to carry 150 tuns of Tin to the Streights"

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To the Rt Honble ye Earl of Oxford & Earl Mortimer Ld High Treasurer of great Britain

May it please yor Lordp

In obedience to the annexed Order of Reference of the Rt Honble the Lords Commrs of her Majties Treasury of the 8th instant, upon a proposal of Sr Theodore Ianssen to take any quantity of Tin not exceeding 2150 Tunns, to be delivered to his Order at Leghorn & Genoa after the rate of four pounds & tenn shillings per Tunn Hundred weight to be paid one third part thereof upon the delivery of the Tin, another third part three months after & the last third part six months after, provided the quantity delivered at Genoa doth not exceed one third part of the whole: We humbly represent that the proposal is the best that We have met with & may be accepted, if your Lordp pleases, as soon as there is an opportunity of sending such a quantity of Tin to Leghorn & Genoa in her Majesties bottoms, provided the payments be made for so much Tin as shall be delivered from time to time without staying for the whole, if it should happen that any part should accidentally remain behind.

All wch is most humbly submitted to your Lordps

great wisdome.

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C: Peyton

Is. Newton

In Ellis

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<text in Unknown Hand begins>Report of the Officers of the Mint upon Sr. Theod. Iansen's proposall to Carry 150tuns of Tin to ye Streights
6 Iune 1711