Proposes himself as the receiver to administer the Queen's tin
May it please yor Lordship
The Officers of the Mint being appointed by yor Lordship to sell her Majties Tin & order {sic}cause the price thereof to be paid to a Receiver whom your Lordp shall appoint & who shall account annually for the same: if yor Lordship, for lessening the number of Officers & making the business more expedite & less chargeable, shall think it for her Majties service that the said Receiver be an Officer of the Mint, I am willing, as I am yor Lordps Undertreasurer or Receiver for the business of the coynage, so by ye assistance of my Deputy & Clerk to undertake the charge of receiving & accounting for the price of the Tin. And as yor Lordshp understands best what is fittest for her Majties service so I make this offer with allabsolute submission to yor Lordps great Wisdom, being
My Lord
Yor
<475v>Royall Society
Source
MINT 19/3/475, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UKEarly 1704, c. 153 words.