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To the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of His Majestys Treasury⁠—

May it please Your Lordships 

There hath been Received into His Majestys Jewel Office from Mr. Thomas Minors His Majestys Goldsmith divers Quantities of Gold Works, Gilt, and White Plate, which with money by him disburst, do amount unto the Sum of One Thousand Fifty Seven pounds Eighteen Shillings and Six pence, as by this brief accompt doth appear.  All which hath been delivered into the Said Office in the Half Year from Christmas 1752 to Midsumer 1753. 

  £ S D
For 65 oz. 12 dwt. 12 grs. Of Gold Works finely wrought and Enamelled 432.10. 0 
For 312 oz. 10 dwt. Of New Gilt Plate 188.19.10
For 571 oz. 1 dwt. Of New White Plate 250. 4. 2
For New Gilding 153 oz. 10 dwt. Of His Majestys Plate 23. 0. 6
For New making 252 oz. 16 dwt. Of White Ditto with Silver added 47.17. 6
For Boiling Repairing and Burnishing 3746 oz. of Do. with Silver added 47. 7. 0
To the Engraver for Engraving His Majestys Arms on Several parcels of Plate 14.12. 0
To the Casemaker for Cases 20. 8. 0
To the Cutler for Blades, and for Porteridge &ca. 17.19. 6
To the Officers for Half a Years allowance to Midsumer 1753 15. 0. 0
  £1057.18. 6

allow'd this Account

Breadalbane⁠—

The Particulars of the within mentioned Account are as follow 

Gold Works 

  oz.dwt.grs. £  S.  d. 
To the Right Honourable the Earls of Rothes, & Brooke Each a Gold Collar of the Order of the Thistle and a Gold Enamelled St. Andrew appentant thereto 65.12.12 432.10. 0

Gilt Plate 

  oz.dwt. £  S.  d.   
To the Dutchess of Gordon Christning Plate 200. 3. 116.15. 1  
To the Right Honourable Wm. Finch Ditto 100. 7. 58.10. 9   
Two Messengers Escutcheons 12. 0. 13.14. 0  
  312.10   188.19.10

White Plate 

  oz.dwt. £  S.  d.   
To three Setts of Plate for the use of His Majestys Chapels at North-Carolina, the Leeward Islands, and New York 536.13. 232.10.10  
To the Serjeant Trumpetter a Collar of S.S. 20. 4. 12. 4. 6  
A Ladle for His Majestys Service 14. 4. 5. 8.10  
  571. 1.   250. 4. 2
For New Gilding 153 oz. 10 dwt. Of His Majestys Plate     23. 0. 6
For New making 252 oz. 16 dwt. Of Ditto with Silver added     47.17. 6
For Boiling Repairing and Burnishing 3746 oz. Of Ditto with Silver added     47. 7. 0
    £  S.  d.   
  To the Engraver 14.12. 0  
  To the Casemaker 20. 8. 0  
  To the Cutler and Porteridge &ca. 17.19. 6  
  To the Officers for Half a Years allowance to Midsumer 1753 15. 0. 0  
      67.19. 6 
      £1057.18. 6