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50 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.
mint. More probably it was money brought there,
as to
a place of security, to meet the King's " chardges." So
understanding these passages, then Irish minted money of
Edward VI. (if it exists) is to be looked for among his
coins of a date later than July, 1550.
From causes which perhaps may be divined, the newly
erected mint, and the bullion brought to the mint, were
not placed under the control of Bellyngham. This dis-
pleased him ; he was now Lord Deputy, and his dis-
pleasure found expression in the remonstrance which
forms the subject of a letter " to my Lord Great Master,
John Duddelay, Earl of Warwick" (an enclosure in a
letter from the Lord Deputy to the Protector Somerset).
In answer to his Lordship's letter, touching the exemption
of the mint from Bellyngham's rule, "he reckons he
should be privy to the King's treasure in the mint, or in
any other place in Ireland. He has neither bought
house, land, fee, nor office, diced nor carded, nor otherwise
lasciviously and riotously spent, nor unworthily given, the
King's treasure, nor yet hidden nor lent what he has
remaining." And then (by way of contrast," I suppose)
he names one Agard, or Agar, as " having spent 2,000
of the Bristol coin which he brought over to his own use,
besides the 1,000 delivered to him for bullion." This
letter is dated November 22, 1548, and is, as I have said,
the first notice we find in the calendar of State Papers
concerning the Dublin mint. The second occurs in
March of the following year, 1549, in the form of a com-
plaint to the Lord Deputy, from Harry Coldwell, " graver
of the mint at Dublin," to this effect
"
he has not one
iron to sink, in his office, at the present hour."
In December Lord Deputy Bellyngham made room
for Sir Anthony Sentleger, who had held the office once