The £60 p.a. allowed for a master's assay master (as distinct from the royal assay master) has for a long time been paid to the deputy master, who has authority to examine the work of the royal assay master

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/1/103, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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<103r>

May it pl. yo^r Lord^p

To enable the Master & Worker to carry on the coynage w^thout depending upon the King or Queen's Assaymaster, he is allowed 60 pounds per annum towards enabling him to keep\the charge of keeping/ an Assaymaster of his own\for himself/ whenever he shall need one. But now for a lo{illeg}|n|g time the Gold & Silver has been received into the Mint by the {Kin} assays of y^e King or Queens Assaymaster & the {that I}\M^r & W^r/ allows the 60^li p^r an and to a Deputy who has power to examin the assays of the King or Queens \said/ Assaymaster by \his own or/ those of any other Assaymaster as often as shall be thought fit. If your Lord^p still thinks fit still to trust the King or Queens \therefore pleases that the Queens Assaymaster be still trusted in/ Assaym^r |upon \in/ the receipt of Bullion into y^e Mint| I am also willing to trust him, he being upon oath \a sworn officer/ & an indifferent person & I having met with no complaints against him |& his Assays being recconed exacter then those at Goldsmiths Halls & the Gold & silver||being safe in his hands.| But if your Lordship chuses rather that y^e ☉ & ☾ should be received into the Mint by the Assays of such a goldsmith another Assaymaster to be imployed under me, I am ready to provide one so soon as another\a new/ Assay Office can be with other conveniences can be provided\had & made fit/ in the Mint.

All w^ch is most humbly submitted