Holograph draft of MINT00357 (Mint 19/3/15-16)
| One set of Bell weights for Gold 36lwt | 20. | 0. | 0 |
| One set of Bell weights for silver 81lwt | 4. | 10. | 0 |
| Two sets of penny weights & grains & coyn weights | 0. | 4. | 6 |
| One douzen of sizing scales with counter-poizes at 11s a piece | 6. | 12. | 0 |
| One pair of cast Rollers | |||
| One set of brass patterns for casting the ☉ & ☾ |
If more sets of these things be wanted they may be either brought in shops or made in Scotland by these patterns
In obedience to your Lordships Order of the 3d Instant we have considered the Inventory therewith sending of Tools & other necessarys proposed to be provided in London for the use of her Majesties Mint in Scotland, & are humbly of Opinion that besides the two Pyles of Standard weights, two trial pieces for crown gold & two trial pieces for standard silver mentioned in our last report, it may be convenient to send to them from her Majesties Mint in the Tower the things which we have here set down weight their prizes as follows
Two sets of bell weights one for gold, & one for silver.
Two sets of penny weights & grains & two of Coyn-weights.
One douzen of sizing scales with counterpoizes
Or pair of cast Roller for a pattern to make others by
Two sets of brass patterns for casting:
The blisterd steel, the German steel, the Mercury, Alume, winestone, Charcoal, Bone ashes, Coppel moulds, Mufflers, Essay ballances, Brass Calms, Books of Vellum, files, Brushes, Table vices, Grindstones, Oyle stones & sweep-milnes are useful in coyning & may be provided by the Officers of that Mint as formerly, they being to be had in shops, & the new Mint not differing in these things from the old.
What they mean by a sizeing Miln & Iusting flots we do not understand, having no such names of tools in use amongst us
<76v>| Blistered Steel at 4d per pound weight | 10. 10. 00 | |
| German steel at 8d or 10d or 12d per pound weight | 09. 06. 08 | |
| Steel 700lwt 200 at about 8d 10g or 1s per pound weight according to your goodness & scarcity & 500 at 4 | } | 20li. 00. 00 |
| Four pair of cast Rollers at 6li a pair | 24. 00. 00 | |
| Two douzen of large scratch brushes | 1. 12. 00 | |
| One douzen of large Scratches the one half thereof of Wier | } | |
| Twenty four dozen of Iusting Flots (if Rasps for siseing be hereby meant) at 1li. 16s per dozen | } | 43. 4. 00 |
| Twelve dozen of hard hand brushes at 3d a piece with one dozen of soft brushes at about 6d a piece | } | 2. 02. 00 |
| Fifty pounds weightt of Mercury at 6s per pound weight | 15. 00. 00 | |
| Brass Patterns for making molds for casting the barrs at 1lib per sett | } | |
| Five hundred pound weightt of Alume at 22s per cwtwt & two hundred pound weight of red-winestone at per pound weight | } | |
| One sweep Mill 6li | 6li | |
| One sizing Mill (if a justening Mill be hereby meant | ||
| One Pyle of Weights with the divisions of the penny weight from the ounce | } | 2. 10. 00 |
| Two dozen of sizeing scales and counterpoises at 10li per douzen | 20. 00. 00 | |
| A pair of Gold scales with a stand | 7. 10. 00 | |
| An hundred bushels of Charcoal at 10d per bushel | 4. 3 4 | |
| Bone ashes 30 bushells at about 12s per bushel | 18. 00. 00 | |
| Two Assay ballances with standarts & Lanthorns & weights at 5li a Ballance & 2li weights | } | 14. 00. 00 |
| A Table Vice at 1s per pound weight | 2. 10. 00 | |
| Two Copel moulds 10s five douzen of Muffles about 1li 5s | 1. 15. 00 | |
| A pair of Brass Calms a foot long for casting assay bullets | 0. 07 00 | |
| Three douzen of hand files 1l. 15s, two douzen of round files 1li 10s, ons dozen of half round files 15s, one dozen of douce files 3li. 0s | } | 7. 00. 00 |
| Two large books of fine Vellum at 1s 6 a fine small skin which makes a leafe, & 80 leaves in a book | } | 12. 00. 00 |
| Two Grindstones | 1. 00. 00 | |
| For the Graver two Oylestones 1li tne files 1li. 16s six small scratch brushes 12s | } | 3. 08. 00 |
| An iron mold a foot long for casting assay bullets is worth about 5s, a brass one may be worth 6 or 8s. | ||
Two Pyles of Standard weights & tryal pieces are already reported necessary.
Two sets of great weights one for gold the other fold silver
Two sets of penny weights & grains & two of coyn-weights
One douzen of sizing scales with counterpoizes.
Two pair of cast Rollers for patterns to make others by.
One Assay Ballance with standarts & assay weights.
A pair of brass Calms.
Brass Patterns for casting
A sweep Miln.
A siseing Miln.
The steel, Mercury, Alume & Wynestone are merchantable commodities & may be hand in Scotland as formerly & so may the files, flotts, Brushes, Charcoal, Bone ashes, Table Vices, Copel moulds, Mufflers, Books of Vellum, Grindstones, Oylestones, Sweep-millns brass Calms & Assay Ballances. In these things the new Mint will not differ from the old.
Source
MINT 19/3/76-7, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UKc. 12 April 1707, c. 941 words.