Clerical copy of tenders to supply copper received in response to the advertisement of 30 April 1717 [MINT00630 (Mint 19/2/406)] and forwarded to the Mint with MINT00636 (Mint 19/2/366):

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<text in Unknown Hand (1) begins>To the Right Honorable The Lords of his Majestys Treasury

Pursuant to the Advertizement in the Gazet of the thirtieth of April last, Wee do hereby propose to Supply his Majestys Mint with Fifty Tons certain not exseeding Four Tons monthly of Plates of fine Brittish Copper hammered at Nineteen Pence per Pound being the present price paid by the Copper Smiths & Braisiers and to take back the Shruff or Sissileage at Fourteen Pence Half Penny per Pound to be paid for the same at delivory.

Or to Supply Fifty Tons certain not exceeding Four Tons per Month of Fine Brittish Copper in Fillets hammered and rowled to such Syses as the Master of the Mint shall order at Twenty Pence per Pound and to take back the Sissiledge at Fourteen Pence Half Penny per Pound to be paid for the same at delivory

Or to Supply Fifty Tons ceratin not exseeding Four Sons per Month of fine Brittish Copper in Blancks fit to coyne into Half Pence & Farthings of such Syses as the Mastet of the Mint shall order with aremidy of a Half Penny per Pound to be paid for the same at delivory London the 21.st May 1717                Your Lordships                               Most Obedient Servants                                    John Elsington                                    H Robinson