Holograph draft of MINT00543 (Mint 19/2/508)

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A. R.

Whereas our Commons in Parliament assembled did on the 1st instant resolve that for encouraging the bringing wrought Plate into Our Mint to be coined, there should be allowed to such persons as should so bring the same, after the rate of five shillings & five pence per ounce for the old standard & five shillings & eight pence per ounce for the new standard for all plate on which the mark of the Goldsmiths Company of London or any other City is set, & for uncertain Plate not so marked (being reduced to standard) after the rate of five shillings & six pence per ounce. And whereas our said Commons by their Address of the 5t instant have besought us to give directions to the Officers of our Mint to receive in all such wrought plate as should be so brought to them & to give receipts to such persons as should bring the same for the amount thereof at the several rates & prizes aforesaid & that the same be immediately coined into shillings & sixpences: Our will & pleasure is & we do hereby authorize & command that you the Master & Worker of our Mint in the Tower of London do take & receive from all persons & bodies politick or corporate all such wrought plate as they or any of them shall bring to our said Mint of the kinds & standards above mentioned & that you                              do give such Receipts for the same respectively as are desired by the said Address of our Commons & do immediately reduce to standard & coin the same into shillings & sixpences & pay the moneys produced, into the Receipt of our Exchequer & take Tallies for the same. And for so doing this shall be to you & all others herein concerned a sufficient Warrant.