Holograph list of proposed amendments to the Mint indenture, including an additional remedy of one grain for every ten quarter-guineas

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Pag. 3. lin. 1{illeg}5 Mint or Mints in great {illeg}Britain.

Ib. lin 31 Mint or Mints in the said Kingdom of England.

Pag 4. lin 10. five sorts of money of Crown Gold. One Piece wch shall be called the                   running for five shillings & three pence sterling, & there shall be one hundred & seventy & eight of those in the pound weight Troy.

Pag. 19. lin 19 add: & the sixteighth part of a grain from the counterpoise of the five shillings & three pence piece. And by reason of the difficulty of sizing the small pieces of five shillings & six pence piecesthre three pence wth equal exactness thisexactly His Maty doth hereby {illeg} appoint & ordern that thea Remedy to be allowed to in the trial of these pieces of gold a Remedy {illeg}of fourth fift part of a carrat be allowed in the trial of a pound weight of these & so proportionally in the of these small pieces of Gold, & proportionally in the trial of a greater of less quality of thereof the Remedy above mentioned of the sixt par{illeg}t of a carat, be enlarged by {illeg}allowing in weight one grain more for every ten pieces in the pound weight Troy assayed tried to

Pag. {illeg}3. l. 24 add excepting only such summs as shall be applied to the prosecuting of {illeg} those who diminish or ocounterfeit the current coins not exceeding four hundred pounds pe in any one year.