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

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[1]The manner of the Tryall of the Pix

An order of his Majesty & Councill to appoint a day for the tryall of the moneys of gold & silver in the Pix at the usuall place neare the starr chamber.

Three Clerks extract out of hteir books the weights & tale of all the moneys taken us from time to time & the tale of the Pix & 45 or 50 copies thereof are written fair to be distributed to the Lords & Iury at the Triall

The Lord Chancellour to be waited on to send his Letter to the Wardens & Company of the Goldsmith's to returne him the names of an able Iury for that tryall.

The returne of the names being made to his Lordship, e sends his Warrant by his Sarjeant at Armes or Sarjeants Deputy to summon the Iury by their names to meet at the same time & place.

The day of this Tryal being come the Pix boxes are put on the Table before nine in the morning the Lords do meet & take their places, the Officers of the Mint Exchequer Officers & Goldsmiths attending

The Lord Chancellour calls to his Sarjeant at Arms for their 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 boxes are opened by the Officers of the Mint & the Gold & Silver moneys therein poured upon the Table

The Lord Chancellour causeth the said Oath to be administred to the Iury.

The Lords Commissioners of the Treasury appoint the standard Troy-weights & the Indented Tryall pieces of his Majesties Crown-gold Moneys & standard silver moneys kept in the Treasury to be delivered for the use of the Iury, & the Lord Chancellour examins the Tryall piece by the like Indented Tryal pieces of the Mint.

The Lord Chancellour gives the Iury in charge to make tryall of the gold & silver moneys in the Pix both by weight & fineness in the most just manner that can be by the said standards of their Majesties Treasury according to the Rules set down in the Indenture of the Mint

The Lord Chancellour appoints the Iury when & where to attend his Lordship with their Veredict & so departs with the rest of the Lords.

The Iury being withdrawn inspect the Indenture of the Mint & in presence of the Officers of the Mint examin the gold & silver moneys in the Pix by weight, tale & fineness, & when agreed on their Veredict, present it to the Lord Chancellour being accompanied with the Officers of the Mint & he Remembrancers Deputy attending to read it & after it is read to receive it.

The manner of the trial of the Pix.

The time & place of the trial being appointed & the Iury summoned & the day come, the Pix boxes are put on the Table before nine in the morning

At about ten a clock