It is interesting to know that the Mint Lane Baptist Chapel, at Lincoln, was founded in 1767, by worshippers at Horncastle.
Snowden, "Mint Manual of Coins of all Nations," Introduction, pp.
Lay themint in the bottom of a chilled punch bowl and pour the syrup, with the sliced fruits, upon it.
A delicious mint flavor may be given to apple jelly by lining the bottom of a jelly glass with mint leaves or the juice may be flavored with essence of mint or winter green before it is boiled with the sugar.
With cold lamb, lettuce and chopped mint with French dressing.
For mint julep add one dozen sprigs of fresh mint to the lemon juice and sugar before adding the water.
Soak one cupful of chopped mint in one pint of water for one hour.
Pound the leaves of two dozen stalks of mint to a pulp, add to the syrup as above with the juice of two lemons and freeze or use mint extract.
Is a toothsome accompaniment to roast lamb, and is a novel variation to the customary mint sauce.
With spring lamb, mint sauce, boiled rice or new potatoes; peas or asparagus or green beans.
Strip the mint leaves from the stalks and wash them, chop them very fine, add the sugar and mix well, add the vinegar, stir well, and cover and stand aside for an hour.
Add three peeled lemons, sliced thin, and at least one dozen large sprigs of mint and one quart of pounded ice, stir and let stand several moments and then pour in from a good height two or three bottles of imported ginger ale.
At the sound of the tinkling glass, she turned, grasped a mint julep, and drank the whole of it at a single effort.
Attorney Case expected to smell mint sauce, and, as the covers were taken from off the dishes, looked around for lamb; but no lamb appeared.
Since the Restoration the Mint had, like every other public establishment in the kingdom, been a nest of idlers and jobbers.
During many generations, the instruments which were then introduced into our mint continued to be employed with little alteration.
The old officers of the Mint had thought it a great feat to coin silver to the amount of fifteen thousand pounds in a week.
The silver would flow into the mint so much faster than it could possibly flow out, that there must during some months be a grievous scarcity of money.
Ten furnaces were erected, in the garden behind the Treasury; and every day huge heaps of pared and defaced crowns and shillings were turned into massy ingots which were instantly sent off to the mint in the Tower.
He was hanged in the presence of an immense crowd of citizens, the gallows being a beam run out from one of the windows of the highest story of the Mint building.
Ellis, of North Carolina, seized the branch mint at Charlotte and the arsenal at Fayetteville, and called an extra session of the Legislature.
The church plate in France was sent to the mint for coinage.
The first deposit of California gold made in the United States mint by David Carter.
Boece mentions that Kenneth MacAlpine laid siege to the castle during the Pictish wars; and the same historian asserts that King Osbert of Northumbria occupied Stirling for a number of years, and established a mint in the fortress.
Marta returned with the cream, which was put in the ice-box, and she was then set at chopping the leaves of somemint for mint sauce.
Molly had found, on walking around Greenfield the first day they visited the house, a quantity of mint growing near, and had pulled a few roots and replanted them in the garden.
Marta, meantime, had put the plates and dishes to warm, and Molly sent the mint sauce to the table.
The query elicited from some official connected with the mint a reply to the effect that the cross had not the slightest significance.
Sherrington, however, escaped, and worked the mint for the equally unfortunate Protector.
Spiller was the original Mat of the Mint in the "Beggars' Opera.
Later a mint was established at Durham House by Sir William Sherrington, to aid the Lord Admiral Seymour in his treasonable efforts against his brother, the Protector, who finally offered him up a victim to his ambition.
But how often have I not insisted on the mint and anise and cummin, and forgotten the judgment, mercy and faith!
But just now out in the lane, Oh, the scent of mintwas plain!
Anyone who has not seen the London Mint will find the Melbourne Mintworth a visit.
The town received a charter in 1229 and derived some importance from the mint which the dukes of Burgundy founded in it.
Gold is called Jackson money; the United States mint has been actively employed in striking gold coins, half-eagles and quarter-eagles.
The removal to New York would also require the transference of the mint and some other public offices to that city, at great expense.
Curious as it may seem, the next decoration to be struck by the Mint was the rankers' Peninsular medal.
The Mint medal struck to commemorate our victories was the second award to carry clasps or bars--the officers' Peninsular medal being the first.
And we further require the said Commanders and Wardens of our Mint to keep several registers of the names of those, and of their country, for whom they shall give their certificate.
The next medal struck at the Mint was awarded to the soldiers who took arms in 1842, in Cabul.
In consequence of the dissatisfaction which the medal caused, another was struck by the Mint in London and sent out to the troops in 1845.
A note of plate Coyned The Carlisle money had the appearance of roughly made coinage, but that coming from the Beeston mint was innocent of even such resemblance.
The Mint medal issued in March 1846 bore the Wyon head of Victoria, with the words "Victoria Regina" on the obverse, but of the reverse there were three patterns.
This is certainly one of the finest productions which the London Mint has ever given us.
A native medal was also struck at the Mint for distribution among the Indian troops.
The Scarborough mint was no better equipped than that at Beeston, and what we have said of the latter applies also to the former.
The Mint medal bore the Wyon head of Victoria surrounded with the words "Victoria Vindex," whilst the rear showed a graceful figure of Victory, with wings, holding a flag and a laurel wreath.
There is a manufacture of fine felts, with a royal mint and glass-house.
From this it will be seen that there has been an enforced coinage by the Treasury, of almost twice as many silver dollars since 1878 as were coined in all the history of the mint before, since the establishment of the Government.
There was no pretense of setting up a double standard about it; for it was evident to the most ignorant that so great a disproportion between the mint and market ratios must inevitably lead to the disappearance of gold entirely.
In order that the alternate movements of silver and gold to the mint for coinage may be seen, there is appended a statement of the coinage(239) during the above periods, which well shows the effects of Gresham’s law.
The Director of the Mint issues an annual report dealing with the precious metals and the circulation.
The change in the relative values of gold and silver finally forced the United States to change their mint ratio in 1834.
If the mint kept back one per cent, to pay the expense of coinage, it would be against the interest of the holders of bullion to have it coined, until the coin was more valuable than the bullion by at least that fraction.
It was the best possible example of the bimetallic system to be found, and the mintratio was intended to conform to the market ratio.
A dollar of gold coin would now exchange for more grains of silver at the mint (15.
The process by which this result is produced is a simple one, and is adopted as soon as a margin of profit is seen arising from a divergence between the mint and market ratios.
Having seen the former steady fall in silver, and believing that it would continue, Congress hoped to anticipate any further fall by making the mint ratio of gold to silver a little larger than the market ratio.
This act made no further changes intended to adapt the mint to the market ratios, but remained satisfied with the gold circulation.
