May it please yoryour LopLordship

My Ld

Speaking yesterday wthwith my LdLord Chancellour of Scotland about thatthe Mint at Edinborough, his LopLordship was of opinionsecond prop proposed to us to lay before yoryour LopLordship a memorial aboutconcerning some things wchwhich his LopLordship thought might be proper to be considered by the committee of CoucilCouncil wchwhich is to sit to morrow upon yethe affairs of Scotland. His LordpLordship seems of thinks that the Pix of that Mint may be still tried before her MajtiesMajesties Council in Sco in Scotland as formerly & if so we are humbly of opinion that thre in full conformity to the Act of Vnion there may be made seven Trial pieces of Crown gold & threeseven of standard silver sent into Scotland two of each metal for the Exchequer to coyn the money four the two each Treasuries to try the Pixes two of each for the Mints of of as ittwo Wardens of the two Mints to try the moneys before delivery& to decide controversies between the Master & Importer, two of each for yethe Masters of each Mint to make the moneys by & one of each for the Wardens & Company of Goldsmiths in London to m try their plate & manufactures of gold & silver. But if the Pix of the Mint at Edinburgh be tried It may be also convenient [bBut if the Pix And far of that Mint be tried by the standards kept in yethe exchequer at Westminster, six trial pieces of each metal will be sufficient].

It will be also convenient that a Pile of ststandard weights be made for yethe Trea.Treasury in Scotland by the Deputy Chamberlains of yethe ExcheqrExchequer

The Gravers are making shillings Puncheons for wthwith yethe arms of gtgreat Br.Britain wchwhich may be sent to the Mint at Edinborough: And while they are coyning shillings, there willmay be puncheons made for other money. We beleivebelieve it may be sufficient to send them Puncheons &wthwith two or three pairpairs of Dyes of every sort for patterns. For distinguishing the money coyned at Edinburgh from that coyned in London there may be the letter E or set upon under her MajtiesMajesties Effigies.

If it be thought fit there may be somedues of the old form sent them for coyning sixpences & shillings wthwith untill Puncheons of yethe new form can be made, wchwhich I we hope will be in a fortnight or three weeks.

In the late recoynage of the hammered money in England in every hundred pounds there were ten pounds coyned in sixpences & 40 pounds in shillings, & the OfficersMaster of the Mint at Edinborough may be obliged to keep the same proportions during the recoinage in that Mint.

The Pile of Standard weights may be to be madewchwhich should be delivered at the Tower by yethe W.Warden to yethe General of yethe Mint in Scotland to be carried into that MintScotland by Bill indented under their hands of the Warden & General, may in the absence of the General be delivered to yoryour LordpsLordships order to be conveyed or sent to that Mint, the same being first markedprinted with a Rose & Thistle growing upon one common stalk & pr crowned wthwith one common crown, And the Date being stamped upon it.