Petition for payment up to Michaelmas 1698 and travelling expenses

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To the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of &ct.

The humble petition of the Officer of the 5 late Country Mints one behalfe of themselves & some others &ct.

Sheweth

That whereas your Lordships were pleased to appoint & establish sallary's for persons belonging unto the said Mints in the Year 1696. And accordingly your Petitioners haveing duely attended that service in their respective stations untill next Michaelmas last 98 and have since been employed untill this time in Examining their severall Mints accounts (which is still a continued charge unto your Petitioners) and that their Charges were great in goeing up and down to their respective places, and continuance there above 2 years without any other recompence or allowance than their base sallary's only (which were but small) and their charge and business farr greater than was supposed or expected: And that they have been paid their said sallary's no farther than Midsummer last, And that the said Countrey Mints Accounts are as yet not passed nor Audited, And that your Petitioners bonds given unto his Majesty for the faithfull discharge of their respective trusts lyeing out against them untill the said Accounts be compleatly finished.

Wherefore your Petitioners most humbly prayes your Lordships would please to take their case into consideration by ordering the payment of their Michaelmas sallary with such further allowances for their jorneys forwards and Backwards, and other extraordinary Expences &ct. as your Lordships shall think fit. And also that your Accounts may be speedily Audited, Whereupon your Petitioners may have up their securities, so as they may be the better enabled to pay their debts contracted in the said service, and return unto their severall abodes.

And yours &c