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Calendar of Treasury Papers
… 1725, referring a peticon of Martha, the widow of the late S r Robert Johnson, who was heretofore Commander of several … commands at the Assay of the copper money remaining in the Pix in the Tower of London, and attended Sir Isaac Newton, who with the other proper officers opened the Pix, in which several half pence and farthings taken out of …
Calendar of Treasury Papers
… 1728.] 1. A List of the several Governours of his Majesty's Plantac[i]ons whose salaries are paid out of the 4 & per … Reynolds, widow, to the Lords of the Treasury. Petitioner's husband was a lieutenant in the Hon. Col. Thomas Harrison's … pieces being quite used up by the several trials of the pix. The Jury of Goldsmiths have represented to the Privy …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Interregnum
… sat. [ Also G. 9, pp. 4, 5.] Nov. 2. Council of State. Day's Proceedings. 2. Sir Hen. Mildmay and Mr. Holland added to … can. 12. Notice to be given to the Mint officers that the Pix box is not to be removed out of the Tower, until further … Mint and Exchequer officers concerning the trial of the Pix; to meet next Monday at Whitehall, and Sir Robert Harley, …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Interregnum
… list of the ships appointed by Parliament for this winter's guard, and orders to provide gunners' stores for them. You … the Mint. 14. Mr. Holland to move the House that the old Pix may be tried, so that there may be a new coining of the … out of whom the Council may elect one. 2. The trial of the Pix to be made next Monday at 9 a.m., all of the Council now …
Calendar of Treasury Papers
… 1696 May 15July 18, 1696 1696. May 15. 1. Report of Mr. S. Travers, Surveyor-General, to the Lords of the Treasury, … Bee pleased to acquaint y e Treasury that it is the King's pleasure that a privy seal do pass for what moneys I have … 8 June 1696. 1 page. June 8. 40. A few memoranda about the Pix (Mint). Dated 8 June 1696. A few lines. June 9. 41. A …
Calendar of Treasury Papers
… of the Treasury, on the petition of the Duke of St. Alban's, as to the grant of the duties on logwood, adverse to the … the Tressury, on the petition of Mr. Herbert, His Majesty's clockmaker, for payment of his bill of 293 l. [It appears … Privy Council, for the trial of His Majesty's coins in the pix of the Mint, within the Tower of London. Dated 6 July …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… of Land Tax for Stoke Dry for the year 1709 on Mr. Cowper's certificate into the Exchequer that 52 l. 7 s. 6 d. was in arrear for that town "when he passed" [his … bullion doth arise above or fall below the standard. A pix to be kept in manner here laid down and to be tried at …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… p. 429. Disposition Book XX, p. 191. Same for 12 l. 10 s. 0 d.to Thomas Fox for same quarter for keeping the … 17th ult. you desire directions as to the transporting the Pix [from Edinburgh to London] and what officers will be … in Council of May 14 last appointing the Trial of the Pix at the house inhabited by the Usher within the Receipt of …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… the Post Office for 1710 Lady day quarter (total 731 l. 6 s. 10 d.) and 1710 June 24 quarter (total 1,165 l. 9 s. 5 … I am now informed that no part of the money in the Pix [at the Edinburgh Mint] was coined since the approbation … Master of that Mint. His attendance at the Trial of the Pix in London may therefore be dispensed with. Please direct …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… sign manual for 20,000 l. to Samuel Smythin, the Queen's Goldsmith, for goldworks, gilt and white plate and other … delivered or to be delivered into the Jewel House. Queen's Warrant Book XXV, p. 39. July 2. Royal warrant dated … declared and the balance paid into the Exchequer and the Pix has likewise been tried since his death by a Jury of …