As the clerks' salaries have not changed in the last sixty years, recommends a 25% increase
To the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of his Majesties Treasury.
May it please your Lordships
The Porter of the Mint being lately dead, I ordered one Robert Lowe to do the business till a new Porter should be appointed The Place was formerly a Patent place, but the house belonging to it is taken away & the salary is only 20li per annum. Which being too little for bearing the charges of a Patent I humbly pray that a Porter may be appointer by a Constitution. Robert Lowe hath hitherto behaved himself with great diligence, & I humbly pray that he may be appointed if your Lordships think fit.
All which &c
To the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of his Majestys Treasury.
May it please your Lordships
The salaries of the Clerks of the Mint which were setled about 60 years ago, being now not sufficient for their maintenance I humbly pray that they may be augmented by about a quarter so that the salaries of the Wardens Clerk, of my three Clerks & of the Comptrollers Clerk which are 40li each per annum may become 50li each, And that those of the Assaymasters Clerk & of the Purveyer to the Mint which are 20li. each per annum may become 25li each. And those of the Clerks of the weigher & Teller & of the Clerk of the surveyor of the melting which are 10li each per annum may become 12li 10s each. All which is most humbly submitted.
May it please your Lordships
Mr In Croker Graver to the Mint havine taken one Beresford to be his Apprentice, & the time of his Apprentiship being lately expired & the said Beresford now working under Mr Croker as journey-man: I humbly pray that Mr Croker may be allowed 30li per annum for the maintenance of the said Beresford as in a former case of the like nature.
<220v>Mary Andrews served me as a Cook about two years & did my business to my satisfaction, & (so far as I know) behaved her self honestly but upon a falling but between her & another servant I parted with her.
Is. Newton
Source
MINT 19/1/220, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK26 June 1722, c. 399 words.