To the RtRight HonbleHonourable the LdLord High Treasurer of England.

May it please yoryour LordpLordship

In obedience to yoryour LordpsLordships Reference of 23 November last we have enquired into the Case of Mr Antony Redhead late Master & Worker of the Mint at Norwich & find it truly stated in the annexed paper on wchwhich the said Reference is endorsed. And particularly by the Daybooks of theat Mint & the Cash books of Mr Redhead & his Clerk and another book composed & signed by the Warden of that Mint we find that Mr Redhead upon the breaking up of that Mint was indebted 2497li. 16s. 3d to Mr Blofeld for hammered money at 5s ꝑper ozounce.

In discharge of this Debt Mr Redhead produces three Receipts for 2500li paid to Mr Blofelds Order out of that Mint, the one dated Aug 26 1697 for 500li the other two dated Aug 30 & Sept 1 1697 for 1000li each. To wchwhich Mr Blofeld & his friends answers that whatever summs were paid to him or his Order out of that Mint upon such private Receipts, were intended upon the next accounting to be brought to account & set off upon the Printed Mint Tickets then payable in course & accordingly were all of them faithfully accounted for brought to account as he is ready to make oath. But the Receipts were not always taken up & cancelled as they should have been, the endorsement on the printed Mint Tickets, as they conceived, imploying according to yethe order & course of the Mint that all summs paid untill the day of the endorsement were then accounted for & set off upon yethe printed Tickets & thereby all private Receipts of such summs untill that day discharged & made voyd, wchwhich made him & his Agents less carefull to take them up. And They say also that about three weeks after the date of the said three Receipts vizt on 22th Sept 1697 he Mr Blofeld account wthwith Mr Redhead & endorsed 14922li on two Mint tickets including all summs paid to him untill that time & that is three so short a time as three weeks so great a summ as 2500l could not be forgot & ytthat again in December following he accounted again & endorsed 6443li. 13s. 9d on two other Mint Tickets including all further summs paid untill that day. By which Accountings & Endorsements the said three Receipts (if they be true ones) being, as they conceive, supposed to be looked upon as discharged they were not mentioned any further by Mr Redhead while that Mint stood nor for a long time after but lay neglected till he thought fit to produce thiem, as he did also some other Receipts of the same kind wchwhich the Importers neglected to take up & cancell., & wchwhich have bee since produced also by Mr Redhead but are no allowed to be voyd. &

In examining this matter we find therefore that † † for preventing misrecconings an account was taken every two or three days or oftener of the monies new coyned & paid away & what remained in yethe TrearyTreasury whereby a misrecconing of 2500 might soon edge->ha have been discovered; that † † Mr Redhead did pay several summs of money to Mr Blofeld & some other Importers upon private Receipts without endorsing the summs upon the printed Mint Tickets unitll they camme to a general recconing upon the next Ticket or Tickets payable in course & that the Importers did sometimes upon such a recconing neglect to take up their Receipts: that Mr Blofeld did endorse 154922 on two Tickets 22 Sept 1697 & 6443. 13. 9 more on two others in December following as is alleged & ☉ Mr Blofeld did endorse 14922li on two Tickets 22 Sept 1697 & 6443li 13s 9d mroe on two others in December following as is alleged & that Mr Redhead did not produce the said three Receipts against Mr Blofeld till afterbout Michaelmas 1699 which was two years after ☉ ☉ & we humbly conceive those endorsements by the cuourse of the Mint to be in full of all moneys paid upon those Thickets, so as to voyd yethe Notes paid three Receipts unless Mr Redhead can positively prove the payment of more moneys by 2500li upon the two first of those Tickets then was endorsed upon them, wchwhich proof is wanting & would infer the crime of undue preference. We find also that those after the Endorsements those three Receipts lay neglected till about Michaelmas 1699 wchwhich was two years after, Mr Redhead representing that eh then found thedm amongst his papers. The Officers of that Mint for preventing misrecconings took an account every two or three days & sometimes dayly of all the moneys new coyned & paid away & of what remained in the Mint Treasury, whereby a misrecconing of 2500li would soon have been discovered: Whereas after the endorsement of 22 Sept 1697 those three Receipts lay neglected till about Michaelmas 1699 wchwhich was two years after Mr Redhead representing that he then found them amongst heis papers. About the same time he found also & produced The monies could be overpaid upon the two first of them. Tickets without the crime of undue difference. That he representing representing that he then found them amongst his papers. That aAbout the same time he found also & produced also a Receipt of 1858li left in that Mint by Mr Dashwood another iImporter of publick money, but by an Affidavit of Mr Tho. Allen Clerk to the Warden of that Mint made before my LdLord Chief Baron Ward on yethe 3d of Iuly 1701 & by other circumstances it appears to us that Mr Dashwood did account for that money & neglect to take up & cancell the Receipt, as he should have done, & this is now acknowledged also by Mr Redhead. That aAbout the same time he the said Mr Redhead produced also two other Receipts of the aforesaid Mr Blofeld besides the three above mentioned both dated in the same month of August 1697 the one for 500li & the other for 1000li, but by the aforesaid Affidavit of r Allen these summs were accounted for upon the same 22th of Sept. 1697 & Mr Redhead insists no further upon them. And the said Mr Allen in the same Affidavit affirms further that he hath heard & beleivesbelieves that Mr Redhead hath another Note of Mr Blofeld for 1000li & beleivesbelieves that Mr Blofeld forgot to take up that Note when he accompted for yethe money & signed the printed Receipt or Ticket as above: wchwhich Note we take to be one of the three Receipts now produced by Mr Redhead. And we hear that the said Mr allen is positive that all Mr Blofelds Receipts were accounted for. And we find also that for preventing misrecconing an accoutn was taken by the Officer of that Mint every two or three days or oftener of the monies new coyned & paid away & what remained in the Treasury, whereby a misrecconing or deficiency of 2500li might mightwould soon have been discovered, had not those Receipts been forgotten brought to accounted for. And Mr Redhead himself affirms nothing further of their said three Receipts then that he found them amongst his papers sometime after theat Mint bokebroke up & believesbelieves them to be truly signed by one Mr Crowne the Age who was impoyed by Mr Demee the Agent of Mr Blofeld out considering all circumstances he insists not peremptorily upon them but submits them to yoryour Lordps wisdome. The Officers of that Mint for preventing misrecconings took an account every two or three days of all the moneys new coyned & payd away & what remained in the Treasury whereby a misrecconeing of 2500li would oon have been discovered had there been money not bringingmade not those receipts bearinaccount accounted for. They are in the form of private receipts so that without Mr Blofelds consent they cannot be allowed by the Auditors in discharge of Mr Blofelds Redheads debt eitehr in Mr Redheads AcctAccount or in that of Mr Blofelds Acct wchwhich is now passing. And all things being considered we are humbly of opinion that therey have already been accompted for & ought not to be insisted upon any further & Mr Redhead insisted upon any further. himself does not any loger insist peremptorily upon them but submits them to yoryour LordpsLordships wisdome.

We further lay before your LordpLordship that Mr Redhead at the conclusion of the Mint at Norwich was indebted to one Mr Chaplain a Receiver of the Land Tax for 2573oz. 5dwt of hammered money at 5s ꝑper ozounce the summ of 642li. 6s. 3d, & that in Mr Chaplains Accompt wchwhich is past & declared & Quietus obteined, Mr Redhead is set insuper for thatis debt at 5s 8d ꝑper ozounce. And for so much as Mr Redhead is overcharged in this Acct we are humbly of opinion that he have allowance by yoryour Lordps Warrant in his own Acct now ready to be laid before yor Lordp.

The said Mr Redhead was also indebted to Mr Briggs a Receiver of for 3529oz 10dwt of hammered money at 5s prper ozounce the summ of 882li. 7s. 6d. But the Administrators of the said Mr Briggs have passed his Accompts & obteined a Quietus without charging Mr Redhead with this debt & thence it is presumed that they haev either mislaid or lost Mr Redheads Tickets., & thereby have been dammaged in the said summ 882li. 7s. 6d