Copy of letter to the Chester Mint requesting account of hammered monies received and of monies paid out
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To the officers of his Majesties Mint in Chester
Gentlemen
The Lords Commissioners of his Majesties Treasury have directed us by Express Order of the 18th. Instant; to appoint you to send up to Vs forthwith the whole Number of Ounces you have received in Hammer'd Moneys on the Customes & Excise, to this time, with the severall Receivers & Collectors Names, & what you have paid them in new Monies And you are to continue to send us the like Account Weekely without faile, that it may be transmitted Elsewhere by
Gentlemen
Your Loving Friends
Is: Newton
Tho: Neale
Dan: Brattell
London Mint office May 20th. 97
Source
MINT 10/2/37v, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK20 May 1697, c. 108 words.