Further to an enquiry by the warden [Craven Peyton], recommend he continue to be allowed a clerk-cum-solicitor to assist in prosecuting counterfeiters. Details of recommended salary and permissible expenses for the post

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To the Right honourable the Lords Comissioners of his Majesties Treasury

May it please your Lordshipps.

In obedience to your Lordshipps Order of Reference of Iune 16°: last Vpon the Memoriall of the Warden of his Majesties Mint Concerning a Clerk to be allowed him for assisting him in the prosecution of Clippers & Counterfeiters of the Coine And concerning the Moneys to beare the Charges of such prosecutions And the method of accounting for the same Wee humbly represent to your Lordshipps That the late Wardens have been allow'd such a Clerk And have been supply'd with money's partly by a privy Seale Impowering them to seize the Forfeited Estates of Convicted Criminalls And partly out of the Civill List Money Vntill an allowance not Exceeding £400: per Annum Made out of the Coinage Money by Act of Parliament for Carrying on this Service.

Wee are therefore humbly of Opinion That the Warden of the Mint Doe find out a fitt person to attend him as Clerk & Sollicitor to draw up Informations & Warrants And Enter them into Books And attend prosecutions at the Old Bailey & Assizes And that this Officer be allow'd a Sallery of £60: per Annum as formerly And that upon being sent into the Country to apprehend and prosecute Offenders Hee be further allow'd 15s: per day Travelling Charges for himselfe & his horse And such other persons as shall be sent upon the like services Be allow'd for themselves & their Horses Such Travelling Charges as the Warden shall allow of Not exceeding 10s: per day to the two principall of them And 8s: per day to the rest And that in lieu of Pocket Expences Coach hire Fees of Courts Charges of Wittnesses And such other incident Expences as cannot be ascertained by good Vouchers or would perplex the Accounts There be Allow'd for ev'ry House Searcht in London the summ of 10s: And in the Country the sum of 25s: and for ev'ry person apprehended & brought before a Iustice of Peace And Comitted to prison in London the summ of 10s: And in the Country the summ of 25s: To be equally divided between the persons who Search or apprehend & carry to prison And for ev'ry person Indicted & Tryed in London the summ of 50s: And in the Country the summ of £4: To him or them who by the Warden's order shall sollicitt & mannage the prosecution Besides Councellours Fees provided there be soe many Witnesses as may justify the bringing the person accus'd to a Tryall.

Wee are also humbly of opinion That the Master & Worker of the Mint be impower'd by a Sign Manual to pay the Sallery of the said Clerk or Sollicitor Quarterly as it shall become due And to advance to him such summes of Money from time to time as by allowance or order under the Warden's hand hee the said Sollicitor shall desire or demand for Carrying on the Prosecutions Not exceeding in the Whole £200 per Annum And to pay what shall be further due to the said Sollicitor upon his accounts duely stated and allow'd And that the Auditors of the Mint be directed & requir'd in the said Signe Manuall To allow in the Accounts of the Master & Worker All the said payments Not exceeding in the whole the summ of £400 per Annum allow'd by Act of Parliament for this service.

And wee are further humbly of opinion that the Sollicitor doe at the end of every halfe yeare Lay before the Master & Comptroller of the Mint An Account of the Services perform'd by him or his assistants Vpon which any Money's be due Or have been paid to him or them With a Certificate from the Warden in Writeing That those Services were done by his Order And alsoe a Bill or Bills for all Money's due or paid to him or others for these services According to the Allowances abovementioned Together with Receipts for Money paid to others And also a Bill or Bills of Money's paid for Councellor's Fees Extraordinary Habeas Corpus's Lord Chiefe Iustices Warrants &c And that he incert nothing into those Bills without Receipts or other good Vouchers for the same Nothing for Country people assisting in searching Houses and in apprehending & Carrying to prison persons suspected or Accus'd And that the Master & Worker & the Comptroller Doe Examine & Signe those Bills as Vouchers to the Annuall Accounts of the said Sollicitor And that at the end of ev'ry yeare The said Sollicitor doe lay his account for that year first before the Warden of the Mint to be Examin'd & Sign'd And then before the Lord High Treasurer Or Lords Comissioners of the Treasury for their approbation <450v> Or direction how the same shall be Auditted stated Allow'd & discharg'd.

And if the accountant Craves any augmentation of any Allowance for Services Not within the Rules abovementioned That the same be laid before the Lord High Treasurer or Lords Comissioners of the Treasury Att the end of his account.

All which is most humbly Submitted to your Lordshipps great wisdome.

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Isaac Newton

M: Bladen

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5°: Iuly 1715:

Copy of a Report of the Master & Comptroller of the Mint

To the Lords of the Treasury.

Concerneing prosecutions &c