Holograph list of proposed amendments to the Mint indenture, including an additional remedy of one grain for every ten quarter-guineas
Pag. 3. lin. 15 Mint or Mints in great Britain.
Ibid lin 31 Mint or Mints in the said Kingdom of England.
Pag 4. lin 10. five sorts of money of Crown Gold. One Piece which shall be called the running for five shillings & three pence sterling, & there shall be one hundred & seventy & eight of those in the pound weight Troy.
Pag. 19. lin 19 add: & the eighth part of a grain from the counterpoise of the five shillings & three pence piece. And by reason of the difficulty of sizing the small pieces of five shillings & three pence exactly His Majesty doth hereby appoint & ordern that the Remedy above mentioned of the sixt part of a carat, be enlarged by allowing in weight one grain more for every ten pieces in the pound weight tried
Pag. 3. l. 24 add excepting only such summs as shall be applied to the prosecuting of those who diminish or ocounterfeit the current coins not exceeding four hundred pounds in any one year.
Source
MINT 19/1/420, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UKBefore 6 May 1718, c. 246 words.