Holograph draft of MINT00677 (Mint 19/3/476)

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To the Right Honourable the Lord High Treasurer of England.

May it please your Lordship

In obedience to your Lordship Order I have considered what may be requisite for lodging her Majesties Tin in the Mint & delivering it out at a certain price & paying the money into the Exchequer & am humbly of opinion that it may be performed by anyone of the Officers of the Mint under the Inspection of or more of their Clerks to enter the number & weight of the Blocks of Tin received & delivered, & compute the price, & with a Storehouse keeper & one or more Porters as there shall be occasion. The use of the Tower Wharf with the Cranes of the Office of Ordinance & liberty of carrying the Tin into & out of the Mint over the draw bridge, & an Officer of the Customes to attend ships will be also requisite.

Some things are also to be provided as Scales, Weights, Sledges, Pulleys & stamps for numbering the Blocks. And it may be convenient that their weight be stamped upon them either in Cornwall or at their Receipt in the Tower

And since the Blocks are to be delivered out at a certain price, I am humbly of opinion that they should be delivered as they come to hand without giving leave to the Merchant to pick & chuse & without trusting for te money (setting aside only such blocks as may happen to be unlawfull) & that the money received for them be paid into the Exchequer as often as it arises to a certain summ to be named by your Lordship & be accounted for annually.

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and with the use of the Cranes of the Office of Ordnance & of the Master & Workers Offices & Rooms so far as they are wanted & can be spared from the coynage, & liberty of carrying the Tin between Tower Wharf & the Mint over the draw-bridge an Officer of the Customes attending the ships.