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'1G2HELEN FARQUHAR.to the property of the Puncheons & Dyes for Medals remainingin the custody of M 1 8 .Roettiers, Observes thatthough he desired to see a copy of the Will (if any be) ofthe late Norbert Roettiers, yet no such thing is sent, Ifthere be such a paper it must be on record, and H.M. repeatshis orders that a copy of it should be sent to him.The King observes also that Mr . Carte's Declaration issingle & contrary to the accounts H.M. has received fromdifferent persons, every one of which he thinks deserves tobe equally credited, but in so far as the evidence of the saidM r . Carte can be of use to M rs . Roettiers or her son, whenthe point of right at present in controversy is to be determinedit will then doubtless be considered.H.M. has read a letter signed Phillips, which he supposesto be writ by M r . Carte 1T who seems to be agent forM. Roettiers in which are the following words :" There is one enquiry relating to this affair which to me; "seems natural to be made, vizt. Whether the King pays'any money to his Engraver General for the puncheons'& dyes that he makes for medals, ffor I suppose it is upon'presumption that the Kings claim is founded, and yetI never knew any body that is ready to presume it,ever'able to name any case in which such payment was actuallymade, or to specify the sum so payd. For my part I neverheard that any money was payd, but for the working off'the Medals made of such Bullion as the crown sends intothe Mint, nor can I learn by all the enquiry I have made,'That the crown pays anything for making the Puncheons& Dyes for Medals. I know that when a new Broad sealis to be made (as in the case of the demise of a Prince or such'considerable changes in the State as the Union, in which''case the old seal is a perquisite of the Lord Keepers) the'Crown gives a fee of 200 to the Engraver General formaking it, but I never heard that any such, or any othersum was ever given for the making Puncheons for Medals ;'If there was there is certainly an entry of it in the accomptsof the Household, Mint, & Treasury which are kept with'''great exactness in England, and as they are impartialWitnesses in this case may be easily searched by impartial''persons."17Thomas Carte, on suspicion of Jacobitism, had escaped toFrance in 1722 and there lived under the name of Philips until1728, when on the intercession of Queen Caroline he was allowedto return to England.