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and will send you near 200 per week untill you say stop. Young Morrison is worse than old Sage, and is not only a spy himself but is employing others.
See Weston often. I shall write to Mr. Lack tomorrow but I have been too much indisposed all day to do it.
As I sent weekly accounts to the Treasury it was their duty to have stopt my coining if I had been doing wrong, and not to suffer me to do it and then find fault. I ask no pardon nor will I accept of any.
They are puzzeling themselves with calculations about the cost of rolling hot and cold, cutting-out, coining, &c. &c. There need no other than to say to the Tower, "Will you deliver such a halfpeny to every town in the kingdom withut putting Goverment to any expence, but let it be struck in collers, milld deep on the edge, and concave on both sides"; and if they will, let them have the order; but if they will be content with such barberous money as has usualy been struck at the Tower, I will do it them 1d. per lb. cheaper, but it will not be so acceptable to the publick and will be easily counterfeited.
Yours . . . [The end of the letter is missing from the copy.]
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