Holograph draft of MINT00566 (Mint 19/2/555)

Whereas pursuant to a Warrant sign'd by her Majesty in that behalf, the Officers of the Mint did receive from sundry persons diverse Quantities of Plate in order to coined & gave Receipts for the same expressing the value thereof at the rates voted by the House of Commons & specified in the said Warrant. And whereas the Parliment have made no provision for satisfying the Difference between the said value & the produce of the said Plate received after the 14th day of May last: My Lord Treasurer doth consent & agree on her Majestys behalf. That if the said Officers of the Mint or any of them shall for the accommodation of the Importers of the said Plate pay to them respectively so much as the said difference amounts unto or any part thereof, the same shall be repaid to him or them Out of her Majestys Civil List money by Christmas next, if the Parliament shall not have provided for the same before that time.