Further holograph draft of MINT00563 (Mint 19/2/522)

Whereas upon the Votes & Address of our Commons in Parliament assembled, We did by Warrant under our signe manual dated May 10th last past, authorise & command the Warden Master & Comptroller of our Mint in the Tower of London to take & receive from all persons & bodies politick or corporate all such wrought plate as they or any of them should bring to our said Mint, of the kinds & standards mentioned in the said votes, & to give such receipts for the same as were desired in the said Address of our Commons & forthwith to cause the same to be melted down & assayed, & that you the Master & Worker of our said Mint should immediately coin the same into shillings & sixpences & pay the moneys produced into the receipt of our Exchequer & take Tallys for your discharge; And whereas in the Act of Parliament for contributing a summ not exceed two millions, entituled An Act for licencing Hackney Coaches &c, it is enacted that all & every the Receipts given for the plate brought into the said Mint before the 15th day of May 1711 shall be accepted & taken as so much money for contributions upon the said Act, but no provision is made for accepting the Receipts dated on or after the said 15th day of May: Now that our loving subjects may not want the use of both the Receipts & the new moneys coined out of their plate Our will & pleasure is & we do hereby authorize & command you the said Master & Worker of our Mint forthwith to pay unto each of the Importers of Plate whose Receipts are dated on or after the said 15th day of May, after the rate of five shillings per ounce of plate imported; any thing in our former Warrant to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. And for so doing this shall be your Warrant.