Copy of draft of request for permission to repair building in the Mint
To the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of his Majesties Treasury
May it please your Lordshipps
The press house in the Mint & part of the provost of the Monyrs house are ruinous and need to be rebuilt this summer. And the Charge of rebuilding the same according to our workmens Estemates hereunto Annexed amount to 580£: 00s: 00d
Wee further presume to lay before your Lordshipps that part of the Comptrollers house is verry old and decayed and not safe to be Inhabited the Walls being shrunk from the Timber and hitherto preserved by {illeg} soe that our workmen deem it requisite that the decayed part thereof (before it be again Inhabited) be rebuilt the Charge whereof by the annexed Estemate of our Workmen will amount to 335£: 10s 00d And wee most humbly pray your Lordshipps Order for rebuilding the privy
I Stanley
Is Newton
Tho Molyenux
Cha: Mason
Source
MINT 1/7/6, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK11 May 1700, c. 151 words.