Copy of order for the attendance of the Officers of the Mint at the Trial of the Pix
At the Court at St. James's 14th. May 1710
present
The Queens most Excellent Majesty in Councill
It is this day Ordered by Her Majesty in Councill that the Lords of Her Majestys Most Honourable Privy Councill, do meet at the House Inhabited by the Usher within the Receipt of Her Majestys Exchequer at Westminster, On Monday the 21st. Day of Augt. next at Nine of the Clock in the Morning for the Tryall of Her Majestys Coynes in the Pix's of the Severall Mints within this Kingdome of Great Brittain, [2]And the Right Honourable the Lord High Chancellor of Great Brittain is desired, to require the Wardens, and Company of the Goldsmiths of London to summon a Iury to give Attendance on their Lordships at the place Aforesaid, and the Right Honourable the Lord High Treasurer of Great Brittain is Desired to direct, the Warden, Master & Worker and Comptroller of Her Majestys Mint, within the Tower of London, as likewise, the General, Master and Warden of Her Majestys Mint at Edinburgh, with the rest of the officers therein Concerned to be then present
Chris: Musgrave
Source
T 17/2.189, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK14 May 1710, c. 204 words.