Draft of MINT00662 (Mint 19/2/448)

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In obedience to yor Lordps order of Reference upon the ReMemorial of Mr Appleby & Mr Hines I have considered the same & humbly represent that

Copper money

Fine Copper will not run close into Barrs but requires either to be either battered or rolled thin by a Mill, & the cheapest way is to roll it. But a horse mill being too weak & too chargeable for this purpose I advised Mr Applebly & Mr Hines to procure a water Mill, & to encouraged them to do it I promised them to give them no disturbance my self so long as they kept to their covenants in the copper wch they brought to me. But as to my superiors I told at the same time I told them that I could engage nothing for my superiors. Hereupon they took a water mill neare Maiden head 3 or 4 miles above Windsor at the rent of 50li per an for three years from midsummer last, besides a fine of 20 Guineas & 75li paid for Tools prepared by Mr Eyes there by Mr Ayres. {sic}. They took also another little place neare it for a warehouse & lodging room & room for building a refining furnace at 12li pr an & the furnace cost them almost 40li in building it as they informe me, &besides ☉ beds & furniture for servants the Rolls & Molds & other tools wch cost them above 200li as they represent. And when a stop was put to the coinage I informed your Lordps that 25 Tons of money was coined & delivered besides what was ready to be delivered, of wch I did not then know the just quantity: bBut it amounted unto 246 hundred weight. {illeg}And as much copper in plates was brought into the mint other that day or the day before as made 26 hundred weight {illeg}more: so that there hath been coined 27 Tuns 12 C weight. There was also at that time 425 C more brought down the river ready to be imported & 45 TuC more left at the Mill ready to be brought down & importedin pickle, & 35 C rolled but not cleaned, & 44$\frac{\mathrm{3}}{\mathrm{4}}$ C more rolled hot but not yet rolledcold And in Brockage Scissel & Cakes 128 C. 2Q. Besides 20 Tunns wch they tell me they have contracted for under hand & seale.† The Rolls hitherto used at the said were rough, [ & [upon complaining much of the roughness of the barrscopper imported, they were procuring smoother rolls when the copper was coinage was stopped & tell me that they have procured them.] & by their roughness occasioned much complaint of them, but the assured me that they Rolls have now procured smooth rolls. [They pay to four three servants 10s a piece per wekek & 9s to a fourth durigng {sic} this interruption of their {illeg} coinage.]

☉ besides the charge of Beds & Mo furniture for servants & the charge of new Rolls & other Tools now molds for casting the copper& boxes for the copper & other utensills amounting to above {illeg}80li. And during the cessation of the coinage they pay 39s per week [to a Clerk & Refiner & two other servants] retaining wages to a Clerk & Refiner & two other servants.

When a stop was put to this coinage – – smooth rolls.

Vpon the whole it seems to me that considering{illeg}② the demand of copper money by the people {illeg}& ① the charge that the importers of copper have been at, & &the coinage be no longer sta discontinued; that the 25 C of copper Barrs brought down the river to be imported when the coinage was stopt & 45 & then in pickle & now pickled {illeg}be forthwith imported, provided they copper beare the assays prescribed, & that the 35 C rolled but not cleaned be cleaned & also imported. And that after this in the mean time {illeg}Mr Briggs & Mr Richardson deliver in their proposals to your Lordps foor coining the money of finer copper & the Assay by wch their copper shall appear if to be finer. And then their Proposals may be considered compared with what the present Importers will undertake for the future.