Holograph draft of MINT00357 (Mint 19/3/15-16)
| One set of Bell weights for Gold 36lwt | 20. | 0. | 0 |
| One set of Bell weights for silver 81lwt | 4. | 10. | 0 |
| Two sets of penny weights & grains & coyn weights | 0. | ||
| One douzen of sizing scales | 1 | 0 | |
| One pair of cast Rollers | |||
| One set of brass patterns for casting the ☉ & ☾ |
{illeg}If more sets of these things be wanted they may be either brought herein shops or made in {illeg}Scotland by these patterns
In obedience to yor Lops Order of ye 3d Instant we have considered the Inventory therewith sending of Tools & other necessarys proposed to be provided in London for the use of her Majties Mint in Scotland, & are humbly of Opinion that besides the {illeg} two Pyles of Standard weights, & two trial pieces for crown gold & two trial pieces for standard silver mentioned in or last report, it may be convenient to send to them from her Maties Mint in the Tower the following Tools things wch we have here set down in the following list weight their prizes as follows
Two sets of great bell weights oneone for gold, the other& two one for silver.
Two sets of penny weights & grains & two of Coyn-weights.
One d{illeg}ouzen of sizing scales with counterpoizes
Two Or pair of cast Roller for a patter{illeg}n to make others by
PTwo sets of brass patterns for casting:
The blisterd steel, Brushes {illeg}the German steel, the Mercury, Alume, winestone, Charcoal, Bone ashes, Coppel moulds, Mufflers, Essay ballances, Brass Calms, Books of Vellum, Fla Iusting Flots, files, Brushes, Table vices, Grindstones, Oyle stones & sweep-milnes are useful in coyning & may be provided by the Officers of that Mint as formerly, they being to be had in shops, & the new Mint not differing in these things from the old. However we have set down their prizes in the following schedule & are copy of the schedule sento us by yor Lops Order ready (if desired) to assist them in procuring what they want from London they paying for the same.
What they mean by a sizeing Miln & Iusting flots we do not understand, having no such names of tools in use amongst us
<76v>| Blistered S | 10. 10. 00 | |
| German steel at 8d or 10d or 12d pr lwt | 0 | |
| Steel 700lwt | } | |
| Four pair of cast Rollers at 6li a pair | 24. 00. 00 | |
| Two douzen of large scratch brushes | 1. 12. 00 | |
| One douzen of large Scratches the one half thereof of Wier | } | |
| Twenty four dozen of Iusting Flots (if | } | 43. 4. 00 |
| Twelve dozen of | } | |
| Fifty pounds wtt of Mercury at 6s pr lwt | 15. 00. 00 | |
| Brass Patterns for | } | |
| Five hundred | } | |
| One sweep Mill 6li | 6li | |
| One sizing Mill (if a | ||
| One Pyle of Weights wth the divisions of the penny wt from ye ounce | } | 2. 10. 00 |
| Two dozen of sizeing scales and counterpoises at 10li pr douzen | 20. 00. 00 | |
| A pair of Gold scales wth a | 7. 10. 00 | |
| An hundred bushels of Charcoal at 10d pr bushel | ||
| Bone ashes 30 bushells at about 12s pr bushel | 18. 00. 00 | |
| Two Assay ballances wth standarts & Lanthorns & weights at 5li a Ballance & 2li weights | } | 14. 00. 00 |
| A Table Vice at 1s pr | ||
| Two Copel moulds 10s five douzen of Muffles about 1li 5s | 1. 15. 00 | |
| A pair of Brass Calms a foot long for casting assay b | 0. 0 | |
| Three douzen of hand files 1l. 1 | } | |
| Two large books of fine Ve | } | 12. 00. 00 |
| Two Grindstones | 1. 00. 00 | |
| For the Graver two Oylestones 1li tne files 1li. | } | 3. 0 |
| An iron mold a foot long | ||
Two Pyles of Standard weights & tryal pieces are already reported necessary.
{illeg}Two sets of great weights one for gold the other fold silver
Two sets of penny weights & grains & two of coyn-weights
Two One douzen of sizing weightsscales with counterpoizes.
Four Two pair of cast Rollers for {illeg}patterns to make others by.
Two One Essay {sic} Ballances {sic} with standarts & essay {sic} weights.
A pair of brass Calms.
Brass Patterns for casting
A sweep Miln.
A siseing Miln.
The steel, Mercury, Alume,& Wynestone, are merchantable commodities & may be hand in Scotland as formerly & so may the files, flotts, Brushes, Charcoal, Bone ashes, Table Vices, Copel moulds, Mufflers, Books of Vellum, Grindstones, & Oylestones, Sweep-millns brass Calms & Essay {sic} Ballances. In these things the new Mint will not differ from ye old.
Source
MINT 19/3/76-7, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UKc. 12 April 1707, c. 941 words.