Holograph drafts of royal warrants to the Edinburgh master and officers to undertake coining according to the rules set out in Newton's indenture

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Our will & pleasure is & we do hereby authorize & command you & every of you that in the coynage of such gold & silver as shall be imported into or Mint adt E{illeg}dinborough you observe & act under the Rules of Coynage {illeg} wch respect your several Offices & are conteined & expressed in the Copy hereunto annexed of the Indenture made by wth Sr Isaac Newton {illeg} Knt Es Master of Our Mint in the Tower & hereunto annexedof London or shall be conteined in an attested Copy of the Indenture made wth the Master of or said Mint for the time being and particularly that you                              Master of or said Mint at Edinburgh do coyn the said gold & silver into the sevespecral species of money therein named& {illeg} mentioned making every species of the weight & finenes & within the remedy therin set down, & that you         Drummond EsMaster & Worker & you & Warden &                  Counterwarden of the said Mint do survey & chec the se{illeg} survey & che the proceedings of {illeg}all the rest of theother Officers of or said Mint see that all the moenys be well & duly coyned according to the said Rules & that the weight be {illeg}kept{illeg} {illeg} {illeg}to the standard weights {illeg}wch you shall receive from the Warden of yeOr Mint in the Tower & yt the several farces of money be not light then their counterpoiseds exprest in & that an exact acct be kept of all the Dies & Puncheons to that all the Dyes worn out may be d from time to time demanded of the Graver & defaced in yor presence. And for so this shall be yor Warrt.

To the General, Warden, Master, Counter-Warden
Assay-master & other Officers of or Mint at
Edinborough.

Our will & pleasure is & we do {illeg}he{illeg}reby authorise & require you to coyne the silver imported into or Mint at Edingburgh {illeg} into Crowns hal into crowns half crowns shillings & sixpences wth suchthe Dyes wch shall be sent you from or Mint in the Tower of London or wth such Dyes as shall be made by Puncheons set to you from thence, that the said moneyes coyned in yourour Mint at E may be perfectly like thatose coyned in or Mint in ye Tower of London except the letter E set under or Effigies for distinguishing the {illeg}moneys coyned in the said t{illeg}wo Mints. And we do further And we do further authorize you to command the Graver of or said Mint at Edinburgh to make Dyes & puncheons for coyning the said species of silver moneys so soon as his work shall be approved by you for coyning the said moneys perfectly like that coyned in the Tower of London. And we do to clean & polish ye Dies sent from ye Tower in due manner till they become unserviceable & t{illeg}o make newnew Dies wth the P. sent from the Tower & to makes {illeg} new Puncheons & use them for making of Dyes new Dyes so soon as his work shall be approved by you & by the {sic} the General, Warden, Master & Couterwarden {sic} at Edinbu of our said Mint at Edinburgh for makingcoyning the moneys coyned in that out Mint perfectly like the moneys coyned in our Mint {illeg}in the Tower of London. And we do further {sic} further require you to coyn at least one {illeg} tenth part of the standard silver into sixpences four tenth parts into shillings, three tenth{illeg}s into half crowsn {sic}, & the rest into crown pieces. And for so doing this shall be yor Warrt

To              Es master of or Mint
  at Edinbourgh.