Holograph draft of royal warrant to Lauderdale to settle salaries and expenses as they become due [as suggested in MINT00470 (Mint 19/3/107-8)]

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Our will & pleasure is & We do hereby authorise & command you Charles Earle of Lauderdale General of our Mint in Scotland, 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 & 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 the charges of coinage & incident charges thereof to whom they shall become due & also to pay unto the Officers of our said Mint their salaries from time to time as they shall become due to them by their Patents & according to a schedule be annexed unto the Indenture made between her late Majesty Queen Ann on the one part & John Montgomerie Es then Master & Worker of her Majestys Mint on the other part: and also to pay all reasonable bills of charges duly examined for keeping the Offices & coining tools in repair the dwelling houses of the Officers within the said Mint wind & water tite. And we do hereby charge & command you & all the Officers of our said Mint in the several stations to observe the Rules & directions set down in the said Indenture, until as new Indenture shall be made excepting only such alterations as have been made by Act of Parliament & to take care that the moneys be well & duly coined according to the said Rules

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