Draft of MINT00868 (Mint 19/1/450-51)

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1. That the Warden of the Mint find out a person well qualified to attend him as a Clerk & Sollicitor for drawing up Informations & Warrants & entring them in books, & seeing the Warrants executed when there is occasion, & for attending Prosecutions at the Old Bayly & Assizes

2. That this Clerk & Sollicitor be allowed a Salary of    li per annum by a Warrant under his Majestys signe Manual directed to the Master & Worker of his Mint to pay the same quarterly as it shall become due.

3. That the Master & Worker be impowered by the same Warrant to imprest further to the said Clerk & Sollicitor for bearing the Charges of the Prosecutions any summ or summs demanded by him from time to time by the Wardens Order in writing & not exceeding in the whole the summ of in any one year

4 That the said Sollicitor upon being sent to apprehend or prosecute criminalls in the country be allowed 10s per diem for his hose & himself & six pence per mile travelling charges. And that such others as shall be necessary to accompany him be allowed such travelling charges as the Warden shall approve of not exceeding 7s 6d per diem for a man & a horse.

6 That the said Sollicitor do at the end of the every half year lay before the Master & Worker & Comptroller of the Mint an account of the services performed by him & his Assistants with a certificate from the Warden that they were done by his Order. And that he do also lay before the Warden Master & Comptroller an Account of all travelling charges. Councellours fees & other expences for which he can produce Receipts of other good Vouchers to be examined & allowed by the said Warden Master & Comptroller under their hands as a Voucher to his Accounts.

5. That in lieu coach hire, pocket expences, Court-fees, & such other expences as cannot be ascertained by good Vouchers, he be further allowed 1li for every person indixted & actually tried whether the person be convicted or acquitted,& 10s for every person coomitted to prison in order to be tried.

7. That at the end of every year he lay his Accounts first before the Warden of the Mint & then before the Attorney or Sollicitor of the Treasury to be examined & stated & then laid before the Lord High Treasurer or Lords Commissioners of the Treasury ing order to be allowed & sent to the Master & Worker to be paid off.

8 And that the Master & Worker be authorized by the Warrant above mentioned to pay off all such Accounts so allowed, & the Auditors of the Mint be directed to allow in the Master & Workers Account all payments made by vertue of the said Warrant, not exceeding in the whole the summ of 400li per annum.

5 That in recompence for pocket expences, coach hire, Court fees & such other expences as cannot be ascertained by good vouchers, the Sollicitor be further allowed for every person committed to prison in order to be tried, &       for every person indicted & tried, whether the persons be convicted or acquitted. And that every person who by the Wardens order shall assist the Sollicitor or be otherwise imployed in the executing of Warrants, shall be allowed         a piece for every person apprehended &         a house for every house searched.