Unfinished holograph draft of a covering letter forwarding MINT00404 (Mint 19/3/121), suggesting that the money needed should be found from coinage duty and from Stewart's executors

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To the Rt Honble the Earl of Godolphin Lord High Treasurer of great Britain.

May it please yor Lordp

In Obedience to your Lordps Order of Reference signified to us by Mr Taylor's Letter of 22th Instant upon the annexed Mem{illeg}orial of the General & other Officers of her Majties Mint at Edinburgh concerning the Bullion given by Act of Parliament for maintaining a free co{illeg}ynage in that Mint & collected by Mr Daniel Stuart now deceased & left in the hands of his Executors we have considered the same. {sic}. A{illeg}nd whereas it is representedsuggested that ye said Act of Parliamen{illeg}t is repealed we humbly represent to your Lordship that the coynage Duty now collected in its st{illeg}ead may be properly applyed by yor Lordp to the same uses of that Mint, as may also the Bullion in the hands of the said Executors. And since the the {sic} Officers of her Majties Mint at Edinburgh re