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[See NC, 5: 58: Treasurer's order, dated 25 July 1710, to draft this indenture, following the appointment of a new master, John Montgomerie, on 22 June.]
This Indenture made
the
year of the reign of our Sovereign Lady Anne by the
Grace of God of Great Brittain France and Ireland
Queen Defender of the Faith c
1710 Between our said Sovereign Lady the Queens
most Excellent Majesty of the one part +
of G Witnesseth that
whereas our said Sovereign Lady the Queen by her Letters
Patents under the Great Seale appointed by the Treaty
of Vnion to be kept in Scotland bearing date the twenty
second day of Iune 1710 for the considerations therein
mentioned Did give and grant unto the said
Montgomties.ties.
Mint at Edingburgh in the room and place of George
Allardes Esquire deceased To hold the said Office for
and during her ties.
allowances proffitts perquisites powers priviledges and
advantages whatsoever thereunto belonging, and in as
ample manner as the said George Allardes or any other
heretofore held and enjoyed the same.
And whereas by the Act of Vnion it is provided
that the mint in Scotland shall be under the same Rules
as the Mint in England And for that end it is necessary
that an Indenture be made and executed on his part
for and concerning the making of the several sorts of
money of Gold and Silver and for payment of the several
Officers of the Mint and for other matters and things
relating thereto and to the execution of the said Office
as are hereinafter mentioned with alterations and
additions if any shall be thought fitt and directed by her
Majesty for the better management and carrying on
of that service.
Now this Indenture witnesseth
that for and in consideration of the ts.ts.
hereinafter contained on the part of the d.
Our said Sovereign Lady the Queen of her especial grace
certain knowledge and meer motion Hath given granted
ratified and confirmed, and doth by these presents give
grant ratifie and confirm unto the d.
the said Office of Master and Worker of all her ties.
moneys both of Gold and Silver within her ties.
in the city of Edinburgh and elsewhere in that part of her ties.
together with the Fee or yearly
sterling to be paid by quarterly payments at four Terms
in the year Candlemas Whitsonday Lammas + Martinmas
yearly by even and equal portions out of such moneys as
(in and by an Act of Parliament made in England in the
eighteenth year of the Reign of his late tie.
Charles the second and continued by another Act made in
the twenty fifth year of his d.ties.
were revived and continued by an Act made in the first
year of his late tie.
and again by another Act made in the fourth year of his
late tie.
after by an Act made in the twelfth year of the reign of the
said late King William, and further continued by an Act
made in the seventh year of her present tie.
intituled an Act for continuing the former Acts for t
of the Coinage c
in Scotland) are allowed to be issued yearly out of her said ties.
of the Mint or Mints, and towards the providing maintaining
and repairing of the Houses Offices and Buildings and
other necessaries for assaying melting down and coining
during so long time as the d.t.
in force.
And after the said Acts of t.
be void, then the said Fee or yearly
of such other moneys + in such other manner as
Act or Acts of Parliament hereafter to be made to be d.
or allowed to be issued out for the Fees or salaries of the
officers of the Mint or Mints, and in default of any such
allowance or t.t
and during such time or times as there shall hereafter
happen to be no such allowance or t.
authority of Parliament, the said Fee or yearly
of
Montgomties.
gold or silver moneys or other her ties.
Mint or Mints or such other part of her ties.
as her tie.
And our Sovereign Lady the Queen for eracons
afored.hath also given granted and confirmed, and
by these presents doth give grant and confirm unto the
said
and other proffitts priviledges Franchises + immunities
belonging to the afored.To have hold and enjoy
the said Office of Master and Worker unto the d.
Montgom
his sufficient Deputy or Deputies for whom he will
answer, And also to hold and enjoy the said Fee or yearly
with the said Houses Edifices buildings gardens profitts
advantages priviledges, Franchises Liberties and
immunities for and during her d.ties.
full and amply manner to all intents and purposes, as
the said George Allardes eced
persons did or at any time heretofore might or ought to
hold and enjoy the same.
And whereas by the aforesaid Acts of Parliament
it is amongst other things provided that no moneys
leviable or payable by the same shall be applied or converted
toother use or uses whatsoever other than
defraying the charge or expence of the Mint or Mints
and of the assaying melting down wast + Coinage of
Gold and Silver and the t.
of Gold and Silver into the d.
coined into the currant Coins of this Kingdome Nor
should any of the d.e
but by order or warrant of the Lord Treasurer + Vnder-
Treasurer or rs.
being, to the Master + Worker or Masters + Workers
of her ties.
mentioning that they are for the use + service afored.
to be kept in her ties.d.
or Mints under the Keys of the Master + Worker
Warden and Comptroller for the time being + issued
out thence from time to time according to the manner
and course of the Mint or Mints respectively.
And in regard the payments + ts.
said Mint formerly paid out of the Duties arising by
the twenty fourth Act in the 2d. session of t.
the first of his d.tie.
made in Scotland dated the fourteenth day of Iune 1686
are by the afored.
be paid out of the moneys arising by the same Acts of tWherefore our said Sovereign Lady the
Queen doth by these presents ordain + appoint that the d.ties.
Exchequer from time to time all such moneys as are
appointed to be paid unto him by the said Acts of t.
Mint or Mints, and of the assaying, melting down, wast
and coinage of Gold and Silver, and the t.
of bringing in of Gold and Silver into the said Mint
there to bee coined into the Current Coines of the
Kingdome of Great Brittain
And that the said Master and Worker shall upon
his Accompt yearly to be made of his Receipts, ts.
charges and disbursements before the Barons of the
Exche
defalcation and discharge of and for all such sume
su
according to the directions hereafter in these pr
And the said
covenant undertake and agree to and with our Sovereign
Lady the Queen to make her ties.
form following That is to say to make four sorts of
money of Crown Gold.
One
running for ten shillings sterling and there shall bee
Eighty nine of those to the pound weight Troy.
One other
shall be forty four of those and one ten shilling
the weight of a ten shilling t.
One other
be twenty two of those and one ten shilling
weight of a ten shilling t.
And one other
be nine of those wanting one ten shilling t.
of one ten shilling
And that every pound weight Troy of all the moneys
of Gold afored.
44£. 10s. and shall be in fineness at the trial of e
22 Carrats of fine gold and two Carratts of allay t.ed.d.
Queen doth will ordain and establish by these
presents to eb the right Standard of her Majesties
moneys of Crowne Gold.
And the said
the sume
every pound weight of gold money to be by him detained
and kept for the paying bearing + sustaining all manner
of wasts provisions necessaries and charges coming arising
and growing in and about the coining of her ties.
gold moneys by the Mill and Press out of the moneys to
be paid and payable to him as is hereafter expressed.
But because the said moneys of Gold may not continually
be made according in all things to the right standard But
per adventure in default of the said Master + Worker
it shall be found sometimes to
much or too little in weight or in fineness or in both Our
sovereign Lady the Queen doth will and command that
when the d.
before the deliverance too strong or too feeble all only
in weight or all only in fineness or on both the sixth part
of a Carrat in the pound weight of Gold and no more, the
which sixth part in that one or the sixth part in that
other or the sixth part in them both shall bee called Remedy for the said Master That then that money
shall be delivered for good, so always that the same default
happen by Casualty otherways not But if default bee
found in the same money in weight or in fineness or in
both over the sixth part of a Carratt which is called
Remedy as aforesaid, then the deliverance shall cease
and that money shall be challenged + adjudged less
than good and to be new molten and recoined at the
cost of the d.
deliverable.
And also the said Master hath undertaken and by
these presents doth agree and undertake to and with
our sovereign Lady the Queen to make eight manner of
moneys of silver that is to say.
One
for five shillings sterling and there shall be twelve
of those + two shillings in the pound weight Troy.
One other
Crown running for two shillings and six pence Sterling
and there shall be 24 of those and two shillings in the
pound weight Troy.
One other
running for 12 d. sterling and there shall be 62 of
those in the pound weight Troy.
One other
shilling running for 6 d. sterling and there shall bee
124 of those in the pound weight Troy.
One other
running for 4 d sterling and there shall be 186 of
those in the pound weight Troy.
One other
sixpence running for three pence sterling and there
shall be 248 of those in the pound t.
One other
Groat running for 2 d sterling, and there shall bee
372 of those in the pound t.. and,
One other
running for one penny sterling and there shall be 744
of those in the pound t.
And every pound t
silver afored.d.
and be in value 3£: 2s. sterling and shall be in fineness
at the trial of the same 11oz: 2dw ts. of fine silver and 18dw ts..
of allay, which 11oz: 2d of fine silver and 18dw ts. of allay in
the pound t.d.
moneys of silver of Great Brittain.
And be the said Master bound to make all the
moneys of Crowne Gold and Standard silver afored.
agreable in fineness to the respective indented triall ccdtie.
year of her reign, Which d.
now remain in the seven several places hereinafter
mentioned That is to say One Indented Gold
her ties.
Brittain to try the moneys of Gold + silver from time to time
coined by the d.ties.
time being in fineness thereby, the like with the Warden
of the Mint within the Tower of London for the time being
to try the moneys of gold and silver from time to time
coined in her ties.
As also to try the gold and silver Bullion brought there
if any difference
Worker of that Mint + the Bringers in of the same, The
like with the Master + Worker of the said Mint to make
the d.
Wardens of the Company of Goldsmiths within the City
of London in Goldsmiths Hall for the trial of their plate
+ other works as
The like in her ties.
like with the Warden of the Mint at Edinburgh for e
being to try the moneys of gold + silver from time to time
coined in her ties.d.
also to try the gold and silver bullion brought thither if
any difference shall happen to arise between the d.
and Worker of that Mint and the bringer in of e
and the like with the d.d.
moneys in fineness thereby.
And the d.
sum
of every pound t.
bearing and sustaining of all manner of wasts provisions
necessaries + charges coming arising + growing in + about
the coining of her ties.
+ sixpences of silver moneys by the Mill + Press out of the
moneys to be paid and payable unto him as is hereinafter
expressed
d. Master shall out of the
him as aforesd. + reced by him for every pound wt. Troy of the eme
of vy pound wt Troy of the sd. silver
moeet. of
the d. Master + Worker.
And our Sovereign Lady the Queen doth by ser
order + appoint that the said Master and Worker out of
the moneys to be paid to him as afored.
to be paid yearly unto the severall respective Officers of
the d.
according to the allowance + t.
schedule hereunto annexed.
But because the d.
be made in all things according to the right Standard, in
as much as sometimes in default of the d.
it may be made too strong or too feeble by too much or too
little in weight or in fineness or in both Our Sovereign
Lady the Queen doth will that when the d.
upon the assay before the delivery be found too strong or too
feeble all only in weight or all only in fineness or in both
by two pennyts.t.d
Computation of 20 pennyts.t.
other, or two pennyt.Remedy for the Master, that then such monies to be
delivered for good, so always the same default do happen
by Casualty, otherwise not; But if default be found in the d.d.
two pennyt.d.
deliverance of the d.
less than good, + at the Costs of the Master to be newly
molten + recoined till it be put to point as moneys
deliverable, as aforesaid.
And our d.
agreeth and granteth by this Indenture that the d.
Master + Worker for the time being do + shall receive
asties.
Bullion of any other person or persons tsoevr.
to her Mint with any Bullion of Gold + Silver afored.
to be coined into the moneys before mentioned by weight
Delivering to the parties bringing in the same
Bullion, Bills testifying the weight fineness and
Value
of its delivery into the said Mint, and within as
convenient time as may be, deliver the same again
to our sovereign Lady the Queen for her Bullion, +
the other parties or their Attorneys delivering
the same Bills by the same weight according to
the value of the said Bullion at such time + in such
manner + form as in this present Indenture is
limited and appointed.
And our Sovereign Lady the Queen doth will
and command by this Indenture that the d
and the Counterwarden or Comptroller of her ties.
of the papers for the time being shall enter and record
in several Leidger Books all such Bullion of Gold +
silver as from time to time shall be brought into the d.e
fineness + value of the said Bullion, the parties
name that brought it, and what day, And after the d
thereof made reported + entered into the d.
Books, the same Bullion shall be forthwith put into
a Chest or Room, and the Chest or Room shall bee
locked with three keys, Whereof one Key shall
remain with the d.
of the Keys shall remain with the said Warden or
Wardens or one of them for the time being And
one other of the said Keys shall remain with the d.
Counterwarden for the time being and there shall
continue untill such time as the same de deliver'd
to the making of moneys
And the said Warden and Counter Warden +
likewise her ties.ing
severall Books of melting, Declaring in the same
the Quantity and fineness of all manner of gold
and silver + allay put into the melting thOf
Books shall remain in their several Custodies to charge
the Master with all And the said Books shall monthly be
subscribed + figured by the d
and the Master and Counterwarden. And the said
Assaymaster of our Sovereign Lady the Queen shall
keep one Book of all such Bullion of Gold + silver as
shall be brought into the said Mint whereby the
quantity and fineness may appear with the report also
of the assay of every several pot only
pott assay Which pott assay shall be made of some
Ingott of the said Bullion to be taken by ed
Counterwarden + Assaymaster or any two of them
after the pot is cast out.
And if any person or persons happen to bring into the
Mint any manner of gold or silver nigh to the Standard
afored.
accordingly, so as the charges to make it agreable in
fineness to the several standards afored.
sustained out of the revenue arising to her tie.
vertue of the afored.t
And our said Sovereign Lady the Queen doth by these
presents give full power and authority unto the d.
+ Worker from time to time to put such privy Mark or
Marks upon the Edges or Flatt sides of the d.
silver moneys to be coined as afored.d.
shall judge most safe + convenient for the d.
from time to time to alter + change such privy mar
or marks according as he shall judge the same most
convenient and necessary so that the d.r.
may from time to time know and discover which of gold
+ silver amongst other be made by him + which not.
And the d.
or Comptroller or their Deputy or Deputies shall oversee
and survey the said assaying melting sizing + making
of the said moneys of gold and silver at all times +
in all places, and shall indeavour and procure that
the d.According
the charge committed to them
procure that
amended and put to point from time to time when they
shall need so that no default be found in them to the hurt
of her tie.
And whereas two Piles of Standard english weights
lately made and printed with a Rose Crown'd + Thistle
Crown'd whereof twelve Ounces English do equal twelve
Ounces four pennyts.
the one of them by Bill indented in the hands of the
General of the d.
her ties.d
shall produce the d
coming to the d.r
at all times and on all occasions as they shall require it +
have use for the same.
And the said Counter Warden or Comptroller as Surveyr.
of the meltings shall take care of his Duty in surveying of
the meltings afored.
weight of such gold and silver as shall be molten from time
to time with the allays put into the same And when the d.
moneys be coined and compleat, the said Master and Worker
and Warden or Wardens and Comptroller or Comptrollers
shall put them into a Chest or room locked with three keys
Whereof one shall remain with the said Master, one th.
the said Warden and the third with the d.
Count
of the said money and t.
of the said bullion accordingly Which proof shall be had +
made before deliverance of the said moneys And shall
be made in pr
or Wardens and Comptroller or Counter warden by her ties.
to be taken as
quantity + after such sort as be agreed upon by the said
Warden Counter Warden and Assaymaster.
And after the said moneys of Gold and silver bee
assayed and proved for good as is afored.
deliverance be of the whole sum
moneys shall be taken and put into a Box by the said
Warden or Wardens or by their Deputy or Deputies in
the pr
Counterwarden or his Deputy: Whereof the Assay
shall be made before our Sovereign Lady the Queen from
time to time or such of her Councell as have beene
accustomed or shall be appointed by her tie.r.
where it shall please her tie.
That is to say for every Iourney weight of Gold not
exceeding fifteen pound t.
for the Pix and the other for the assay And out of every
Iourney of silver moneys containing sixty pound t
and the other for the assay And they shall be insealed th
the seale of the d.
the d.
shall abide with the General, one with the Master, one
with the Warden or Wardens and the fourth with the
Comptroller or Counter-Warden, Which Pix shall remain
in a Chest or room as is afored
warning thereof given, it shall be opened from time to
time before our sovereign Lady the Queen or such of her
Councell as shall be by her tie.r.
or elsewhere it shall please her tie.d.
to appoint; and in presence of the d.
Warden or Warden and Counterwarden or Comptrollr.
there shall be assays made as
the weight of the d.
Box after the most just manner as can be thought of
to be made, by fire, by water, by touch, or by weight, or by
all or by any of them To the end that if the said moneys of
Gold + silver be found and proved good and covenable after
the ts.d.d.Tot.d.tie.
and all her people unto that day And then the d.
his will to have Letters Patents of our Sovereign Lady
the Queen under the proper seale of Scotland to be made for
his acquittance specifying the said assays to be made and
found as afored.
making which Letters Patents these presents shall be a
sufficient warrant and discharge to the Keeper or Keepers
of the said Seale for the time being without any further or
special warrant to be issued out for the same.
And if it shall be found by the assayes, that the pound
weight
in fineness as aforesaid, but shall be worse + yet within the
remedies afored.
by the said Warden or Wardens + Counter Warden or
Comptroller or such as they shall thereunto appoint
and a true accompt thereof shall be made to her tie.
+ the same fully and wholly to be answered to her tie.
without any proffitt or Commodity to grow unto any other
person or persons for the same Saving always that in
case by the assay it shall be found that the same moneys
of gold and silver do pass at any time the d.
or any of them so as the same be better in fineness or
in weight or in both, than in is appointed by the standards
and yet within the remedy, then so much thereof to be
entered of Record and hold place to the d.e
charge which he shall have when any lack shall be found
by the d.d
And if it shall happen in the said moneys of gold and
silver or either of them upon either of the just assays as
shall be made of the abovesaid Boxes in manner afored.
be it in weight or in fineness any default be found
without the said Remedies ordained for the said
Master as is abovesaid or any of them The said
Master shall make fine and Ransome to her said
Majesty at her will.
Also the said General Master + Worker Warden +
Counter Warden or any of them as often as need shall
require shall and may take up as many Gravers to grave
Irons at her ties.
+ Labourers and other necessaries for and towards
the making of the d.d.
doing of all manner of business within the Mint as to
the d.
seem needfull to have In which taking of such Gravers
Smiths Workmen + Labourers + other necessaries Our
sovereign Lady the Queen doth will and command by
this Indenture all Mayors Sherriffs, Bayliffs, and all
other Officers that they to the d.
or Wardens + Comptroller or Counter Warden afored.
+ to his or their Deputy and Deputies therein be t.
aiding helping and fortifying as to right doth belong. And our Soveriegn Lady the Queen doth will + grant by
these presents that it shall be lawfull to + for ed.
Master Warden or Wardens, Counter Warden or Comptrolr.
of her ties.d.d.
Ingravers, Smiths, Workmen + Labourers as by their
discretions be not of good bearing in their Offices and
Labours to punish put out avoid and
General or Master Warden or Wardens or Comptroller
shall seem meet according to right and for her ties.
And be the said Master bound and holden to receive
all manner of gold and silver brought to the Mint after
the very value, that is to say every parcell in its degree
one to the more, another to the less, after the quantity it
shall appear by the assay to be better or worse than e
And if the d.
said gold and silver may not accord between them of the
true value, her ties.r.
presence of the d.
ought + shall try the truth in that part + the d.r.
receive e
And be the said Master or Worker Warden or
Wardens and Comptroller held and bound to give their
attendance at the said Mint, every Wednesday in the
week, and such other days as shall be by m
and agreed on for the receipt of all such Bullion as
shall be brought into the d.
out of the coined moneys.
And her d.
presents that the Officers of the Mint shall at all times
hold have and peacebly enjoy all places houses grounds
asd.
heretofore have been called reputed or taken for e
Mint without medling let or disturbance t
And he the d.tie.
Indenture unto the aforesaid Officers and to all other
Officers and Ministers of the Mint the Charters +
Franchises to them before this time granted after the
effort and purport of the same Charters.
And also our Sovereign Lady the Queen doth will t
the said Moniers Workmen and all other Ministers of
the Mint shall be ready to do their work at all times
without denial when they shall be warned by the said
Warden or Wardens Master or Comptroller upon pain
of losing their Franchises and bodies to Prison Also
that all the gold and silver that the Mastr.
to the Moniers to be coined as afored.
plates and delivered by weight And the d.
make and coin the same into Moneys and then deliver
the same again to the master in clean
by the same weight + if any thing lack of the same weight
at any time of deliverance, they to pay and content unto
the d.
Ballance and sod done the Master to pay m
that belong to them.
And for the Covenants ts.r
afored.
the part of the said Master and that he shall beare
himself towards her tie.Office
Gree to her said Majesty, the Master hath made bodily
Oath before the Barons of her ties.
himself his heirs + Executrs.
prth
+ with the Merchants of that belongeth to them of
the gold and silver which he shall receive by + in manner
as afored.d.
Master hath found Burrows + Sureties afore our
Sovereign Lady the Queen in her Exchequer in the sum
of
shall make gree to the Queens Highness + to ets.
in manner and form as is d
And the said Master doth covenant promise and
grant to and with her said tie.
to bring into the said Mint convenient and sufficient
supplies of Gold and Silver and make full payments
and deliverance of all manner of moneys with all
convenient speed, according to the dt.
for the proffit of her Majesty her heirs and Successrs.
and the ease of the people
convenant promise and grant to + with our d.
Lady the Queen to bear pay and sustain all man
of wasts provisions necessaries and charges coming
arising and growing in and about the coining of her ties
Mill and Press according to the allowance in that
behalfe made by her tie.rre
the said Master shall be holden + bound to bring or cause
to be brought all the Gold and silver that he shall receive
by colour of his Office into the Mint to be molten and
made into moneys for help + increase of the moneys for
her ties.
aliening or putting it to any other use Excepting all
such healing
silver as shall be made for her Majesties use or by
her ties.
And the said Master and Worker shall accompt
yearly before the Barons of the Exche
person or persons as her tie.
the d.
Barons of the Exchequer or by any other of the
said person or persons specially appointed by her tie.
determine
to her tie.
suite to the Keeper of the proper seale for e
being shall have Letters Patents of her d.tie.
under the said seale for his Acquittance, without
fee therefore paying For the making of which d.
Letters Patents these presents or e
thereof shall be a sufficient Warrant and discharge
to the Keeper of the d.th
any further or more speciall warrant to be sued
out for the same.
And the said Master and Worker is hereby
appointed and authorized out of the moneys ced
or to be received by him upon or by vertue of the d.
Act for encouraging of Coinage afored.
and keep in his own hands yearly the sum
due to himself as also for the paying + discharging
of the several and respective Fees and salaries of
the several and respective Officers of the Mint +
the Clerks in the said schedule mentioned to bee
payable by the said Master and Worker according
to the distribution and apportionment mentioned
in the said schedule.
And our Sovereign Lady the Queen doth hereby
order and appoint that the General Mastr.
Warden and Comptroller of her ties.
that hereafter shall be + their respective Deputies
Shall
admitted into the knowledge of the invention of rounding
of her ties.
with Letters or Grainings or either of them take an
Oath before the Barons of the Exche
who are hereby respectively authorized to give the same
not to reveal or discover to any person or persons t
the said new invention of rounding the moneys + marking
the edges of them with Letters or Grainings or either of
them directly or indirectly unless her tie.
or successours shall otherways command and direct
the same. And her tie.
appoint, that all such Workmen that shall be trusted or
employed in the making or using the said Instruments for
rounding the moneys and marking the monies upon the
Edges as aforesaid shall likewise take an Oath before
the General of the Mint for the time being who is hereby
authorized to administer the same accordingly not to
reveal or discover to any person or persons whatsoever the
said new invention of rounding the moneys and marking
the Edges of them with letters or Grainings as afored.
or either of them directly or indirectly in part or in whole.
[ It is hereby likewise strictly commanded and enjoyned
by her said tie.
the Moniers of the sd. Mint their Apprentices or
servants do or shall at any time after the date hereof
presume to vend pay or distribute any
of her ties.
untill the same shall be delivered by them according to
the course of the Mint into her ties.
there and duly assayed and pixed upon pain of forfeiting
their Franchises + Bodies to Prison. And further thatthties.
Mint without the knowledge or approbation of e
Mastr.r.e
being Except such Officers Workmen
of the said Mint and such other persons as have right
thereto.
And her said tie.
will and ordain That the Counterwarden or Comptrollr.
of the Mint for the time being shall deliver upon Oath
taken before one of the Barons of the Exche
which shall be called the Counter Wardens or rs.
Roll containing an Accompt of all the gold + silver
Bullion and allay melted And of all the Gold and
silver moneys coined monthly in the said Mint.
And the said Master or his Deputy shall pay unto
such Officers or Workmen that shall be employed in
making of several gold and silver
they are sized and for the marking the edges of them
with Letters or Grainings the sum
for every pound weight Troy of gold moneys, and e
sum
said silver moneys as also for the making labour
and expences therein.
And further more
of Moniers and Workers of the money may bee
encouraged to do their Duties well in the making sizing
blanching and coining of the gold and silver moneys as
also for the making
of silver moneys hereafter to be coined,
and a half or eighteen Ounces in the Quantities or
species following vizt. in pence half an Ounce, in two
pences three Ounces, in threepences six Ounces +
in Groats eight Ounces and a half,
the Queen for the consideracons afored.
pleased + hereby contented and by these presents doth
give power and authority to the Master + Worker of e
Mint for the time being that so long as the Warden of
the Mint and he the d.
or Comptroller or any two of them whereof the said
Warden to be one, shall perceive the d.
well sized blanched and coined by the performance of
the said service in small moneys, the said Master shall
pay to the aforesaid Provost and Company of Moniers
one penny by Tale of every pound weight of all thesilver Silver moneys to be made and coined by force of
this Indenture over and above the ordinary
have allowance upon his Accompt by vertue of e
at all times hereafter without any other or more
special warrant. Provided also taht the Moniers
having the gold and silver delivered unto them in clean
Ingotts fit to be wrought shall make and deliver seven
twelfth parts of the same in money so that there be but
five parts in twelve scissell.
And our sovereign Lady the Queen doth hereby will
and command that the Queens Clerk, as Clerk of e
for the time being do keep a true accompt of all the blank
Dyes for the coining of the gold and silver moneys, which
shall from time to time be delivered to the Chief Ingraver
or Ingravers of her ties.
also fo all the blank Dyes which shall be sunk or stamped
by the said Graver or Gravers, and of all the Dyes
which after sinking shall be made fit for use + hardned.
And the said Graver and Gravers is and are hereby
likewise injoined monthly to return unto the said Queens
Clerk as Clerk of the Irons all Dyes as shall from time
to time be faulty and worn by using in the said Mint or
otherways to be defaced in the presence of the Master
Warden and Comptroller of the said Mint and not
otherwise And the said Queens Clerk as Clerk of e
is hereby further enjoyned to give an Accompt to the d.
Master and Warden and Counter Warden as he shall
thereunto be required by them of what blank Dyes have
been delivered unto the said Graver or Gravers or sunk
by them or hardened by the Smith And what faulty
and worn out Dyes have been returned by them to be
defaced, as also what others are remaining in r
that a just accompt may be kept of the same.
And that the said Gravers shall not work or make
or grave any Punchions Matrices Dyes or stamps for
the making or coining of any money of Gold and silver
Butties.
Mint as shall be thereunto assigned by the afored.
Master Warden and Counter Warden.
And for the more exact sizing of Gold and silver
Coins to be made by the Mill and Press + reducing of
them to a greater exactness and equality in weight
is hereby ordered commanded and appointed by her tie.
gold and silver herein mentioned be made lighter n
their just weight according to their proportions ll
That is to say that two grains be taken from the
Counterpoise of the Crown, one grain from the
half Crown, half a grain from the shilling and a
quarter of a grain to be taken from the Counterpoise
of the sixpence of silver moneys And that two grains
be taken from the Counterpoise of the five pound
one grain from the Forty shillings
from the twenty shilling
from the Counterpoise of the ten shilling
And her tie.
said species be made lighter n
[ And our sovereign Lady the Queen doth hereby
command and enjoyee
of the Mint with their respective Apprentices duly
to attend her ties.
coining as need shall require both morning + afternoon
and too work in such Tasks and so many hours every
day, Sunday only excepted as shall be thought fit and
appointed them by the d.e
of their respective Tasks and the length of the days
And in case the d.
Apprentices shall wilfully neglect or refuse to attend
and do their Duties accordingly Then the Warden Mastr
and Counter Warden or Comptroller of the Mint
for the time being are hereby required + authorized
to proceed against every the d.
to expell remove or otherwise punish them and every Of them as in reason and justice they shall think fit
for her Majesties service according to the ancient powers
and Authorities of right belonging to them.
And her said Majesty doth hereby further declare
her pleasure to be that these presents + the agreements
therein contained shall be of force and have continuance
only during her Majesties pleasure any thing in these
Presents contained to the contrary notwithstanding
in wittness whereof to one part of these
present Indentures remaining with our d.
Lady the Queen, the said
set his hand and seale And to the other part of these
present Indentures remaining with the said
Montgom
caused her privy seale appointed to be kept in
Scotland to be affixed Given the day and yeare
abovewritten
A Schedule.