Draft report: 'An accompt of what belongs to the Warden of his Mties Mint within the Tower of London', listing the buildings regarded as the warden's property and those that used to be regarded as such
An accompt of what belongs to the Warden of thehis Mats Mint within the Tower of Londo. vizt
1 A large dwelling house & a washouse thereunto adjoyning & a garden opposite thereuntoto both with a small house Contayning one roome at the end of it the sd. Garden now Inhabited by mr Young
2one other house Contayning 4 rooms next to the lyne & a wash house a lodging roome & some Cellarage over agaisnt it Inhabited by George Macy the Wardens Clerke
3 There was formerly a Coach house belonging to the sd Warden of the Mint between the Monyers kitching & mr Silvesters house Conta. about 12 foote in breadth to the front next the street, & abt 25 foote deepe
4. There was also a stable belonging to the warden at the further end of the Mint which hath bin made into Lodgings for souldiers since Converted
About the year 1633 Sr. Wm Parckhurst & Sr. Anty. St Leger were Wardens of the Mint at which time the Wardens dwelling house {illeg}was accounted from the house (wherein mr Roettiers now lives) into the Kitchin wherein yt G Macy below stairs {illeg}of ye aforesaid G Macys house, & Lovell with that above stairs & so upwards and all the roome over the Kitchin & Parlour that Macy posessethe, was then a publick office for the Irish mony & the Warden passed to it from his house above stairs thenlong after this one Rice Briyot (a frenchman) made a proposall to K C ye {sic} 2d to coin mony by the Mill & press beter then the monyers did before in that way so that then he had those rooms the sd. office or rooms abovestairs by a stair case added to those below allowed him by the officers & lived therein for a time, {illeg}And after his death the Monyers tooke posession thereof & kept it untill the Vnhappy Rebellion the when one Holland came to be Warden and he setled his Clerk into the sd. and after that {illeg}One St. Iohns was Warden & did the same to his Clerke so that from that time the sd {illeg} whole hath bin reputed reputed theas belonging to the Wardens {sic} house & belonging to {illeg} for himselfe & Clerks as aforesd
Source
MINT 19/1/25, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UKAfter 13 April 1696, c. 381 words.