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1000 marks was conveyed from York to Lochmaben for the 

 expenses of the king's army in Scotland.^ In August, imme- 

 diately 'after the celebrated siege of Caerlaverock, the sum of 

 £1000 was sent to the Court there for the use of the royal 

 household ;^ and in September two sums of the same amount 

 were sent from York for the like purpose, one of them being 

 transmitted to Carlisle, and the other to Rose Castle near that 

 city.^ At a later period of the same year a further sum of 

 £1000 was dispatched from York to the king at Carlisle.* In 

 the 32nd year of his reign. King Edward I. transmitted the 

 large sum of £4000 from York to Skamskynell in Scotland. ^ 

 The few transactions of which records are thus preserved must 

 necessarily have formed but a small proportion of the actual 

 business of the York mint at this stirring period. 



Although no earlier evidence of the fact has hitherto appeared, 

 the document I proceed to quote clearly shows that the royal 

 Mint of York, in its substantial and permanent form, stood 

 within the precincts of the castle of York, which, as Mr. 

 Drake observes, whilst it was in the king's hands, was the 

 storehouse and magazine for his revenues in the north.'' In the 

 27th year of King Edward III. a royal mandate was addressed 

 to the sheriff of Yorkshire, stating it to be the king's pleasure 

 that the money struck from gold and silver dies in the castle of 

 York should be made in the same manner as at the mint in the 

 tower of London ; and that Henry de Brussells, the master of 

 the tower mint, and William Hunt, keeper of the exchanges 

 in the city of York, were authorised to put into repair, and if 

 necessary rebuild the houses for the works of the mint in the 

 castle of York which stood in need of repair ; and requiring the 

 sheriff to assign to the same officers, houses and places within 



bankers as well as merchants. From the passage quoted in a preceding page from 

 Lowndes's Essay, p. 94, it might perhaps he erroneously implied that "one Frisco- 

 hald and others from Florence" were artists or artificers brought from Italy by the 

 king. See Frosf s Notices relative to the early history of Hull, p. 60. 



1 Lib. Quot., p. 65. ^Ibid, p. 68. 3 Ibid, p. 71. * Ibid, p. 83. 



* See Notes respecting the transmission of treasure in the former half af the 14th 

 century : By the Eev. Joseph Hunter. York Volume of the Archseol. Institute. 

 • Eboracum, p. 286. 



