Draft of MINT00561 (Mint 19/2/561)

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To the Right Honble the Lord H. Treasurer of g. Britain.

May it please your Lordp

{illeg}Her Majty having by her Warrant udner her signe manual d{illeg}d{illeg} dated      directed me to pay the new moneys produced of plate into the Receipt {illeg}of the Exchequer, &

Her Maty upon the votes & {illeg}adre{illeg}ss {sic} of the House of Commons having by her signe manual Warrant under her signe manual directed the {illeg} Wa{illeg}rden {illeg}Master & cComptroller of ther Mint to receive plate into the said Mint & to give receipts for the same after the rate of 5s 5d per ounce for plate the old standard, 5s 8d per oz for plate of the new standa{illeg}rd & 5s 6d pr oz for uncert{illeg}ain plate first reduced to standard, & & directed {illeg} & having directed me [the Master & Worker of the said Mint] to coine the same {illeg}& pay the money produced into her MatsMint ye Receipt of ye Excheqr [& take Tallies for the same my discharge,]but the Parliament not have yet enacted the taking to the said receipsts in the e{illeg}excher excheqr dated after 14th day of May, & {sic} & yet the moneys not being payable into ye Exchequer wch cannot be done utill {sic} the said Receipts thereof ofof the Plate [given by the said Officers of the Mint not bein can be re at the rates above mentioned can be taken at the said Exchequer at th{illeg}ree rates above mentioned & the Parliament hathving not yet enacted the taking of those receipts that the {illeg} receipts dated after the 154th day of May shall be taken there at those rates {illeg}f{illeg} dated after the 14th day of M{illeg}ay, [& a considerable quantity of plate hathhaving been received into the Mint between the 14th of May & 20th of Iune & melted down into ingots to be coined. & I humbly lay before your Lordp that the Impo{illeg}rters will lose the interest of their money if it remain in my hands untill the Parliamentsaid Warrant on            & further they sha next {illeg}sessions of Parliamt:: I humly& therefore pray yor Lordp that I may be sufficiently authorized by her Mat a Warra under her Majts signe Manual to {illeg}pay to the said Importers the moneys p{illeg}roduced out of their samePlate or any part thereof in proportion to the weight imported. of every species of plate imported them, & theto take their Receipts for my discharge in my Accounts of so much moneys paid

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{illeg}And not only Officers were admitted into their Offices by imposition of hands, but even all Christians believers, after they had {illeg}been admitted by bapti{illeg}sm of repenttances & remission of sin into the number of the disciples of Christ at large theythen were y impositions of handsadmitted & incorporated into asome {illeg} synagogue by the laying on of ye hands of the Presbytery: wch of that Synagogue:  wch ceremony we may call Confirmation & i{illeg}f they were therefore those that were excommunicated or cast out of the Synagogue by excommunication or revolted from the synagogue to any heretical communion, were not readmitted into the synagogue without the same ceremony of lay{illeg}ing on of the hands of the Bishop & Presbytery. The bishop first laid on his hand & then the rest of t Presby there did the like, & this ceremony was not performed among the Iews by fewer then three.