Draft of MINT00465 (Mint 19/3/199)

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To the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury

May it please your Lordships

In obedience to your Lordships Order of Reference of May 26th last, upon the Petition of Mr William Hamilton for being restored to his Place in his Majesty's Mint at Edinburgh: I humbly represent that he who had been Clerk of the Bullion for the Mint in Scotland before the Vnion of the two kingdoms & who by this Petition appeares to be the Petitioner was upon the ceasing of that place by the Vnion, & in recompence for the loss thereof, made an Officer in the present Mint in Scotland with a Salary of 50li per annum, that salary having been allowed him before as Clerk of the Bullion & I find him entred in the list of the Officers of that Mint annexed to the Indenture made between her late Majesty Queen Ann & John Montgomery Es Master & Worker of that Mint in these words: To the Clerk of the Bullion, as Assistant to the Weigher & Teller & Surveyor of the Meltings fifty pounds per annum But that Indenture becoming void by the death of her said Majesty, & no grant of that place from his present Majesty being entred in the books of the Treasury, & it not appearing that he was alive nor what was his name: he was omitted in the Warrant lately directed to the General of that Mint for continuing the said Indenture in force. But since it now appears that he is alive, if in consideration of the services mentioned in his Petition his Majesty shall think fit to restore him to that place, it may be done by a Warrant under his Majesty's signe Manual directed to the said General for supplying the omission in the late Warrant directed to him as above. All which &c