Draft of MINT00167 (Mint 19/1/290)

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Her Majesty or her Council orders that one new standard of Crown gold & one of sterling silver be made & each divided into six indented Trial pieces to be delivered according to her Majestys directions.

The Lord Chancellour sends his Letter to the Wardens & Company of Goldsmiths to return him the names of an able Iury to make the standards. The jury for this purpose has been of 12 or 5 persons.

The return of the names being made to his Lordship, he sends his Warrant by his Serjeant at Arms or Serjeants Deputy to summon the Iury by their names to attend his Lordship at the time appointed.

And when they attend, the Lord Chancellour calls to his Serjeant at Arms for his Warrant for summoning them & appoints the same to be delivered to the Remembrancers Deputy who attends with a copy of an Oath to be given the Iury & the Oath being administred the Lord Chancellour gives the Iury in charge to make the said standards with all the exactness imaginable & to indent & divide each into six equal parts according to their best endeavours & to inscribe & print them & appoints the time when & where to attend with their Veredict under their hands, & with the said indented trial pieces.

Which being done The Lord Chancellour delivers the said Trial pieces by himself or his Agent according to her Majestys directions upon Receipts for the same, & sends the Veredict & receipts to the Lord Treasurer or Commissioners of the Treasury to be entered in the Treasury & kept by the Deputy Remembrancer.

By the Indenture of the Mint One Trial piece of each metal is to be delivered into the Treasury to be kept by the Deputy Chamberlains of the Exchequerfor trial of the Pix, one to the Warden of the mint for trying the new moneys & bullion, one to the Master & Worker for making the moneys, one to the Wardens of the company of goldsmiths for making & trying the plate, one into the Treasury of Scotland to try the moneys & one to the General & other Officers of the Mint in Scotland to make the money. But it may be ‡ < insertion from the bottom > ‡ considered whether it will not be more conformable to the Act of Vnion that the moneys of both Mints be henceforward tried in the same manner that is by a jury of Goldsmiths before the Queen & Council be a jury of Goldsmiths by the standards of great Britain kept in the exchequer & that both the Trial pieces of each metal be delivered to the General & Officers of the Mint at Edinborough, the one to be kept by the Warden of that Mint for trying the new Bullion & moneys before delivery, the other to be kept of the Master of that Mint for making the moneys as is done in the Mint in the Tower.

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NB. The standard of ☉ may weigh about 20 or 24 ounces of crown gold = 96 pounds & that of silver 66 or 72 ounces of standard silver = 18. 12s, before it be divided into six pieces,

This standard commixed of 22 carrets of fine gold & 2 carrets 11oz 2dwt of fine silver & 12 penny weight } of allay in the pound weight Troy of great Brittain 20 Iun. 1707