Further draft of MINT00798 (Mint 19/3/245)

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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 Reference of May 11th instant upon the Petition of John Walker, I humbly represent that Mr Iustus Brandshagen received 60li before his going down into Scotland to survey Sir John Ereskin's mine & was further paid 129li for 129 days after the rate of 20s per diem during his stay in Scotland upon this service, & 25li in discharge of bills for clearing the Mine of rubbish, fitting up a place for making the assays & some other charges there. And that upon my paying to him the last part of this money he gave me a receipt in full of all accounts. This was Aug. 16 1717. But when he gave in his account to your Lordships which was May 17th 1717, he recconed 20sh per diem due to him till Aprill 29th preceding, on which day he delivered the Report concerning the Mine to your Lordships, which was for 71days longer then it was allowed to him. For by the Princes Warrant it was due to him only till Febr. 18th preceding, that being the day on which he & James Hamilton left Edinburgh to gone return to London And as for the charge of their journeys forwards & backwards, that was included in the allowance which hath already been made to them as is expresed in your Lordships Warrant to the Earl of Halifax dated 24 Iuly, 1717 for ussing money to discharge their Account. The sixty pounds imprest to Brandshagen & the thirty to Hamilton before they went down to Scotland, included this charge, as may be understood by your Lordships Warrant to the Earl of Halifax dated 5th Septem. 1716.

The 71li set down by Mr Brandshagen in the first of the three Articles annexed to Mr Walkers Petition, & the 35li 10s set down in the second Article, as due to him were therefore not due to him. The 6li. 18s. in the third Articles should be 6li 8s. & this summ hath been already pair to him. And I know nothing more due to him from the Crown. Nor have I yet seen his Note to Mr Walker for the ten pounds ten shillings

All which is most humbly submitted to your Lordships great wisdom

Is. Newton