Offers to accept a ton or two of copper per month from Wood after the expiry of the Hines/Appleby contract, provided it is the type of copper of which he has already submitted specimens; otherwise new specimens are required first

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To the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of his Majestys Treasury.

May it please your Lordships

In Obedience to your Lordships Order of Referece that I should report my opinion upon the Petition of Mr Wm Wood for a Warrant to furnish the Mint with fine copper in barrs duly sized at 17$\frac{\mathrm{1}}{\mathrm{2}}$d per pound weight after the 30 Tonns agreed for at 18d per pound weight to be coined, I humbly represent that if Mr Wood will furnish the Mint with such copper, prepared by the battering Mills, as the specimen was which I had of him, I am ready to receive a Tonn or two every Month at that price till next Michaelmass or longer if there be occasion. But if he intends to prepare it some other way, of which he has not yet given me a specimen, I desire that a specimen of such work as he intends to furnish me with may be sent into the Mint to be assayed before he begins to bring in a great quantity.

All which is most humbly submitted to your Lordships great wisdom