Allocation of poundage to the various Mint officers in London and Edinburgh, with two copies of a list of Edinburgh salaries and a further draft of MINT00442 (Mint 19/3/81-93)

Author: Newton, Isaac

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In the Mint the Tower

For coinage of Silver

To the Master of the Mint for coinage per pound weight 16d12

To the Moneyers for coinage per pound weight 8d from the Master, & 1d from the Queen if the Moneys be well coined.

To the Engineer per pound weight 112d

To the Smith per pound weight one farthing.

For the coinage of Gold.

To the Master per pound weight 6s 6d.

To the Moneyers from the Master per pound weight 3s.

To the Engineer 6d.

To the Smith 1d per pound weight.

Salaries in the Mint in the Tower




Salaries in the Mint at Edinburgh.

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To the General 300.00.00
To the Master 200.00.00
To the Warden 150.
To the Counter warden 60
Assaymaster 100
Engraver 50
× Clerk to the Bullion × 50
Smith 30
Queens Clerk 40
Masters Clerk 40
Wardens Clerk 40
Counterwardens Clerk 40
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For coinage of silver

Vpon the pound weight Scottish 20d scot which answers 19d + per pound weight english

From the Master to the Engineer upon the Stone weight Scottish 2d Scottish.

For the coinage of Gold

To the Master upon the pound weight scottish

And the said John Montgomerie doth further covenant & agree to & with her said Majesty that whenever her Majesty by her signe manual shall authorise & direct him to provide & employ Moneyers for carrying on the coinage in the said Mint at Edinburgh he will procure & imply as Moneyers two or more workmen skilled & exercised in the operations of milling, cutting, sizing nealing blanching edging & stamping the moneys of gold & silver & pay them for their work after such rates as her Majesty shall appoint not exceeding 9d by the pound weight Troy of all the silver money & 3s 2d by the pound weight Troy of all the gold moneys which shall be coyn by them. And her Majesty doth hereby appoints & ordeins that the said moneyers so to be imployed shall enjoy the same privileges & be subject to all the same rules orders & penalties as the Moneyers in her Majestys Mint in the Tower of London respectively.

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And her Majesties further ordeins that whenever the right honourable the Lords commissioners of her Majesties Treasury or Lord high Treasurer for the time being shall give a direction for the carrying on the coynage in the said Mint by moneyers the said John Montgomery shall provide two or more persons skilled in the art of coinage to be imployed as moneyers for performing the Coinage in the said Mint at Edinburgh & to take apprentices & be under all the same rules & directions in the said Mint at Edinburgh as the moneyers in her Majesties mint in the Tower are subject unto, & that the said John Montgomery out of the allowance made to him by her Majesty for coinage shall pay unto the said Moneyers for coynage such price by the pound weight as her Majesty shall appoint.

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A Schedule or Table of the Fees 7amp; Salaries of the Officers of her Majesties Mint at Edinburgh.

To the General 300
To the Master 200
To him more for a Clerk after the next voidance of his Clerks place 30
To the next Warden 100
To him for a Clerk after the next voidance of his Clerks place 30
To the Counter Warden or Comptroller surveyer of the meltings & Clerk of th irons } 80
To him for a Clerk after the next voidance of his Clerks place 30
To the Weigher & Teller now Clerk of the Bullion 50
To the Graver & Sinker 50
To the Queens Clerk & Clerk of the papers 40
To the Smith 30
To the Master for his next Clerk 30
To the Warden for his next Clerk 30
To the Comptroller for his next Clerk 30
1040
To the weigher & teller after the voidance of the place of the Clerk of the Bullion who shall execute the office of Weigher & teller during his Clerkship. } 40.