Copy of letter to the Chester Mint requesting that animosity between individuals should not interrupt the running of that Mint

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To the Warden, Master Worker & Comptroller of the Mint at Chester

Gentlemen

Wee do hereby require & charge you that you forbear those animositys that are between you & do not suffer them to interrupt the regular & orderly proceedings att the Mint according to the Due Course thereof & particularly that you the Master & worker Mr Clarke & his assistant Lewis do produce & show their accounts to you the Warden & Controller or either of them as often as they shall require & do suffer them to inspect or have duplicates of them from time to time as they require for keeping them right and satisfying themselves & us about them whensoever we shall desire it & that all the sallerys which are payable by The Warden by the Indenture of the Mint be paid by Mr Clarke to Mr Weddell your warden for the Vse of the severall Officers & Clarks by & with his directions to the officers themselves and not otherwise the Indenture requiring it so, & but for saveing trouble itt should have been so all along, we also direct that Mr Lewis be paid his sallary as Comptroller Clerke for such part of your last quarter as he did the Business off the Comptroller Clerke & the sallary no longer (his sallary since depending only on the Master Worker & that Mr Greenhill be paid the Intire sallary of Comptroller Clarke for so long as he hath or shall do the whole business of the Comptrollers Clerk & wee are not of opinion that any new Clerk be imposed on the Comptrollers Office without further directions from hence these things we stricktly require of you as you will answer itt

&

remaine

your Loving friends

Is Newton

Tho Neale