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have given me to [indecipherable] your press & will care that the different parts are made by different workmen that they shall be put together by an old & faithfull workman & that no one who is capable of copying it shall have access to it.
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Payment for drawings
I will give you for your designs £100 Ster. of 2400 [Four?]: & promise you that if Government use your presses they shall make you a further recompence. I do not doubt they will allow £100 clear for each at least I promise you that they shall not have them without your consent.
May 7, 1787
I wish you to be as expeditious as possible in preparing your shilling after which I wish you to proceed as quick as possible with the demi sol. I wish the work of the edge to agree with & make a part of the ornament round the side so that it cannot be copied by the ordinary milling machines & can only be struck by means of your contrivance, this will prevent counterfeits & convince the minister of the propriety of employing you.
No. 2, May 10
I wish you would provide for me a few shilling by the 4th of June but be sure do not fail to send me the desings [designs] for the press for it may require more time to make the half doz than the minister will allow me when once he has given his orders and as I wish to have one for myself I shall set out & make the different parts as soon as I receive your designs. I notice that you wish to have £200 for the 1st & £100 for each other & shall pay an ill compliment to your merit if I hesitate to agree to these terms. I therefore do agree to them without a word said, allow me however to hope that you will give me all the directions necessary for the multiplication of coins after your method if you do not steadily send a specimen of your shilling & demi sol or both, all my pains & expence will be thrown away.
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May 24