Memoranda on accounting, checking and packing

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The Master receives money out of ye Treas{illeg}ury for paying for copper coynage & incident charges, for wch ishe is charged by his receipt.

The master receives blanks by Tunns & pays for the same according to contracts made between the Officers of ye Mint & the blank-maker & is dischardgd of so much money & charged wth so many Tunns of blanks by the blank-makers receipts.

The Master delivers {illeg}so many Tunns of Copper to the Queens order for ready money & is discharged thereof by the re{illeg}ceipsts of that oOrder. And the farthings are told & put into baggs by tale & the tale mentioned in the receipts. And the Master pays the money into ye Treary & takes receipts or Tallys for it.

The Ma{illeg}ster makes up all theis account of moneys & Tinuns of Tin by those receipts & is isallowed in the account for coynage & for trouble & hazzards in charges discharges & making up the account, & incident charges.

The farthings are being delived {sic} by weight are told & out into& tale in 50s & 5£ & 10£ & baggs & &c delived {sic} in the baggs to ye Queens Order the Queens order to whomsoever will receive them at ye ye encourgement {sic} allowed to ye Receiver wch may be about or 3 pr cent put into every bag over & above the just tale, the {illeg}Receiver paying for the same at the time of the Receipt: And ye account to be made up by himthe Master who receives delivers the Copper & receives money for it he being charged wth the t{illeg}ale by ye receipts given to the Master of the Mint & discharged by the paymt of so much money to ye Treasury.

NB That the bagg{illeg}s or some of them may be weighed after telling to see how the weight & tale agree, & & how exact the clerks are in telling, & where any suspicion of error occurrs the bagg may be told over again

NB That the Assaymaster may be appointed to view the farthings wn coyned & brought up to be weighed & delivered & to examin such as he most suspects to be bad metal.

NB that the Mr coyn only so many Tunns as shall from time to time be bespoke by people who will receive them & pay ready money for them upon so soon as they are coyned.