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To the most Honble.
Lord High Treasurer of Great Britain.
May it please your p.
In obedience to your ps.r Lownds his Letter
of the 27th. of p.
of the whole quantity of Tyn chty.
remains unsold as well in our Custody in the Tower as in the hands of the
Agents for Tyn in Cornwal & Devon & at Hamburgh Holland or
with as near an estimate as we can of the value thereof, or what the same
when sold may produce in to the Exchequer. We humbly represent that upon
the 19th. Instant there were in the Tower 1919Tuns. 6 C. 2qr 9lich£. 16s
(the selling price at present) amounts to £145869 00s. 1d. In the hands of
the Agents in Cornwal were 835Tunns. 3 C. 3qr. 11lichs per
the selling price there, amounts unto £62639. 8s. 7d. In Devonshire
there were 34Tuns. 18 C. 1qr. 23 li. which after the same rate amounts unto
£2619. 4s. 2d. In the hands of Mr Beranger at Amsterdam there
were 1540 Tunns ch li. per
unto £123200. And in the hands of r
at Hamburgh there were 960 Tuns, which if they can be sold at the
same rate will amount unto £76800. The total quantity of the Tyn is
5289 Tunns 8 C 3qrs. 15 li. And the total price thereof according to the rates
above mentioned, is £411127. 12s. 10d.
All chps.