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The term granted to Mr. Wood for coining copper money is for 14 years only, the quantity for the whole term limited to 360 tons, 100 ton only to be issued within one year, and 20 tons each year for the 13 remaining years; a comptroller is appointed by the authority of the crown to inspect, comptrol, and assay the copper, as well not coined as coined; the copper to be fine British copper, cast into bars or fillets, which when heated red hot would spread thin under the hammer; a pound weight of copper to be coined into 2 shillings and sixpence, and without any compulsion on currency enforced, to be received by such only as would voluntarily and wilfully accept the same"; a rent of 800l per annum is reserved unto your Majesty, and 200l per annum to your Majesty's clerk comptroller, to be paid annually by the patentee, for the full term of the fourteen years, which for 13 years when 20 tons of copper only are coined, is not inconsiderable; these great and essential differences in the several patents, that have been granted for coining copper money for the kingdom of Ireland, seemed sufficiently to justify the care and caution that was used in granting the letters-patent to Mr.
From each car as it passed I snatched a handful of mud and small broken rock and thrust it into a sack that later went to the assay office to show what grade of ore the vein was producing.
To the genius of the place is owing the assay-office, for marking standard wrought plate, which, prior to the year 1773, was conveyed to London to receive the sanction of that office; but by an act then obtained, the business is done here by an assay master, superintended by four wardens: these are annually chosen out of thirty-six guardians, whose chief duty consists in dining together, at least once a year; for it appears from the chapter upon government, that feasting makes a principal part of a Birmingham office; and, however unwilling a man may seem to enter in we generally find him pleased when he is in.
In two minutes I must have been asleep like a log, and the first way I knew it was that I found myself out of bed, dragging on my clothes and grabbing up my gun. Whatever the row was about it was in the assay office. I heard Macartney yell my name through a volley of shots and knew we had both been made fools of.
Then I did up Macartney's arm, and the two of us went up the road to Dudley. He and his dry nurse, Baker, who'd promptly arrived from the bunk house, stumped straight back to the assay office with Macartney to fuss over the men who'd been killed.
He seemed to spring up out of the ground. He is a snapper up of unconsidered trifles, I'll be bound. The fellow claimed the hide: he said the skin was the keeper's fee." "That 'ould be he. I warrant he lent a hand in taking assay and breaking up the deer. Tis just what he enjoys." "Ah! I marked him disembowelling the poor dead beast in right good will, with hands besmeared with blood."
"The ones you brought here to file in the Assay Office." "I don't know what you're talking about." "Yes you do. Come now, or I'll ask the sheriff to search you." With a very bad grace the outlaw dove into his pocket and handed over a bundle of papers. Wandering Will we mean Detective Sam Kelly took them and handed them to Peggy.
In law he knows. "A duke has a right to a canopy, or cloth of state, in all places where the king is not present; a viscount may have one in his house; a baron has a cover of assay, which may be held under his cup while he drinks. A baroness has the right to have her train borne by a man in the presence of a viscountess.
It was some of this coin that was submitted to Sir Isaac Newton for assay. No. Hibernia, as in the last two, differing only in the date. No, VI. 1724. Hibernia, seated as in the three preceding; round her, HIBERNIA: in the exergue, 1724. Mason notes of this specimen: "Mr.
That heard one of the monks who stood thereby, and he thought and considered that his hour and time to die was come, and that it would be a good deed to slay so cruel a king and so evil a lord. Austin, this is fruit of our garden. Then the king looked evilly on him and said, 'Assay them, monk! So the monk took and ate thereof, nor changed countenance any whit: and the king ate thereafter.
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