Draft of MINT00551 (Mint 19/2/528)

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The Officers of the Mint, or any of them, {illeg}to give receipts of the gross weight of Plate to the Importers, lock up the Plate, deliver it out in parcels by weight to the melting Pot, see that nothing else be put into the pot, take back the Ingots produc't & deliver them to the Master & Worker by weight & assay to be coyned, & the Melter to make up the deficiency of the gross weight by supplies of standard silver, the Queen allowing him the sweep &              per pound weight Troy for his wast & charges of melting.

The Master to give the Warden & Comptroller receip{illeg}ts of the said Ingots by weight & assay & to pay the produce in new moneys by weight & tale to her Maties or yor Lops Order & take Receips thereof. And all the Receipts to be cut of from Duplicates in books, & the Duplicates to be countersigned by the parties to whom the receipts are given. And the deliveries & receipts to be also entred by the Clerks of the Mint in books wch they shall keep for that purpose. And the whole Account to be past upon oath in ye next ann{illeg}ual accounts of the Warden & WMaster by the Receipts & Duplicates produced as Vouchers & by a controllment Roll.