Draft list of editorial amendments to be made to a report on Chaloner

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p. 0. ThNB. The accts of ye Country Mints have not yet past ye Audit.

p. 2. lin 6. Read. At the same time our commerce with France brought us yearly in arrear of a million, & a vast

Ib. l. 30. dele – & the Indies.

Il l 32. Read. till all the legal silver coyn was vanished.

pag. 7. l. 20. read. Darius the Medo Persian Emperor whom Daniel calls Darius the Mede coyned pure golda King of the Medes & Persians ancienter then Darius Hystaspis coynd pure gold

pag 22 lin 5,6. Let ye summs 700000li & 130000li be reexamined.

p. 29. lin 5 {illeg} dele milled & lege hammered

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dyes by a small stroke of a hammer. That one man ––– cast money wth a groove, & that he {illeg} the greatest part of ye ham̄ered money was already recoynd, & that Peter Blondeau the Engineer Blemish who first set up ye way of coynage in the Tower by the Mill & Press coyned some crown piecesmilled money wth a groove but soon left of that way of coynage

p. 83 l. 16. after [purpose] add: & produced Pierce {illeg} as an evidence of wt he said. Mr H And Tho. Holloway

p 87 l 35.      sent back to ye Tower & an account registered & defaced according to ye {illeg} usuall practise of the Mint, they being of no further use. The {illeg} country Mints had kept their dyes so carefully that none were missing. Vpon examination it appeared that every Mint returned back the same number of dyes of every sort wch they had received from the Tower.