Holograph draft of MINT00677 (Mint 19/3/476)

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To the Right Honourable the Lord High Treasurer of England.

May it please your Lordship

In obedience to your Lordships Order I have considered what may be requisite for lodging her Majesties Tin in the Mint & delivering it out at a certain price & paying the money into the Exchequer, and am humbly of the opinion that it may be performed by the Officer of the Mint in their proper Places with their Deputies & their Clerks to enter the nubmer & Weight of the Blocks of Tin received & delivered & compute the price & a Ware house keeper & one or more Porters as there shall be occasion: and with the use② of the Cranes of the Office of Ordnance② & that① of the Master & Worker's Officers & Rooms so far as they may be wanted & spared from the coynage, ④& liberty of carrying the Tin between Tower Wharf & the Mint over the draw Bridge, an Officer of the Customes being directed to attend the ships there.

Some things are also to be provided as Scales Weights, Sledges & Pulleys & Stamps for numbering the Blocks. And it maybe convenient that their weight be stamped on them either in Cornwall or at their receipt in the Tower.

And since the Blocks are to be delivered out at a certain price I am humbly of opinion that the they should be delivered as they ome to hand without giving leave to the Merchant to pick & chuse & without trust for the money (setting aside only unlawfull Blocks to be reexamined & remelted if any shall occurr) and that the money received for them be pad into the Exchequer as often as it arises to a certain summ to be named by your Lordship & be accounted for annually

Also a skilful Pewterer who understands the sorts qualities goodness mixtures adulterations refining improving & merchandize of Tin may be allowed if at any time desired.