Draft of MINT00159 (Mint 19/1/228-9)

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Brief Observations concerning the Tryall of the moneyes in the Pix.

1. An Order of their Majesties & Council appointing a Day for the tryall of the Pix at the usuall place near the Starr Chamber at nine in the morning. And the Chancellour of the Exchequer to be attended about a Dinner for the Iury. It hath been usually provided at the Dog Tavern in the Palace yard.

2 The Lord Chancellour or Lord Keeper doth send his Letter directed to the Warden of the Company of the Goldsmiths to return the names of an able Iury.

3. The Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper after the return of the names doth send his warrant by his Sergeant at arms or his serjeants Deputy to warn the Iury to meet at the time & place appointed.

4 At nine in the morning the Pix is set on the Table & before ten

The Lords do meet & take their places

the officers of the Mint & Iury with the Exchequer Officers attending.

The Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper doth call to his Sergeant at Arms for the said Warrant for summoning of the Iury & appoints the same to be delivered to the Remembrancers Deputy who attends there with the copy of the Oath.

The Pix is opened by the Officers of the Mint & the Gold & Silver moneyes therein poured upon the Table.

And then the Lord Chancellour or Lord Keeper doth cause the Iury to be called over by their names in the said Warrant & the said Oath to be administred to the m

Which being done

The Lord Treasurer or Lords Commissioners of the Treasury do appoint the standard Tory weights & the indented tryall pieces of his Majesties Crown Gold moneys & standard silver moneyes kept in the Treasury to be delivered out for the use of the Iury, & the Lord Chancellour compares the triall pieces with those of the Mint.

Then the Lord Chancellour or Lord Keeper doth recommend unto the Iury the making the tryalls of the moneys in the Pix by the said standards of their Majesties Treasury as well in weight as in fineness & in the most just manner that can bee, it being a business of very publick concern.

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The Lord Chancellour or Lord Keeper doth appoint the Iury when they have agreed on their Veredict, where & at what time to attend their Lordshipps with the same, & so departs with the rest of the Lords

When the Iury present their Veredict to the Lord Chancellour of Lord Keeper, the Remembrancer's Deputy attends to read it & after it is read to receive it.