Further holograph draft of MINT00468 (Mint 19/3/146), dated November 1718

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Our Will & pleasure is & We do hereby authorize & command you, out of such moneys as pursuant to an Act of Parliament made in the first year of our reign & entituled An Act to continue Duties for encouraging the coinage of money, &c & shall be issued unto you out of our Exchequer by the Lord High Treasurer or any three or more of the Commissioners of our Treasury for the time being by way of imprest & upon account for the use & service of our said Mint, to pay unto the Officers of our said Mint their salaries commencing from Christmas which was in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & fourteen, according to the following yearly allowances, that is to say, reserving to your self the salary of 300li per annum, & paying yearly to the Master 200li, to the Principal Warden 150li to the Counter Warden or Comptroller 60li, to the Assaymaster 100li to the Sinker or Graver 50li, to the Kings Clerk & Clerk of the Papers & irons 40li, & to the master Smith 30li, all which payments amount unto 930li annually, & that you are to make these payments by four equal portions at Lady day, Midsummer Michaelmas & Christmas. And our further will & pleasure is that out of the aforesaid moneyes you do also pay all charges of coinage & all charges of keeping the Offices of the said Mint & the coining Tools in repair & the dwelling houses of the Officers within the said Mint wind & water tite, charges being first duly examined & allowed by the said Master, Warden, & Counter-Warden, under their hands; & that you make up your Accounts annually of all your receipts & payments. And our further Will & pleasure is & We do hereby authorise & command you that you & the Master of our said Mint cause our moneys of Gold & Silver be coined according to the Rules & directions set down in the Indenture made between our late deare sister Queen Anne & John Montgomerie Es Master of our said Mint untill a new Indenture shall be made & that they be of the same weight & fineness & form as the money coined in our Mint in the Tower of London, & that you & all the Officers Moneyers & Ministers of our said Mint do so long conform your selves in all things to the Rules & directions conteined in the said Indenture. And for so doing this shall be your sufficient Warrant. Given at our Court at St James's the      day of November 1718, in the fift year of our Reign

To the Right Honourable our Trusty & well beloved Cousin
Charles Earl of Lauderdale, General
of our Mint in Scotland.

< insertion from the left margin > to cause our moneys of gold & silver to be coined in our said Mint of the same form with our moneys coined in England & that the letter E be set under our Effigies to distinguish the moneys coined at Edinburgh from those coined at London, & that you & the Master & all the Officers < text from f 205r resumes > < insertion from the top of f 205r > Moneyers & Ministers of our said Mint do conform your selves in all things to these presents & to the Rules & directions set down in the Indenture made between our dear Sister Queen Ann & John Montgomerie Es Master of our said Mint untill a new Indenture shall be made excepting such alterations as have since been made by Act of Parliament or are now made by these presents. And for so < text from f 205r resumes >