To the RtRight HonbleHonourable the Lords CommrsCommissioners of his MajtsMajestys TrearyTreasury.

May it please yoryour LordpsLordships

In obedience to yoryour LordpsLordships Order of Reference signified to us the Officers of his MajtsMajestys Mint by Mr Lowndes, we have considered the Memorial of the Chancellour of Ireland about erecting a Mint in that Kingdom & also the Report of the late Warden & Master ofand the other Papers accompanying the said Memorial and finding upon enquiry into the state of the coyn of Ireland that the forreign coyns wchwhich make a great part of their silver monies are generally in great pieces wchwhich are inconvenient for change in marketing, & other small expences and that by the want of smaller silver monies the coyning of greater quantities of Copper monies for change hath been so much encouraged as to be complained of: we are humbly of opinion that this inconvenience may deserve to be remedied by recoiyning the said forreign monies or some part thereof into smaller monies of the same weight and allay species & impression wthwith the monies of England, adding only such a mark of distinction as his MajtyMajesty shall think fit. And we beleivebelieve it cheapest & best for Ireland and safest for England to have this coynage performeddispatcht at once by erecting a Mint to be erected some in Ireland for some short time (suppose of a year & an halfas eighteen months or two years) under the same Laws & Rules by Indenture wthwith this in the Tower & we but wthwith less salaries & fewer Officers wchwhich may be easily done. & by lowering the value of the forreign moneys so much as may suffice from time to time to bring them into yethe Mint & we are very ready to promote such a designe & prarticularly to supply that Mint wthwith standard weights & Tryal pieces & Dyes & Coyning Tools & to examintry their money. by weight & assay

But iIf a lasting Mint be desired for coyning the Bullion of Merchants & others perpetually, we know not of what consequence such a Mint may prove & thereforehumbly beg leave to repeat a clause of a Memorial, wchwhich orour Predecessors almost forty years ago, in opposing the erection of a Mint for 21 years in Ireland laid before yoryour Lord HonbleHonourable Board, & a Copy of wchwhich is now communicated to us by Mr Lowndes. "It hath been, say they, the Policy & caution 219 of Kings & Queens of England to stock their Realm of Ireland with moneys (both for quantity & quality) coyned in their Majintyt in the Tower of London whereof one part yet retains the name of the Irish Mint: and King IJames (of happy memory) by his Indenture of the Mint caused his monies stampt for Ireland to be charged with an Harp crowned for distinctions sake, whose Reasons and Examples (as we submissively conceive) may well admit yoryour Lordships first consideration"

The consequence of a standing Mint in Ireland in respect of the Government & Trade of England we are not able to foresee, but in this and every thing submitt orour opinion to yoryour LordpsLordships great wisdome