Draft of MINT00551 (Mint 19/2/528)

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The Officers of the Mint or any of them or other her Majesties Order to give receipts of the gross weight of Plate to the importers, lock up the Plate in the Treasury of the Mint, deliver it out thence in parcels by weight to the melting Pot, see that nothing else be put into the Pot, take back the Ingots produced & deliver them to the Master & Worker by weight & assay to be coined; & the Melter to make up the deficiency of the gross weight by supplies of standard silver, the Queen allowing him the sweep &          per pound weight Troy for his wast & charges of melting to be paid by the Master out of the new moneys.

The Master to give the Warden & Comptroller or other her Majesties Order Receipts of the said Ingots by weight & assay & pay the produce in new moneys by standard weight & tale to her Majesties or your Lordships Order, & take Receipts thereof. And all the Receipts to be cut off from Duplicates in books & the Duplicates to be countersigned by the parties to whom the Receipts are given. And the deliveries & receipts to be also entred by the Clerks of the Mint in books which they shall keep for that purpose. And the whole Account to be past upon oath in the next annual Accounts of the Warden & Master by the vouchers aforesaid & by a Controllment Roll.

Her Majesty to authorize & command all the Officers of her Mint to act accordingly, & particularly to nominate the persons to whom the Importer shall deliver his Plate & to whom the Master shall pay the new coynd moneys by weight & tale & what shall be allowed the Melter for his charges & wast in melting.

If any difficulty arise about the Melter, the Master is willing to undertake the Charge of melter by his Deputy for whom he will be answerable, provided the Warden & Comptroller either together or by turns oversee the meltings so that no base metal may be put into the melting Pot nor brought into the melting room, nor any complaint or suspicion have place.