Memoranda on accounting, checking and packing

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That the Master receive the copper by weight upon his Notes the same being first assayed & be discharged by delivering back the same weight of money & takingg back his Notes as in the coynage of gold & silver.

That the Master be allowed a Clerk to attend the deliveries & Meltings & enter all receiprs & deliveries between himself the Merchant the Melter the Moneyer the Graver &c.

That                      assay the blanks & moneys in weight (& also in goodness if it be thought necessary ) before all persons concerned.

That the Master be allowed for coynage            per lwt if the blanks be cast & not assayed in fineness, or 14d more for hazzards if cast & assayed, or        if they be cut out of milled barrs & not assayed in fineness or 12 more for hazzards if assayed.

That where payments are made in copper money there be an allowance of            pr cent. Or an Exchanger be appointed with an allowance of        pr cent for changing the copper money into silver.

That a pound weight be cut into so much money as will pay for the copper at the market price & make a seigniorage for defraying all other charges. And if at any time the money prove a little too light or too heavy the Master be allowed the next time to coyn it a little to heavy or too light (within the remedy of 12d pr lwt) for keeping the recconing eaven.