Partial holograph draft of MINT00063 (Mint 19/1/170-71), followed by a partial holograph draft of MINT00070 (Mint 19/1/172-3)

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– to be augmented to 100li per annum after he hath improved himself by further practise.

— And that a new Graver, Probationer or Apprentice be hereafter taken into the third place with a competent salary & be allowed two rooms to lodge & work in over the great Press room & over Mr Crokers shop.

Collonel Parsons & Mr Fowler do not work themselves but only imploy others, & Mr Rosse desires to succeed Mr Harris only in his place of Graver of Seale to her Majesty for which by viewing a seal which a seal which he graved for the Dutchy of Lancaster we believe him qualified. But Mr Le Clerk is a nimble & skilful Graver for money & medals & fit to be received into the Mint if his business abroad would allow him to attend the service.

And whereas the coynage of the money requires dispatch & such Medals as the Government appoints are coyned by the Master & Worker after the same manner & by the same authority as the money we are humbly of opinion that the Gravers be obliged by a clause in their constitution to make such Designes, Embosments Puncheons & Dyes as the Master & Worker shall appoint for dispatching the coynage of both Medals & Money according to her Majestys Orders.

And upon considering that the Gravers for their & encouragement & for restraining the libery of making Medals with the Effigies of the King or Queen, have been hitherto allowed & all other persons prohibited to make such Medals: we are humbly of opinion that the Graver be obliged to set his name or the first letters thereof visibly upon his own medals & that he do not disperse any such Medals before a specimen of them hath been shewed to your Lordship. And if it be thought requisite he may be restrained from making any Medals upon state affairs unless in coppying after Meddals made by the Master & Worker according to her Majestys Orders as in the case of coronation Medals, or be other otherwise limited as your Lordship shall think fit.