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£6,882,908 19 7
The following are the names of persons employed in the Mint at
Norwich:--
Francis Gardener, Esq., Treasurer.
Thomas Moore, Gent., Warder; Thomas Allen, his clerk.
Anthony Redhead, Gent., Master Worker; Mr. Beaser, his clerk.
William Lamb, Comptroller; Mr. Samuel Oliver, his clerk.
Heneage Price, Gent., King's clerk.
Mr. Rapier, Weigher and Teller.
Henry Yaxley, Surveyor of the Meltings.
Mr. John Young, Deputy Graver.
John Seabrook, Provost, and Master of the Moneyers.
Mr. Hartstongue, Assay Master, and his servant.--His brother,
Edger, and Lotterer of the Half-Crowns, Shillings, and Sixpences.
It is said crowns were not struck here, and I have never seen one
of this Mint.
The whole of the work was finished here, September 29, 1698.
In pulling up the floor of an old house, in Tombland, in 1847, a
quantity of the silver coin minted here was discovered, which, from the
appearance of the coins, were never in circulation: they were sold to
Mr. Cooper, silversmith, in London Street, for about 20_l._ No doubt the
coins were abstracted from the Mint during the process of coining.
In the Register of Burials at St. Gregory's is the following entry, A.
D. 1717:
"Joseph Nobbs, Parish Clerk of St. Gregory's, aged 89, was buried
November. 4, 1717, being the year following the last entry in his
Chronology. He was then 89 years of age, and, what is somewhat
remarkable, that is the age of the present Clerk of St.
Gregory's."