To the RtRight HonbleHonourable the Earl of Godolphin Lord High Treasurer.

May it please yoryour LordpLordship

According to yoryour LordpsLordships verbal Order to lay before yoryour LordpLordship Memorials of what may be requisite for setting on foot the coynage in the Mint in Scotland with expedition, I humbly represent that upon being informed that there is but one Clerk in that Mint for rating & standarding, that for want of more Clerks errors are sometimes committed & the silver not rightly standarded, that their assays & rating & standarding & way of Book-keeping differ from our'sours & must be set right, & that none of their chief Officers have yet acquainted themselves with our practise: I have spoke with Dr Gregory Professor of Astronomy at Oxford (as I acquainted your LordpLordship) & with one of the Clerks of the Mint in the Tower, about going to Edingburgh to instruct their Officers & Clerk & assist them in their business till Michaelmas next. And if your LordpLordship approves thereof, I humbly propose that for setling this matter, a suitable recompense for that service may be appointed, the consideration thereof (if yoryour LordpLordship pleases) being first referred to such persons as yoryour LordpLordship shall think fit.

And whereas Dyes & Puncheons are to be sent from hence till such time as the work of the Graver of that Mint shall be approved, I further humbly propose that the prizes of these things may be also referred & setled.

All wchwhich is most humbly submitted to yoryour LordpsLordships

great wisdome