IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS 51
Held at: Senate House Library, University of London
Title: Indenture appointing Thomas Neale to the Royal Mint
Date(s): 1686
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 volume containing 45 leaves.
Name of creator(s): Unknown
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The English Royal Mint was responsible for the making of coins according to exact compositions, weights, dimensions and tolerances, usually determined by law. English minting was run from the Royal Mint in London by the Master and Warden of the Mint. For several centuries control of policy relating to the coinage rested soley with the monarch, with Parliament finally gaining control following the Revolution of 1688. The Mint itself worked as an independent body until that date, when it came under the control of the Treasury.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Manuscript volume containing a copy of an indenture ratifying and confirming the appointment of Thomas Neale to the office of Master and Worker of the Mint, 23 Jul 1686, with a table of the fees and salaries of the officers of the Royal Mint in the Tower of London. Thomas Neale was appointed Master and Worker of the Mint by King Charles II in 1678, and continued in office under King James II and King William III until about Jan 1699. His name appears on several medals of William III.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Single item.
Conditions governing access:
Access to this collection is unrestricted for the purpose of private study and personal research within the supervised environment and restrictions of the Library's Palaeography Room. Uncatalogued material may not be seen. Please contact the University Archivist for details.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.
Physical characteristics:
Manuscript folio. Bound in vellum.
Finding aids:
Collection level description.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Part of the Goldsmith's Library of Economic Literature, initially collected by Herbert Somerton Foxwell and presented by the Goldsmith's Company to the University of London in 1903.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
Other University of London Manuscripts relating to the Royal Mint and coinage include MSS 14, 21, 62, 72, 100, 102, 108, 151, 152, 154 and 499.
Another copy, dated 2 Apr 1686), is held at the Bodleian Library, Oxford University (Ref: MS Rawl c204).
Publication note:
The manuscript is printed in part in Ming-hsn Li The great recoinage of 1696-1699 (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1963).
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Smith as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.
Date(s) of descriptions: Jul 2000