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To the Right Honorable the Lords Commissioners
of his Majesty's Treasury
May it please your Lordships
In Obedience to your Lordship's Order of Reference of the 24th. of
Iuly Last past upon the Bill hereunto annexed of Mr.
chief Engraver of his Majesty's Seales, We humbly report to your
Lordships that we have considered and examined the same, and
do find by the perusall of the Warrants he has produced to us
that his Royall Highness the Prince of Wales when Guardian of
the Kingdom, had directed the making of the several seales in the
said b
it appeares that they were delivered to his Grace for the use of
Scotland, and as they have been Weighed in the Mint that they
are of the Weight expressed in the said Bill.
We farther humbly certifie your Lordships that we have
examined the Impressions of the said seales, and upon comparing them
with those of former seales remaining with us, made by his
predecessors, we find the work now performed by Mr. Gerard to be
good, and no way inferior to what has been done before, but as
he has over charged £10. –. in the privy seale mentioned in his
Bill to be made for North Britain, we are humbly of Opinion
that that sum ought to be deducted from his Bill, as likewise
the forty shillings he setts down for making draughts of several
seales, there being no precedent for such an allowance.
All which is most humbly submitted to your Lordship's
great Wisdom
Wm: Thompson
Is. Newton
Report of the Officers of
the Mint upon Bill
of Mr.
Engraver of his es.
th Iune 1719
My Lords agree to the t
allowing Mr Gerard the
10l craved by him for
the tl
td Iuly 1719