Copy of note ordering the Mint to deliver 150 tons of tin to the East India Company
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Officers of the Mint to deliver 250 Tons of Tyn to the East India Company
Gentlemen
The Lords Commissioners of His Majestys Treasury Command me to Acquaint You that the East India Company have agreed to buy 150 Tons of the Tyn in Your Custody at the Current Price in Order to dispose thereof in the East Indies, And their Lordships are pleased to direct, that You give all possible dispatch to the delivery thereof when it shall be required I am. &ca 9th February 1714
I Taylour
Source
T 27/21.343, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK9 Feb 1714/5, c. 89 words.