'A Bill of the prizes [i.e. prices] of such Tools & other things as may be usefull in her Maj^ts Mint in Scotland', with a covering letter to the Treasury

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A Bill of the prizes of such Tools & other things as may be usefull in her Maj^ts in Scotland.

From the Office of Receipt

For the Assay Office

For the Melter

For the Moneyers

For the Graver Engineer & Smith

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Cast Rollers are not to be bought. The man who makes them keep the secret to himself & only lends the Rollers to the moneyers at 10^s a day. Hammered rollers are apt to sink & fail & cost 6^li a pair \{illeg}|b|ut are not so serviceable/. What is meant by a siseing Mill we are not certain. If it be the Mill for drawing the barrs of gold & silver to a just thickness, such a Mill with three hammered rollers in the late recoynage cost about \us/ 177 pound. The Moneyers have some of those Mills remaining in their hands w^ch they can afford cheaper. We use no books of Vellum but record o^r coynage in Leger books of thick derny paper. German steel is scarce to be met with in shops fit for our use. Our Smith tends into Germany for it. It costs from 8^d to 12^d or 14^d according to the goodness & scarcity. And |[|several \other/ things mentioned in this Bill vary in their prizes according to the sizes & goodness.|]| \Its chief use is for making the Dyes & puncheons & we beleive {sic} it beleive it {sic}/ \{illeg}/ We belive {sic} it may be best for the money\safest for the money/ to have the impresson on the Dyes for both mints taken\made/ from the same puncheons. For the variety of impressions makes it more difficult to know good money & more difficult to easy to adulterate it.\②/ Besides the things the mentioned in this Bill there should be two indented Trial pieces of crown gold so & two of standard silver sent them, the one for making the money of due allay, the other for examining it before delivery. They will cost the price\value/ of the gold & silver conteined in them \w^ch may be about 40 or 40^li/ |①| What they\is/ meant |in y^e Inventory| by large scratches half wier we do not understand \nor to what use they would put the large scratch brushes. {sic}/. Our Melter brushes |meant| his barrs of gold & silver w^th brushe{illeg}|s| made of a substance w^ch grows upon health grounds These brushes & is \very/ cheap. The Gravers & Moneyers clean their Dyes w^th {illeg} small scratch brushes worth about 2^s a brush & a dozen of those seem sufficient for them both Offices. And the Gravers {&} Moneyers clean their Dues with small scratch brushes \such as are used by the Graver/. {illeg} Besides the things mentioned &c

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May it pl. yo^r L^p

We have co

In obedience to yo^r Lord^ps order of the {2}|3|^d Instant we have considered the Inventory therewith sent us of Tools & other necessaries proposed to be provided in London for the use of her Maj^ts Mint in Scotland & have here subjoyned the prizes \in London/ of such of them as seem to us proper & necessary to be furnished {illeg}|f|or the said Mint, supposing they are not already in that Mint & cannot be had cheaper from other places then from London.

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