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6520 | MINT00002 | Appointment of Edward Harley as keeper of the officers' diet [ie. caterer], succeeding Richard Millard | 14 | 38 | 119 | 8 June 1622 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6521 | MINT00003 | Clerical copy of royal warrant allocating salaries to each post in the Mint | 14 | 38 | 1,292 | 17 July 1667 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6522 | MINT00004 | The three commissioners invite tenders for melting from [Thomas] Thornton, the present melter, and Edward Robinson | 14 | 38 | 266 | 9 August 1680 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6523 | MINT00005 | Appointment of Frances Harley as keeper of the officers' diet, succeeding her late husband Edward | 14 | 38 | 142 | 23 October 1680 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6524 | MINT00006 | Receipt for Mint documents and equipment | 57 | 38 | 351 | 25 February 1683/4 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6525 | MINT00007 | Report on the warden's duties | 61 | 38 | 629 | 23 February 1684 [= 1685] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6526 | MINT00008 | Appointment of Hannah Briggs as keeper of the officers' diet | 14 | 38 | 139 | 5 September 1685 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6527 | MINT00009 | Receipt for Mint documents and equipment | 62 | 38 | 282 | 15 March 1688/9 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6528 | MINT00010 | Extract from [previous master] Thomas Neale's indenture | 1 | 38 | 967 | 2 April 1689 | [Copies of the full indenture in PRO, C66/3325 and E351/2103, calendared in Challis, History, 748.] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6529 | MINT00011 | Treasury warrant to master and comptroller to give Thomas Anderson charge of the engineer's office and the tools and machinery in it | 1 | 38 | 141 | 3 November 1690 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6530 | MINT00012 | List of wardens, masters, comptrollers and other officers 1603-1692 | 1 | 38 | 279 | Between 13 April 1695 and 26 December 1699 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6531 | MINT00013 | 'A Copy of a Deputation of the Warden Master Controller' | 1 | 38 | 251 | 1696 | Form for appointment of deputies to members of the Mint Board, with blanks for insertion of specific names and posts. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6532 | MINT00014 | Royal warrant allocating the division of 14d. poundage between the Mint officers and moneyers, and fixing the formers' salaries | 14 | 38 | 763 | 18 March 1695/6 | Another clerical copy of the same date in PRO, Mint 1/6, p. 15. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6533 | MINT00015 | Treasury certificate that Newton has taken an oath not to reveal the new method of rounding and edging coin | 38 | 73 | 2 May 1696 | [The oath itself, taken by Newton on the same date, is in T.1/37.53, MINT00921 (printed in NC, 4: 201-2).] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6534 | MINT00016 | 'The State of the Mint' | 1 | 38 | 540 | June? 1696 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6537 | MINT00017 | Petition to Treasury: 'The humble Memoriall of Ionathan Ambrose Melter to his Majties Mint in the Tower' | 14 | 38 | 243 | c. July 1696 | [Note on dating: MINT00018 (Mint 19/1/194) states that this petition was referred to the Mint on 4 August 1696; in the petition itself Ambrose refers to silver plate he has melted since 4 May.] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6538 | MINT00018 | Response to MINT00017 (Mint 19/1/198-9). | 14 | 38 | 538 | 10 December 1696 | Signed by Newton and [master] Thomas Neale, dated by Neale. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6541 | MINT00019 | Another clerical copy of MINT00018 (Mint 19/1/194) | 14 | 38 | 525 | 10 December 1696 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6542 | MINT00020 | 'An Account of the Mint in the Tower of London' | 1 | 38 | 1,449 | Early 1697 | Reproduced almost verbatim in the report of the Committee for Miscarriages of the Mint, 8 April 1697 (PRO, Mint 2/11), reprinted in Ruding, Annals of the Coinage, 2: 465 [See Challis, History, 358 for an account of this committee and its enthusiastic reception of Newton's report.] This version printed in NC, 4: 233-6. Another copy in Pierpont Morgan Library, Acc. No. MA317(6). | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6544 | MINT00021 | Further holograph draft of MINT00020 (Mint 19/1/2-3) | 1 | 38 | 1,731 | Early 1697 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6545 | MINT00022 | 'The state of the Mint & Coynage according to the best of my knowledge' | 1 | 38 | 2,193 | Early 1697 | Variant draft of MINT00020 (Mint 19/1/2-3), with further details of salaries, expenses, equipment and financial arrangements. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6546 | MINT00023 | Order to Mint to seize all [former engraver] James Roettier's puncheons, dies and presses | 1 | 38 | 45 | 2 February 1696/7 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6547 | MINT00024 | Response to the tender of Peter Floyer and Charles Shales for melting down hammered silver coin and converting it into standard silver: their proposed fee is excessive and they should be beaten down | 1 | 38 | 217 | 22 February 1696 [= 1697] | Draft of T. 1/43.53, MINT00927, which is signed by Newton and [master's assistant] Thomas Hall (printed in NC, 4: 236-7). The (undated) tender in question is in PRO, T. 1/42.16. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6548 | MINT00025 | Partial holograph draft of MINT00024 (Mint 19/1/197) | 1 | 38 | 103 | Before 22 February 1696 [= 1697] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6549 | MINT00026 | Petition for a salary increase | 65 | 38 | 346 | Before 21 January 1698 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6550 | MINT00027 | Referral of MINT00026 (Mint 19/1/104), in the same clerical hand | 70 | 38 | 61 | 21 January 1697 [= 1698] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6551 | MINT00028 | Royal warrant of 3 July 1669 appointing the brothers John, Joseph and Philip Roettier (Rotier) engravers for life, specifying their duties and salaries and conferring a monopoly on engraving Mint coin | 1 | 38 | 1,248 | 15 August 1698 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6552 | MINT00029 | Petition for a pay increase | 212 | 38 | 198 | c. September 1698 | [Note on dating: this is presumably the document referred to in MINT00030 (Mint 19/2/499), which mentions the clerks' petition having been referred by the Treasury on 6 October 1698.] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6553 | MINT00030 | Response to the clerks' petition for a pay increase [presumably MINT00029 (Mint 19/2/498)] | 1 | 38 | 272 | 6 December 1698 | [This recommendation, and similar ones of 1702, 1705 and 1718, were all overruled by the Treasury: see Craig, NATM, 114.] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6555 | MINT00031 | Variant holograph draft of MINT00030 (Mint 19/2/499), much less strongly worded and less specific in its recommendation | 1 | 38 | 133 | 6 December 1698 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6556 | MINT00032 | Laudatory account of the services of the late comptroller James Hoare during the recoinage | 1 | 38 | 164 | 8 April 1699 | Signed by the Mint Board (but Neale's signature has been struck out). | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6559 | MINT00033 | Holograph memorandum on engraver [Henry] Harris's complete incompetence: 'Mr Harris cannot emboss nor punch, nor draw'. He has employed John Croker to do all this for him, and moreover has failed to remunerate Croker as promised | 1 | 38 | 408 | 1700? | Printed in NC, 4: 350-52. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6560 | MINT00034 | Receipt for weighing machines and trial pieces | 73 | 38 | 120 | 26 May 1700 | Sent upon Stanley's succeeding Newton as warden. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6562 | MINT00035 | Holograph copy of the master's oath, with draft certificate in Latin that Newton took it in 1700 | 1 | 38 | 140 | After 26 December 1699 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6563 | MINT00036 | Clerical copy of the master's oath | 14 | 38 | 113 | After 26 December 1699 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6564 | MINT00037 | 2,000 had been the customary security for the mastership until the previous incumbent, Thomas Neale, gave 15,000 to allay doubts raised by his somewhat dubious financial history | 1 | 38 | 235 | 21 June 1700 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6566 | MINT00038 | Another holograph draft of MINT00037 (Mint 19/1/64) | 1 | 38 | 270 | 21 June 1700 | And of a letter offering as securities Charles Montagu [Chancellor of the Exchequer], and either Thomas Hall [master's assistant], [Peter] Floyer [metal broker and melter to the Exchequer 1696-9] or Thomas Pilkington. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6567 | MINT00039 | Clerical copy of Treasury warrant dated 3 August 1680, requiring securities of 2,000 each from the three commissioners appointed on 15 July 1680, John Buckworth, Charles Duncomb [Duncombe] and comptroller James Hoare | 1 | 38 | 390 | c. June 1700 | [See Challis, History, 355 and 747, for the appointment of this triumvirate on 15 July 1680 to take over the duties of the suspended master Henry Slingsby. Newton clearly used this document as supporting evidence for MINT00037 (Mint 19/1/64).] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6568 | MINT00041 | Request consideration of a petition submitted some time ago by the Bank's tellers for payment for services at the Mint during the recoinage | 213 | 38 | 145 | 26 April 1701 | Signed by four officers of the Bank. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6569 | MINT00042 | Application for the post of weigher and teller, with details of his previous service | 90 | 38 | 226 | Mid-1701 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6570 | MINT00043 | Copies of applications for the post of weigher and teller from Philip Shales, Charles Brattell, George Foord (deputy warden) and Thomas Edwards | 1 | 38 | 608 | Before 7 August 1701 | On reverse of Mint 19/1/116, in the same clerical hand: Treasury's referral of these applications to the Mint, dated 7 August 1701. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6571 | MINT00044 | Recommends Hopton Haynes for the post of weigher and teller, giving an account of his previous employment at the Mint (as a clerk) and elsewhere | 1 | 38 | 706 | 5 September 1701 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6573 | MINT00045 | Various drafts of MINT00044 (Mint 19/1/121) | 1 | 38 | 3,335 | Before or on 5 September 1701 | Mint 19/1/124-5 is also dated 5 September 1701. On reverse of Mint 19/1/119: holograph copy of Herodotus's account of Semiramis. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6574 | MINT00046 | The 60 p.a. allowed for a master's assay master (as distinct from the royal assay master) has for a long time been paid to the deputy master, who has authority to examine the work of the royal assay master | 1 | 38 | 267 | 1702? | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6576 | MINT00047 | Further to a petition from probationer engraver [Samuel] Bull, recommend raising his salary from 50 to 60 p.a. plus piece work | 1 | 38 | 238 | 1702 | Printed in NC, 4: 395-6. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6577 | MINT00048 | 'Articles made the 25th day of ffebruary [...] 1701 Between Isaac Newton Esqr Master and Worker of his Maties Mint of the one part And Phillip Shales of London Gen. on the other part' | 1 | 38 | 1,875 | 25 February 1701 [= 1702] | Contract appointing Shales as melter. Attached, in the same clerical hand, is 'The Inventory and Appraisement of Tooles and Utensils belonging to the Melting Houses in his Maties Mint in the Tower of London Appraised by Edward Sylvester and Peter Iohnson the Eight day of December 1681'.On reverse: signature of [warden] John Stanley as witness. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6578 | MINT00049 | Royal warrant authorising Newton to continue to act under the indenture of 23 December 1700 after William III's death, pending formulation of a new indenture. | 1 | 38 | 294 | 9 March 1702 | [NC suggests the date 9 March, presumably on the grounds that this was the day after Anne's accession.] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6580 | MINT00050 | Holograph draft of MINT00049 (Mint 19/1/416) | 1 | 38 | 270 | 9 March 1702 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6581 | MINT00051 | 'A Copy of the Patent of the Master & Worker of the Mint in the Tower of London' | 1 | 38 | 786 | 11 June 1702 | Heading and endorsement added in Newton's hand. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6584 | MINT00052 | Offers 4,000 security against renewal of his mastership: 2,000 himself and 1,000 each from Thomas Hall [master's assistant] and John Francis Fauquier [deputy master] | 1 | 38 | 68 | 20 August 1702 | Final version, dated 16 October 1702, in the University Library, Basel (printed in NC, 4: 392-3). This draft commented on in NC, 7: 428 (no. 652). See also CTB, 17, part 1 (1702): 368 for the Treasury's referral of this offer (19 October) and ibid., 382, for the Treasury warrant to accept it (6 November). | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6585 | MINT00053 | Holograph draft of bond for Newton's re-appointment as master | 1 | 38 | 249 | Mid-late 1702? | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6586 | MINT00054 | Patent re-appointing Henry Harris as engraver on the same terms as in the Roettiers' 1669 warrant [see MINT00028 (Mint 19/1/137-9)] | 1 | 38 | 627 | 26 September 1702 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6587 | MINT00055 | Correspondence between Newton and [Attorney General] Edward Northey concerning the master's securities | 214 | 38 | 711 | October 1702 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6590 | MINT00056 | Holograph drafts of MINT00055(a) (Mint 19/1/411-2) | 1 | 38 | 2,014 | October 1702 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6591 | MINT00057 | Holograph copy extract from Robert Brackenbury's indenture of 20 July 1483 showing that the master found securities before the indenture was signed, with notes on ten other precedents for this order of procedure dating back to the fourteenth century | 1 | 38 | 867 | c. October 1702 | [This and the following three entries were obviously collected in connection with MINT00055(a) (Mint 19/1/412).] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6592 | MINT00058 | Extract to the same effect from John Lonison's indenture of 1572, with note (in a different hand) that the same applied to Richard Martin under James I and to Robert Harley under Charles I | 1 | 38 | 233 | c. October 1702 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6593 | MINT00059 | Extracts to the same effect from earlier masters' (Robert Brackenbury's, John Lonison's and Henry Slingsby's) indentures | 1 | 38 | 801 | c. October 1702 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6594 | MINT00060 | List of indentures and warrants relating to coinage made under Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI and Elizabeth | 1 | 38 | 118 | c. October 1702 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6595 | MINT00061 | Original royal indenture confirming Newton's mastership and setting out his duties | 1 | 38 | 10,472 | 14 January in the first year of Queen Anne [1703] | Copy in PRO, C66/3437, calendared in Challis, History, 749-50. Another copy in Trinity College, Cambridge, R.4.48d. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6596 | MINT00062 | Applications for the post of engraver | 1 | 38 | 1,192 | August 1704 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6602 | MINT00063 | Response to the applications at MINT00062 (Mint 19/1/140-45) and others | 1 | 38 | 686 | 23 August 1704 | Signed by the Mint Board. For further details of Newton's revamping of the engraving branch and the individuals involved, see Craig, NATM, 54-5. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6605 | MINT00064 | Further draft of MINT00063 (Mint 19/1/170-71) | 1 | 38 | 1,285 | Before or on 23 August 1704 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6606 | MINT00065 | Further holograph drafts of MINT00063 (Mint 19/1/170-71) | 1 | 38 | 1,531 | Before or on 23 August 1704 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6607 | MINT00066 | Further draft of MINT00063 (Mint 19/1/170-71) | 1 | 38 | 554 | Before or on 23 August 1704 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6608 | MINT00067 | Partial holograph draft of MINT00063 (Mint 19/1/170-71), followed by a partial holograph draft of MINT00070 (Mint 19/1/172-3) | 1 | 38 | 379 | August-October 1704 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6609 | MINT00068 | 'A Proposal for regulating the Gravers Office' | 1 | 38 | 105 | 8 September 1704 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6611 | MINT00069 | Oppose [Gabriel] le Clerk's petition to succeed Harris as engraver: would like to take him on as third engraver under Croker and Bull, but not until summer 1705, due to the cost of repairs occasioned by last year's storms [see MINT00063 (Mint 19/1/170-71)] | 1 | 38 | 187 | 13 September 1704 | Signed by Newton and [comptroller] John Ellis. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6616 | MINT00070 | Reply to a query about the engravers' patent | 68 | 38 | 345 | 12 October 1704 | Date added in Newton's hand. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6617 | MINT00071 | Drafts of MINT00070 (Mint 19/1/172-3) | 68 | 38 | 1,069 | Before or on 12 October 1704 | Mint 19/1/146 is in a clerical hand, amended by Newton; Mint 19/1/157 is holograph. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6618 | MINT00072 | Holograph draft of a warrant authorising Croker and Bull to take charge of all engraving tools and machines | 1 | 38 | 245 | Late 1704 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6620 | MINT00073 | Holograph preparatory notes, followed by draft letter, in response to a petition from the engravers | 1 | 38 | 581 | Mid-1706 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6622 | MINT00074 | Following the moneyers' petition, the House of Commons has granted the Mint an extra 500 for salaries and maintenance from Christmas 1705 | 1 | 38 | 582 | 25 September 1706 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6624 | MINT00075 | Petition to the Mint Board: 'The Case of Charles Stuart one of the Monyers belonging to Her Majties Mint in the Tower of London' | 1 | 38 | 1,610 | 1711? | Over a year ago, the Company of Moneyers proposed new laws imposing a fine of 500 on any of their members who undertook private contracts at a lower rate than that fixed by the Company. Stuart refused to subscribe to this, considering it illegal. Since this date the Company has deprived him of his salary, despite his continuing to work as diligently as ever. At the Company's suggestion, the case was taken to arbitration, and Council found in Stuart's favour, denying the Company's right either to enact any such law or impose any such punishment. His salary is, however, still being withheld, and he looks to the Mint Board for justice.||[The conjectural date 1711 is proposed by Craig in his calendar of the papers (PRO Mint 19/6, no. 97) without any explanation or supporting evidence. Craig usually had sound reasons for his conjectures, but was not always very forthcoming about them.] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6626 | MINT00076 | Application to appoint a new smith | 1 | 38 | 254 | 7 August 1711 | Printed in NC, 5: 186-7.||The last smith [Thomas Sylvester] was paid 50 p.a., plus piece work. At Newton's request (following differences with the smith), this salary was stopped when the post became vacant [through Sylvester's death, c. December 1710], pending formulation of a new contract. Newton now requests funding for a new salary with confirmation of his power of dismissal. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6627 | MINT00077 | Further holograph draft of MINT00076 (Mint 19/1/223) | 1 | 38 | 251 | 7 August 1711 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6628 | MINT00078 | Proposal for 35 p.a. for Francis Beresford to be taken on as apprentice engraver for six years to supply the place of [Gabriel] le Clerk, whose post has been vacant for some years | 1 | 38 | 290 | 12 September 1711 | Signed by [warden] Craven Peyton and Newton. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6631 | MINT00079 | Identical proposal to take on Beresford as apprentice | 1 | 38 | 680 | 16 June 1712 | On reverse: Treasurer's warrant authorising this, dated 10 July 1712.||Printed in NC, 5: 307-8 (Mint's letter) and 313-4 (Treasurer's warrant). Copy of the letter in PRO, MINT 1/8, p. 96 and copies of the warrant in PRO, Mint 1/8, pp. 96-7 and BL Additional Ms. 18,757, no. 43.||Signed by the Mint Board. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6632 | MINT00080 | Petition to succeed his late brother Daniel as assay master, having been his assistant for fifteen years | 215 | 38 | 189 | Before 29 January 1713 | On the same sheet: referral by Treasury to Mint, dated 31 January 1712/3. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6635 | MINT00081 | Three partial holograph drafts of a letter reporting the tests of Charles Brattell and Catesby Oadham for the post of assay master (two other candidates not having appeared): Brattell is judged the better candidate | 1 | 38 | 452 | c. 10 April 1713 | Final version in Longleat House, Portland Papers, IX, f.193 (dated 10 April 1713 and printed in NC, 5: 403-4 with the erroneous reference Mint 19/1/193). Another draft at MINT00606 (Mint 19/2/431).||On the same side, also in Newton's hand: a series of calculations, notes on the value of Italian coins, and the end of a sentence about Tertullian and Cyprian. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6636 | MINT00082 | Appeal against the Mint's verdict rejecting his application for the post of assay master, specifically accusing Newton of favouritism | 216 | 38 | 448 | April to August 1713 | [See Craig, NATM, 87 and Westfall, 755-6 for accounts of this dispute.] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6637 | MINT00083 | Another clerical copy of MINT00082 (Mint 19/1/94) | 1 | 38 | 428 | April to August 1713 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6638 | MINT00084 | Summarises the assay master's duties and defends the Mint's decision in favour of Charles Brattell over Catesby Oadham for the post | 1 | 38 | 923 | August 1713 | Draft of the much shorter final version, dated 26 August 1713, in T. 1/163.50, MINT00980 (printed in NC, 6: 25). See also Craig, NATM, 86-7. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6639 | MINT00085 | 'The state of the Mint in relation to the Queens Assay Master' | 1 | 38 | 1,259 | c. August 1713 | Considerably more discursive holograph draft of MINT00084 (Mint 19/1/90). Followed by a deleted paragraph (also in Newton's hand) relating to the calculus controversy. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6640 | MINT00086 | Further holograph draft on the examinations of Oadham and Brattell | 1 | 38 | 493 | c. August 1713 | Accuses Oadham of having previously 'neglected his master's business' in favour of his own commercial projects and criticises his insolent manner, 'not to be borne in an Assaymaster'. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6642 | MINT00087 | Another holograph memorandum attacking Oadham as a projector | 1 | 38 | 2,816 | c. August 1713 | None of the bullion merchants supporting his claim is of any significance: only six of his backers have ever sent gold to the Mint, and that on a small scale.||Preceded by a draft from the Principia on Kepler's second law. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6643 | MINT00088 | Variant holograph draft of MINT00087 (Mint 19/1/98-9) | 1 | 38 | 1,900 | c. August 1713 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6644 | MINT00089 | Fragmentary holograph draft of MINT00087 (Mint 19/1/98-9), with fragmentary notes on mathematics, metaphysics and Egyptian history | 1 | 38 | 627 | c. August 1713 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6646 | MINT00090 | Copies of documents relating to the Mint Board's oaths of secrecy | 1 | 38 | 194 | 30 March 1715 | a) Holograph copy of the oath not to reveal the method of rounding and edging coin [see MINT00015 (Mint 19/1/62)].||b) Certificate in clerical hand that this has been taken by Sir Richard Sandford [warden from 28 December 1714] and Martin Bladen [comptroller from 20 December 1714]. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6647 | MINT00091 | Holograph list of proposed amendments to the Mint indenture, including an additional remedy of one grain for every ten quarter-guineas | 1 | 38 | 246 | Before 6 May 1718 | [The indenture of 6 May 1718 in fact went slightly further, increasing the remedy to one grain for every eight quarter-guineas: see Challis, History, 750.] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6648 | MINT00092 | Partial variant holograph draft of MINT00091 (Mint 19/1/420) | 1 | 38 | 155 | Before 6 May 1718 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6649 | MINT00093 | Certificate of Newton's securities given [somewhat belatedly] on 12 May 1719 subsequent to his re-appointment as master [on 1 January 1715]: 2,000 from Newton himself, 1,000 from Francis Hall and 1,000 from John Francis Fauquier | 1 | 38 | 189 | 11 March 1719/20 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6652 | MINT00094 | As the clerks' salaries have not changed in the last sixty years, recommends a 25 increase | 1 | 38 | 399 | 26 June 1722 | Final version, signed by Newton and Martin Bladen, in T. 1/239.83, MINT01014 (printed in NC, 7: 202-3). Another draft by Newton in Bodleian Library, New College MS. 361, II, f.39v.||On the same sheet: holograph drafts of MINT00095 (Mint 19/1/224) and MINT00096 (Mint 19/1/151). On reverse: holograph draft reference for Newton's former cook, Mary Anderson.||[This was accepted: see the warrant in Mint 1/8.134 and T. 52/32.160-61.] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6653 | MINT00095 | Recommends the appointment of Robert Lowe as porter at 20 p.a. by a constitution instead of by a patent, which would cost the appointee too much | 1 | 38 | 131 | 26 June 1722 | Printed in NC, 7: 202 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6654 | MINT00096 | Proposes 30 p.a. for senior engraver Croker to maintain [Francis] Beresford, who has completed his apprenticeship [see MINT00078 (Mint 19/1/165) and MINT00079 (Mint 19/1/155-6)] | 1 | 38 | 105 | 26 June 1722 | Printed in NC, 7: 203-4. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6656 | MINT00097 | 'To Sr. Isaac Newton Master and Worker of his Maj. Mint in ye Tower/ The Humble Memorial of Sam: Bull 2d. Engraver &c' | 1 | 38 | 513 | 14 September 1722 | Complains that promised pay increases have not materialised, and that after Bull and Gabriel le Clerk were promoted to second and third engraver respectively at 80 p.a. each [see MINT00063 (Mint 19/1/170-71)], le Clerk received this salary 'for about 7 years [...] tho he did not act or work for the Mint during that whole Time', so that all the labour fell to Bull. After 26 years' service Bull is now worse off than when he first joined the Mint.||Printed in NC, 7: 210-12. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6658 | MINT00098 | Robert Lowe (porter) and James Whitacre (clerk and assayer's fireman) to Treasury | 1 | 38 | 304 | After 1724 | Lowe complains that 25 p.a. is not adequate even for a single person, Whitaker that his work exposes him 'to great danger and hasard in his health and life' and that he had to stand 300 security for the post.||[Dating follows Craig's calendar (PRO, Mint 19/6), no. 65.] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6659 | MINT00099 | Proposes John Rollos, recently appointed royal engraver, to replace the late Samuel Bull as second engraver in the Mint | 1 | 38 | 208 | Autumn 1726 | Printed in NC, 7: 351. See the Treasury's (implicit) request for such a recommendation, 16 August 1726, NC, 7: 350-51. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6660 | MINT00100 | 'To the Honourable Sir Isaac Newton Master and Worker of his Majestys Mint. The Petition of Iohn Trapps Monyer' | 14 | 38 | 440 | c. 1700 | Having recently completed his apprenticeship as both moneyer and smith, Trapps complains that the Company of Moneyers refuse to pay him more than labourer's wages of two shillings a day for smith's work, and further claim it is customary for new moneyers not to receive a share in the Company's profits for the first month after the end of their apprenticeship. According to C.E. Challis, 'Mint Officials and Moneyers of the Stuart Period', British Numismatic Journal 59 (1989), p. 157-197, Trapps had been employed by the Mint as a moneyer from 1692/3 to c. 1700 (p. 190). His name returns in the Mint Accounts for 1 January 1714/5 to 31 December 1715 where he is listed as a smith. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6661 | MINT00101 | Draft contract between master and melter, setting out the melter's duties, responsibilities, salary and commission | 14 | 38 | 235 | ca. 1696-99 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6662 | MINT00102 | 'The Names of the Corporation of Moniers' | 14 | 38 | 66 | c. 1698 | Lists the provost, fourteen moneyers and nine apprentices. C.E. Challis, 'Mint Officials and Moneyers of the Stuart Period', British Numismatic Journal 59 (1989), p. 157-197, dates the list to c. 1698. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6663 | MINT00103 | Copy of royal warrant authorising wardens to pay Mint officers' extraordinary expenses arising from meetings relating to recoinage | 14 | 38 | 285 | 13 December 1662 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6664 | MINT00104 | Copy of royal warrant authorising payment by the Treasury of coinage expenses despite the expiry of the Coinage Act | 14 | 38 | 377 | 16 November 1681 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6665 | MINT00105 | Accounts of incidental expenditure 5 November 1688 to 30 September 1689 | 38 | 492 | After 30 September 1689 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||||
6667 | MINT00106 | Personal expenses of previous warden Benjamin Overton for the year ending 6 February 1690 [= 1691] for a warrant to deal with clippers and for being made a J.P. for Middlesex, Westminster, Essex, Surrey, Sussex, Kent and Hertford, with a memorandum in Newton's hand | 62 | 38 | 72 | 1691 or later, with additions by Newton from after 13 April 1696 | Printed in NC, 4: 217 (which follows Craig's misdating of 1696).||[Craig, NATM, 20, takes these to be Newton's own accounts and the date 1690 to be a slip for 1696, but the document reads unequivocally '6th of ffebr 1689 to the 6th ffebr 1690'. The suggestion that the accounts are Overton's is taken from Westfall, 570, n.65.] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6668 | MINT00107 | Holograph accounts for master's expenditure to September 1688, September 1689 and March 1691 | 1 | 38 | 147 | After 13 April 1696 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6669 | MINT00108 | 'The Acct of ye Tooles delivered to ye Tower May: ye: 25: 1696' | 1 | 38 | 196 | 25 May 1696 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6670 | MINT00109 | Accounts relating to the recoinage | 1 | 38 | 418 | c. July 1696 | Headed: 'An Account of the Charges in Receiuing into the Mint, Refining, Melting, Coyning and Paying into the Receipt of his Majesty's Exchecquer One Thousand Seven hundred Sixty Nine Ingotts of Silver Melted Down from the Clipt Monies that was found in the said Receipt at the taking the Twelfth genrll Remaine on the 24 day of Iune Last past'. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6671 | MINT00110 | Holograph drafts of MINT00109 (Mint 19/2/282) and of a similar account for 1,223 ingots coined from the Eleventh General Remain of 10 June 1696 | 1 | 38 | 2,639 | c. July 1696 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6672 | MINT00111 | Three further clerical drafts of MINT00109 (Mint 19/2/282), each signed by Newton | 1 | 38 | 1,158 | c. July 1696. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6673 | MINT00112 | Petition to Treasury: 'The humble Representation of the Provost & Fellowes of the Corporation of Monyers belonging to his Majties Mint in the Tower of London' | 1 | 38 | 269 | 1698 | Claim for expenses of 'Eight Thousand Pounds and Upwards' incurred during the recoinage. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6674 | MINT00113 | Assessment of moneyers' bills for equipping country mints and other expenses, recommending several reductions in the total submitted | 1 | 38 | 205 | 8 April 1699 | Printed in NC, 4: 310. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6675 | MINT00114 | Much longer draft from which MINT00113 (Mint 19/1/214) appears to have been distilled | 1 | 38 | 493 | Early April 1699 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6676 | MINT00115 | Copy of a bill from the engineers and moneyers to the Treasury for machines totalling 640 | 1 | 38 | 180 | c. 1699 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6677 | MINT00116 | 'A List or Schedule of the Vouchers of the Account of Isaac Newton Esqr late Warden of his Majestie's Mint in the Tower' | 1 | 38 | 684 | 12 June 1700 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6678 | MINT00117 | Holograph draft of Mint accounts 1688-1700 | 1 | 38 | 475 | After 29 September (Michaelmas) 1700 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6679 | MINT00118 | Queries about the uses to which surplus funds in the Mint's hands may be put | 1 | 38 | 499 | c. 1702? | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6680 | MINT00119 | Expenses on Queen Anne Coronation medals [the last batch of which was ordered on 2 June 1702] amount to 2,485.18s.3 1/2 d | 1 | 38 | 288 | After 2 June 1702 | Printed in NC, 7: 424-5. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6683 | MINT00120 | Two draft reminders that 2,485.18s.3 1/2 d. is owed him in expenses for Queen Anne Coronation medals | 1 | 38 | 749 | After 2 June 1702 | Also 38 draft monograms 'A' and 'AR' [Anna Regina].||Drafts of T. 1/79.56, MINT00935 and MINT00936.||Suggests the balance left in his hands by [previous master] Neale might go some way to cover this, depending on what other costs the Treasury expects him to meet out of it. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6685 | MINT00121 | Further holograph draft reminder of MINT00119 (Mint 19/3/336, 338), adding that 'I am now to make up my Accompts for the year ending this Christmas' | 1 | 38 | 234 | Late 1702 | On 334(b): holograph draft acknowledgment, dated 24 September 1713, of receipt from Newton of 250 medals.||[See CTB, 17, part 1 (1702): 428 for the Treasury order to pay Newton precisely this sum from the Civil List (23 December 1702).] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6686 | MINT00122 | Holograph notes on expenditure in 1687-1701, 1705 and 1706 | 1 | 38 | 336 | Not before 1707 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6689 | MINT00123 | Letter from the Mint Board to The Lord High Treasurer regarding the state of the house of the surveyor of meltings | 66 | 38 | 188 | July 1707 | Printed in NC, 4: 496-7.||Signed by the Mint Board.||The 1705 Coinage Act gave the Mint an extra 500 p.a. for salaries, maintenance and repairs, of which 400 has been allocated to the moneyers: propose that the remaining 100 should for the next two years go on building a new house. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6690 | MINT00124 | Bill to Newton from Charles Holt, brazier | 1 | 38 | 66 | 22 March 1711/12 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6691 | MINT00125 | 'An Account of the Medals of fine gold made upon the Peace 1713': holograph statement of expenses for 812 medals, with figures for their distribution 16 July to 8 August 1713 | 1 | 38 | 516 | 1714 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6692 | MINT00126 | Holograph notes of distribution figures as stated in MINT00125 (Mint 19/3/321-2) | 1 | 38 | 123 | Between 8 and 24 August 1713 | On reverse: fragmentary holograph note of salaries and bills paid by warden Craven Peyton. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6693 | MINT00127 | Further holograph draft of MINT00125 (Mint 19/3/321-2) with variant distribution figures | 1 | 38 | 379 | Between 8 and 24 August 1713 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6694 | MINT00128 | Another holograph draft of MINT00127 (Mint 19/3/328) | 1 | 38 | 217 | Between 8 and 24 August 1713 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6695 | MINT00129 | Returns an account in which the annual total of 3,500 allowed under the Coinage Acts of 1666 and 1705 for Mint expenditure on fees, salaries, maintenance, repair and equipment has been exceeded | 217 | 38 | 154 | 1714 | [See Craig, NATM, 87-9 and Westfall, 757-8 on this document and Newton's response to it in the next five entries.] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6696 | MINT00130 | 'Coppy of the Paper delivered to Mr Auditor ffoley relating to the Accompts of the Mint with respect to the 3500.- per annum allowed by Parliament' | 1 | 38 | 915 | 1714 | Counting the warden's incidental expenses, outgoings in 1712 exceeded the statutory limit (3,500) by 99.9s., and the then auditor [Edward] Harley refused to pass them until a bricklayer's bill for 130 was deducted [see MINT00129 (Mint 19/1/332)]. Newton objects that the warden's incidental expenses had never before been counted within this limit, and sets out his own distinction between regular expenses to which the limit should apply and extraordinary ones to which it should not. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6697 | MINT00131 | Memorandum by Newton specifying the uses to which the money allocated to the Mint by Parliament can be put, breaking it down into specific sums for specific purposes, and stating which Mint officers are responsible for allocating which funds | 1 | 38 | 1,349 | 1714 | Where any doubt arises about the interpretation of these categories, established custom should have the force of law so long as it cannot be shown to be in breach of an actual statute. Includes a résumé of the master's accounts for 1712 and justification of certain extraordinary expenses. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6698 | MINT00132 | Holograph draft of MINT00131 (Mint 19/1/334-5) | 1 | 38 | 779 | 1714 | With the addition that of the 500 increase awarded in 1705, 400 was earmarked for the moneyers [see MINT00074 (Mint 19/1/206)], and the remaining 100, which was supposed to cover pay increases for the clerks, was urgently needed to repair Mint buildings that were on the point of collapse [see MINT00123 (Mint 19/2/497)]. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6699 | MINT00133 | Another holograph draft of MINT00131 (Mint 19/1/334-5) | 1 | 38 | 585 | 1714 | Further argues that major incidental expenses such as 160 for new trial plates and 120 for the last pyx trial should not be reckoned within the Mint's budget limit, and warning that the press room is on the brink of collapse, and there will be no money to rebuild it as things stand. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6700 | MINT00134 | Further holograph drafts of MINT00131 (Mint 19/1/334-5) with minor variations | 1 | 38 | 3,482 | 1714 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6701 | MINT00135 | Requests 1,230 for expenses on George I's Coronation medal | 1 | 38 | 211 | c. 25 September 1714 | Draft of Mint 1/8.102, MINT01187 (dated 25 September 1714 and printed in NC, 6: 181). | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6702 | MINT00136 | Holograph table of receipts and expenditure for each year 1711-15, preceded by a copy of the last few words of MINT00140 (Mint 19/1/325) | 1 | 38 | 172 | Ca. February 1715 [= 1716] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6703 | MINT00137 | Detailed breakdown of Mint income and expenditure for each year 1713-15, with explanatory notes on the reverse | 1 | 38 | 366 | Ca. February 1715 [= 1716] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6704 | MINT00138 | Two copies of a draft of MINT00137 (Mint 19/1/330) | 1 | 38 | 657 | Ca. February 1715 [= 1716] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6705 | MINT00139 | Less detailed holograph drafts of MINT00137 (Mint 19/1/330) | 1 | 38 | 1,157 | Ca. February 1715 [= 1716] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6708 | MINT00140 | Request for an increase in Mint funding | 1 | 38 | 299 | 9 February 1715 [= 1716] | In the three years 1713-15, Mint income lagged seriously behind expenditure. Coinage has increased since peace, and if the increase continues the deficit will rise to 5,000 or 6,000 p.a. The deficit has hitherto been financed from surpluses amassed during the war when little money was coined, but the remaining surplus is now under 1,000. In renewing the Coinage Act, which is about to expire, the Commons should be encouraged to increase coinage duty by 50 (from 10s. to 15s. a ton on wine and from 20s. to 30s. a ton on brandy).||Signed by [warden] Richard Sandford.||Variant draft of PRO, Mint 1/7, p. 71 (of the same date, unsigned and printed in NC, 6: 276-7). | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6710 | MINT00141 | Variant draft of MINT00140 (Mint 19/1/325), with a table of income and expenditure over five years (1711-15) | 1 | 38 | 362 | 7 February 1715/6 | Signed by Newton and [warden] Richard Sandford.||Table of income and expenditure printed in NC, 6: 278. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6711 | MINT00142 | Further drafts of MINT00140 (Mint 19/1/325) | 1 | 38 | 907 | Ca. February 1715/6 | Mint 19/1/316 is dated 7 February 1715 [= 1716]. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6712 | MINT00143 | Rough partial holograph draft of MINT00140 (Mint 19/1/325) | 1 | 38 | 326 | Ca. February 1715 [= 1716] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6713 | MINT00144 | Statement of expenses for the pyx trial of 3 August 1724 | 14 | 38 | 275 | After 3 August 1724 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6714 | MINT00145 | Receipt for payments totalling 49.5s.6d. made by Newton to various Mint employees between 15 January 1717 [= 1718] and 14 January 1724 [= 1725] in respect of copper coinage | 1 | 38 | 54 | Early 1725 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6715 | MINT00146 | Holograph list of outgoings with detailed justification of the headings under which they have been entered in the accounts | 1 | 38 | 565 | 1714 | [This may well relate to the row in 1714 about Newton's accounts: see MINT00129 - MINT00134 above, or at least to an attempt to avoid a repetition of it.] The figures listed agree with the Warden's Accounts for the year ending December 1712. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6716 | MINT00147 | Holograph notes on building expenses | 1 | 38 | 189 | ca. 1711 (?) | On same sheet: holograph list of names, and the menu for a dinner [for the jury, subsequent to an unspecified pyx trial]. The names are grouped under 'E[arl of] Oxford' and 'L[or]d Bolingbroke', and might refer to the disputes between Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751) and Robert Harley (1661-1724; from 23 May 1711 Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer). | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6717 | MINT00148 | Statement of expenses for an unspecified pyx trial | 14 | 38 | 128 | 3 August 1699 | Most likely related to the Trial of the Pyx of 3 August 1699; see MINT00129 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6719 | MINT00149 | Master's and wardens' accounts 1699-1727 | 1 | 38 | 49,611 | 1699-1727 | Throughout, the Master's accounts (Newton's in every case) for each financial period alternate with those of the Warden: successively John Stanley, Craven Peyton, Richard Sandford, William Thompson and Walter Cary. Newton's last account, for 1726, was drawn up by Conduitt.||[These constitute the whole volume PRO, Mint 19/4, which is unpaginated. Folio numbers have been included as deemed appropriate] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6720 | MINT00150 | Clerical copies of various documents (juries' verdicts, officers' receipts, assorted memoranda) relating to the trial plates of 1605 and 1660 | 68 | 38 | 1,540 | After 13 April 1696 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6721 | MINT00151 | Letter covering a copy of a Council order for a pyx trial, dated 11 June 1696 | 70 | 38 | 245 | 30 June 1696 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6723 | MINT00152 | 'An Account of the Scotch money' | 1 | 38 | 856 | 1697 | Table of the fineness, weight and value of Scottish coins of various dates, with notes on the conversion rates of Scottish and English weights and currency, and the importance of harmonising the two systems (by making the Scots conform to the English).||[Note on dating: includes the remark 'now (viz anno 1697)'.] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6724 | MINT00153 | Holograph drafts of MINT00152 (Mint 19/3/2-3) | 1 | 38 | 2,433 | 1697 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6725 | MINT00154 | 'An Account of the weight & fineness of several pieces of Scotch money': holograph notes for MINT00152 (Mint 19/3/2-3) | 1 | 38 | 334 | 1697 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6726 | MINT00155 | Holograph list of weights and assays of 23 Scottish coins 1665-95 | 1 | 38 | 257 | 1697 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6727 | MINT00156 | Note further to the pyx trial of that date of the denominations and weights of the pyx coins in the London Mint and each country mint | 1 | 38 | 386 | 15 July 1697 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6728 | MINT00157 | Statement further to the pyx trial of that date | 1 | 38 | 147 | 3 August 1699 | Details the amount coined in the Tower from 16 July 1697 to 3 August 1699, and in each country mint from 24 June 1697 to its closure [between April and September 1698], and the amount placed in the pyx in each case. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6729 | MINT00158 | Holograph note on the trial of gold coin from London and silver coin from various mints on 3 August 1699. | 1 | 38 | 132 | After 3 August 1699 | Printed in NC, 4: 313-14. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6732 | MINT00159 | 'Directions about the Triall of the monies of Gold & Silver in the Pix' | 1 | 38 | 1,167 | July 1701? | Detailed account of the formal procedure for initiating and conducting a pyx trial.||Printed in NC, 4: 371-3 and further discussed in NC7: 422.||[Note on dating: NC, 4: 373, n.2 suggests Newton wrote this draft in preparation for his first pyx trial as master on 6 August 1701. NC, 7: 422, n. 1, however, suggests that it might equally well have been drawn up with reference to discussions in 1710 about Edinburgh pyx trials, or for the benefit of Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, after he became Lord Treasurer in March 1711. Numerous references in the document to 'the King', however, make the latter two suggestions improbable, since the monarch at the time was Anne. See also Westfall, 608, who agrees with the 1701 dating.] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6733 | MINT00160 | Drafts of MINT00159 (Mint 19/1/228-9) | 1 | 38 | 6,103 | July 1701? | At the bottom of Mint 19/1/265 are holograph notes on Dutch, German and Swedish coins and some calculations, and on the reverse holograph notes on Italian coins. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6734 | MINT00161 | Clerical hand: notes for MINT00159 (Mint 19/1/228-9), followed by a draft of it in Newton's hand | 68 | 38 | 557 | July 1701? | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6735 | MINT00162 | Notes for MINT00159 (Mint 19/1/228-9) | 1 | 38 | 2,411 | July 1701? | Mint 19/1/253 is in a clerical hand; the others are holograph. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6737 | MINT00163 | Covering letter for MINT00159 (Mint 19/1/228-9) | 1 | 38 | 265 | July 1701? | Newton's letter printed in NC, 7: 421-2.||On reverse: holograph notes on the value and weight of gold guineas and silver shillings, with several related calculations. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6738 | MINT00164 | Warrant convening the pyx jury for 6 August 1701 | 1 | 38 | 159 | 29 July 1701 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6740 | MINT00165 | Memorandum by Newton: 'A Memoriall concerning the Trial of the monies in ye Pix by a Iury before the King or Lords of ye Council and Officers of the Mint' | 1 | 38 | 1,285 | After 6 August 1701? | A long account of pyx trial procedure, stressing that Mint officers should always be present, that the jury, furnished by the Goldsmiths' Company, is one 'of Enquiry not of Iudgement', and that in the event of disputes the Mint officers have a right to demand a renewal of the trial.||[In tone and content, this document is strikingly similar to those complaining about the pyx trial of 21 August 1710 (MINT00173 - MINT00180 below), but repeated reference to 'the King' rules out its having been produced during Anne's reign. Westfall (p. 609) suggests that it relates to a dispute with the goldsmiths at the trial of 6 August 1701.] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6741 | MINT00166 | Three holograph drafts of MINT00165 (Mint 19/1/307-8) | 1 | 38 | 5,404 | After 6 August 1701? | Mint 19/1/264 has also been used for mathematical diagrams and calculations. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6742 | MINT00167 | 'The manner of making the standard Trial pieces' | 1 | 38 | 464 | 1707 | Details the officers whose presence is needed, the formal procedure and the distribution of the pieces once made. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6743 | MINT00168 | Holograph drafts of MINT00167 (Mint 19/1/290) | 1 | 38 | 2,587 | 1707 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6744 | MINT00169 | Council has ordered trial plates to be made and sent to London and Edinburgh | 1 | 38 | 629 | 1707 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6745 | MINT00170 | Order to convene a jury for the forthcoming pyx trial [28 July 1707] | 1 | 38 | 180 | June 1707 | Printed in NC, 4: 495-6. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6746 | MINT00171 | Order to send officers to the London Mint for a pyx trial on Monday 28 July, to be attended also by officers from York, Exeter, Bristol, Chester and Newcastle | 1 | 38 | 355 | c. June 1707 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6747 | MINT00172 | Holograph note, further to the pyx trial of that date, on the amount coined and pyxed in the Tower from 7 August 1701 to 28 July 1707 | 1 | 38 | 102 | 28 July 1707 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6752 | MINT00173 | Memorandum by Newton: 'Of the assaying of Gold and Silver, the making of indented Triall-pieces and trying the moneys in the Pix' | 1 | 38 | 1,410 | After 21 August 1710 | On reverse: a mathematical problem.||Printed in NC, 5: 84-90 with additions from the drafts listed at MINT00174 below.||Stresses the importance of observing consistent methods in these operations, and describes procedures for ensuring maximum accuracy. It can happen that trial plates are made finer than standard gold coin and consequently the coin is found deficient, as happened at the last trial [21 August 1710, though the deficiency noted did not exceed the remedy and the coin was passed]. The master must have authority to compensate for faulty trial plates, either by having new ones made or by adjusting the refinement of the coinage accordingly. The trial plates of 1707 and 1688 are both above standard: that of 1660 is standard.||Three (rhetorical) queries as to whether the pyx jury should (a) report any discrepancy between the assay and the trial piece; (b) submit disputed results to the deliberation of the Queen and Council, and (c) undertake a second test in the event of dubious results, especially if asked to do so by the Mint officers.||[See Mint Annual Report (1873), 39 (on the true fineness of the plates complained of by Newton); also Craig, NATM, 77-8 and Westfall, 610.] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6754 | MINT00174 | Eight variant holograph drafts of MINT00173 (Mint 19/1/109) | 1 | 38 | 15,231 | After 21 August 1710 | Mint 19/1/250 adds a passage deploring the unequal coining that was normal when Newton first came to the Mint, but which has since been largely rectified.||Mint 19/1/251 and Mint 19/1/291 recommend the use of antimony as the best way of refining gold, 'But the Refiners of this city know not how to Refine gold by Antimony'. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6755 | MINT00175 | Holograph queries about standards of trial plates | 1 | 38 | 307 | After 21 August 1710 | Refiners have recently found ways of refining gold and silver to above 24 carats and 12 ounces respectively, which can result in over-refined trial plates making perfectly good coinage appear sub-standard. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6756 | MINT00176 | Holograph drafts of MINT00175 (Mint 19/1/274) | 1 | 38 | 681 | After 21 August 1710 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6757 | MINT00177 | Holograph draft memorandum on methods of assaying gold and silver by refinement, such as should be used in assessing trial pieces | 1 | 38 | 509 | Probably after 21 August 1710 | These were not used in assessing the 1707 trial piece. Objects further that trial pieces should be made only by royal order, whereas the 1707 one was made merely on the authority of the Treasurer's warrant. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6759 | MINT00178 | Two holograph drafts, written as from the Goldsmiths' Company and bullion suppliers, complaining of the excessive fineness of the 1707 trial plate | 1 | 38 | 692 | After 21 August 1710 | Followed by a holograph draft fragment of MINT00173 (Mint 19/1/109).||[See Westfall, 611-12. This report seems never to have been submitted, but Newton did finally succeed in restoring the use of the pre-1707 trial plates in his indenture of 1718.] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6762 | MINT00179 | Complaint about trial plates | 1 | 38 | 304 | Between 21 August 1710 and 28 March 1711 | Printed in NC, 5: 82-3.||The present trial plate is about a quarter of a grain finer than the last, which was itself too fine. Proposes that uniform standards for valuing silver and gold should apply throughout Great Britain to eliminate such anomalies.||[Note on dating: clearly post-dates the pyx trial of 21 August 1710, and the Treasury was only in commission until 28 March 1711: see NC, 5: 83, n.1. NC gives 'c. 31 December 1710' but describes its own suggestion as arbitrary.] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6763 | MINT00180 | Holograph draft of MINT00179 (Mint 19/1/275) | 1 | 38 | 429 | Between 21 August 1710 and 28 March 1711 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6764 | MINT00181 | Holograph draft of a clause requiring the officers of the York, Bristol, Exeter, Chester and Newcastle assay halls to attend Goldsmiths' Hall in London on request, in the event of their going two years without a pyx trial | 1 | 38 | 117 | After 1712? | [Date taken from Craig's calendar (PRO, Mint, 19/6), no. 787.] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6766 | MINT00182 | Treasury minute. Report of discussions concerning coinage offences | 1 | 38 | 165 | 27 February 1712 [= 1713] | Fuller version, bearing the same date, in T. 29/20.45, MINT01079 (printed in NC, 5: 381-2 and CTB, 27, part 2 (1713):14).||Peyton [warden] reports that half the silver brought to the Mint is suspected to be melted coin. Mint officers report that some new coins are being clipped and re-edged. Newton reports that wear and unlawful diminishing have reduced the weight of coins, especially sixpences. Treasurer orders the Mint to determine a reasonable level of loss by wear and a means of preventing the counterfeiting of coppers. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6767 | MINT00184 | Result of pyx trial held 7 August 1713 on the gold trial plates of 19 October 1660, 15 October 1688 and 23 June 1707, which were all found standard | 14 | 38 | 120 | After 7 August 1713 | [Compare MINT00173 (Mint 19/1/109).] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6768 | MINT00185 | Result of pyx trial held 29 August 1716: coins found satisfactory | 14 | 38 | 1,129 | After 29 August 1716 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6769 | MINT00186 | Conveys an order from the King to calculate the value of other English gold coins in proportion to the 21s. guinea, preparatory to the devaluation of the guinea from 21s.6d | 218 | 38 | 160 | 21 December 1717 | Printed in NC, 6: 425-6; see MINT00322 and MINT00332 - MINT00336. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6770 | MINT00187 | Report on pyx trial of copper coins, finding them satisfactory | 219 | 38 | 205 | 27 October 1722 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6772 | MINT00188 | Requests a pyx trial for the coming summer, it being three years since the last one | 1 | 38 | 74 | 18 June 1724 | Printed in NC, 7: 287 (with the erroneous reference Mint 19/2/233).||[The Treasury accordingly ordered a pyx trial for 3 August 1724: PRO, T27/24, p. 13.] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6773 | MINT00189 | Application to fix a date for a pyx trial of copper money | 1 | 38 | 73 | 4 October 1725 | Printed in NC, 7: 334 (with the erroneous reference Mint 19/3/316). | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6774 | MINT00190 | Holograph notes on loss of weight of old hammered coin since the reign of Edward VI | 1 | 38 | 121 | After 13 April 1696 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6775 | MINT00191 | Holograph notes on the proportion of coins of various reigns found in a sample of 101 | 1 | 38 | 307 | After 13 April 1696 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6776 | MINT00192 | Holograph note on the weight of samples of copper coins | 1 | 38 | 186 | ca. 1713 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6777 | MINT00193 | Holograph notes on the weight of individual copper coins | 1 | 38 | 51 | ca. 1713 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6778 | MINT00194 | Notes on the English-Dutch exchange rate | 1 | 38 | 80 | June 1698 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6781 | MINT00195 | Holograph notes on the denominations, fineness and weight of various foreign coins, with a letter to Catherine Barton dated 5 August 1700 on the reverse | 1 | 38 | 1,030 | 1700 | On reverse of a holograph letter dated 5 August 1700 from Newton to Catherine Barton [his half-niece], wishing her well with her recovery from smallpox.||The letter to Barton is very well represented in print, appearing in David Brewster, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton (2 vols., Edinburgh, 1855), 2: 213, in Louis Trenchard More, Isaac Newton (New York and London, 1934), 470-1, in Craig, NATM, 27, in NC, 4: 349-50, and in Westfall, 595. It does not seem to have occurred to any of the authors or editors of these works that the fact that Newton used the same sheet for notes on coinage rather suggests he never sent the letter (though it is of course possible he sent another copy).||The manuscript is badly damaged and all the printed versions contain a number of conjectural readings. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6783 | MINT00196 | Brief letter concerning the 'perusal' and possible purchase, apparently on Newton's behalf, of some Italian coins from an unspecified 'gentleman' | 220 | 38 | 1,041 | 19 June [presumably before 1705, since it is addressed to 'Isaac Newton Esq.' (not 'Sir Isaac') | On reverse (written over the address): holograph notes on Italian coins.||Printed in NC, 7: 377. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6784 | MINT00197 | Report on the assay and valuation of 41 Russian kopecks | 221 | 38 | 128 | 1711 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6786 | MINT00198 | Report on Dunkirk coinage | 1 | 38 | 195 | 1712 | Headed 'An Acct of ye Several Species of Money sent from Dunkirk To Mr Ashb Frowd Controwler of ye forain offices London wt ye number of Livers [sic] and Sols Each Contains and ye Price of ye whol in English mony'.||On reverse: note by Frowd dated November 1712. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6787 | MINT00199 | Holograph list of subjects for investigation: the current rate of exchange in Dunkirk, the names and values of new French coins, and in which Mint Dunkirk currency is coined | 1 | 38 | 86 | 1713? | [Probably connected with the increased English presence in Dunkirk following the Peace of Utrecht (April 1713).] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6788 | MINT00200 | Holograph memorandum on the coins current in Dunkirk and how to establish the rate of exchange | 1 | 38 | 749 | 1713? | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6789 | MINT00201 | Table of the current and intrinsic values of French coins | 1 | 38 | 271 | 1713? | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6790 | MINT00202 | Table of the current and intrinsic values of Dutch coins | 1 | 38 | 232 | 1713? | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6791 | MINT00203 | Table of the current and intrinsic values of French and Dutch coins | 1 | 38 | 102 | 1713? | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6792 | MINT00204 | Holograph table comparing Dutch and French coinage, with notes on the value of English money in Dunkirk | 1 | 38 | 837 | 1713? | [This and the preceding entries may well be in response to the Treasury order, dated 3 February 1712/3 (NC, 5: 375), for a report on French and Dutch coinage, but no finished report is known.] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6793 | MINT00205 | Memorandum on Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch and Imperial denominations and on the new French louis d'or of May 1709 | 1 | 38 | 420 | 29 April 1714 | Signed and dated by Newton. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6795 | MINT00206 | On the value of the Imperial dollar and uncertainty as to whether the term refers to the common dollar or the Rix dollar (Reichsthaler), which is worth more | 1 | 38 | 980 | 11 April 1720. | 'Rix' or 'Reichs' is said to mean 'Imperial' [it does], 'But I am not skilled in the German language'. Uncertainty about the current rate of exchange between English and Swedish currency.||Draft of PRO, T1/227, no. 31 (printed in Shaw, 196-7, with the erroneous reference T1/217, and in NC, 7: 88-9). See NC, 7: 87-8 for the Treasury's request for this information. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6796 | MINT00207 | Memorandum on the French-English exchange rate alongside notes on Biblical chronology | 67 | 38 | 1,282 | 1701-1777 | Overwritten with holograph notes on ancient Egyptian religion. On reverse (Mint 19/5/46v-47r): holograph notes on ancient chronology. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6797 | MINT00208 | Extract from [Rice] Vaughan's Coin and Coinage [1615] on French currency changes 1417-23 | 14 | 38 | 118 | After 13 April 1696 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6798 | MINT00209 | Holograph memorandum on French currency changes [of May 1709] | 1 | 38 | 700 | May 1709 or later | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6799 | MINT00210 | 'Experiments and Observations about the value of forreign coyns' [in fact entirely about French ones]: notes on denominations, French Mint practice, and rate of wear of coin | 1 | 38 | 1,032 | 1702 or after | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6800 | MINT00211 | Holograph notes, partly in French and partly in English, with the Latin heading 'Pondera mensuræ et nummi in Gallia' ['Weights, measures and coins in France'] | 1 | 38 | 613 | 1702 or after | Followed by notes on coins from all over Europe. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6801 | MINT00212 | Holograph notes on French coinage | 1 | 38 | 566 | 1702 or after | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6802 | MINT00213 | Holograph fragment on the effect of increasing the value of French coins | 1 | 38 | 50 | 1702 or after | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6803 | MINT00214 | Clerical notes of the weight and assay of various French coins, followed by a holograph list of the values of foreign coins current in Ireland | 68 | 38 | 133 | 1702 or later | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6804 | MINT00215 | Covering letter for a report on Dutch coinage | 69 | 38 | 248 | 1702 or after | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6805 | MINT00216 | Holograph notes on Dutch coinage | 1 | 38 | 1,866 | 1702 or after | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6806 | MINT00217 | Holograph notes on guilders | 1 | 38 | 195 | 1702 or after | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6807 | MINT00218 | Holograph calculations relating to Dutch coinage | 1 | 38 | 592 | c. 1702 | On reverse: extract from a mystical work on Creation. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6808 | MINT00219 | Rough holograph notes on Dutch coinage | 1 | 38 | 172 | 1702 or after | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6809 | MINT00220 | 'Of Spanish Money' | 1 | 38 | 522 | ca. 1702 | An account of Spanish coinage. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6810 | MINT00221 | 'Of Portugal Moneys' | 1 | 38 | 767 | ca. 1702 | An account of Portuguese coinage. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6811 | MINT00222 | Holograph notes for MINT00221 (Mint 19/2/198) | 1 | 38 | 497 | ca. 1702 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6812 | MINT00223 | Holograph notes on Spanish and Portuguese coins | 1 | 38 | 291 | ca. 1702 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6813 | MINT00224 | Holograph notes on design, weight and assay of thirteen mainly German coins 1685-96 | 1 | 38 | 446 | Before 11 April 1720 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6814 | MINT00225 | Holograph notes on Cologne dollars 1666-83 and ducatoons 1668-75 | 1 | 38 | 188 | Before 11 April 1720 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6815 | MINT00226 | Notes on German coins | 67 | 38 | 1,268 | Before 11 April 1720 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6816 | MINT00227 | Detailed holograph account of the design, weight, assay and wear of various Scandinavian and German coins | 1 | 38 | 2,765 | ca. 1702 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6817 | MINT00228 | Notes on the coinage of Danzig and Riga | 1 | 38 | 82 | ca. 1702 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6818 | MINT00229 | Partial holograph draft on Italian coinage | 1 | 38 | 620 | ca. 1702 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6819 | MINT00230 | Another holograph draft of MINT00229 (Mint 19/2/8), on the reverse of part of a printed pamphlet advocating the confiscation of Roman Catholic property | 1 | 38 | 781 | ca. 1702 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6820 | MINT00231 | Holograph notes on Venetian coins | 1 | 38 | 146 | ca. 1702 | Written over a list, in another hand, of the contents of three parcels of coins. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6821 | MINT00232 | Holograph lists of names of coins of various countries in mainland Europe | 1 | 38 | 844 | ca. 1702 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6822 | MINT00233 | Holograph notes on exchange rates in various parts of Europe | 1 | 38 | 1,417 | ca. 1702 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6823 | MINT00234 | Holograph notes on various denominations and exchange rates | 1 | 38 | 316 | ca. 1702 | Written on the back of a fragmentary note in another hand about anti-counterfeiting measures, which is itself overwritten with calculations in Newton's hand. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6824 | MINT00235 | Holograph notes on miscellaneous coins | 1 | 38 | 131 | ca. 1702 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6825 | MINT00236 | Holograph notes on miscellaneous coins 1622-1700 | 1 | 38 | 364 | ca. 1702 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6826 | MINT00237 | Holograph notes on denominations, fineness and weight of various foreign coins | 1 | 38 | 988 | ca. 1702 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6827 | MINT00238 | Holograph notes on eighteen foreign coins 1617-1700 (with two drawings showing the design of a Swedish Rixdollar and an unspecified Danish coin) and the English crown of 1553 | 1 | 38 | 649 | ca. 1702 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6828 | MINT00239 | Holograph notes on coins of most mainland European countries, Scotland and South America | 1 | 38 | 1,854 | ca. 1702 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6829 | MINT00240 | Holograph notes on various European and South American coins | 1 | 38 | 570 | ca. 1702 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6830 | MINT00241 | 'Coyns weighed and assayed': holograph notes on miscellaneous European coins, three sketches showing individual designs, and an addendum dated 20 June 1711 on Mexican coins | 1 | 38 | 2,399 | ca. 1702, addendum 20 June 1711 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6831 | MINT00242 | Holograph notes on Hanoverian, Italian and Swedish coins 1694-7 | 1 | 38 | 117 | ca. 1702 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6832 | MINT00243 | Holograph notes on French, German, Portuguese, Dutch and New England coins | 1 | 38 | 1,387 | ca. 1702 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6833 | MINT00244 | Notes on seven assorted denominations of coin | 1 | 38 | 58 | ca. 1702 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6834 | MINT00245 | Holograph calculations relating to the weight of guineas and louis d'or | 1 | 38 | 58 | 1696-1727 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6835 | MINT00246 | Fragmentary holograph notes on pistoles and moidores, on a cover addressed to Newton in another hand | 222 | 38 | 137 | ca. 1702 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6836 | MINT00247 | Holograph calculations relating to the weight of the moidore | 1 | 38 | 56 | 1696-1727 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6837 | MINT00248 | Fragmentary calculations relating to weights of coins, on the reverse of a cover addressed to Newton as warden | 1 | 38 | 81 | 1696-1727 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6838 | MINT00249 | Holograph summaries of gold-silver ratios and the value of the guinea in nine countries | 1 | 38 | 672 | 1700-1701 | Mint 19/2/68 is on the back of a cover addressed to Newton in another hand in Latin, which has also been used for holograph notes on the diameter of the earth measured in French feet and a list of names of French scientists. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6839 | MINT00250 | Preliminary enquiries and calculations relating to various foreign currencies and exchange rates | 67 | 38 | 763 | 1700-1701 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6840 | MINT00251 | Clerical copies of proclamations by Edward IV, Henry VII and Henry VIII concerning coinage, bullion and exchanges | 223 | 38 | 9,131 | 1696-1727 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6841 | MINT00252 | Holograph copy of accounts submitted by the Navy for 1664-6 | 1 | 38 | 1,274 | After 4 April 1696 | Followed by 'Observations upon ye above stated accompt' (Mint 19/3/460-62), criticising many of the expenses cited as inflated or unnecessary, and by a table (Mint 19/3/462-3) 'copied out of Mr Pepys his papers' of the crew and equipment required on each ship in the Navy under various conditions ('In war at home', 'In war abroad' and 'In time of peace'). | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6842 | MINT00253 | 'A Scheame of the Trade as it as at p[re]sent carried on': clerical copy of 1674 table of import-export trade with France since 1668 | 14 | 38 | 836 | 1674 or later | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6843 | MINT00254 | Holograph copy of the report of the Committee on the Treaty of Commerce with France, dated 28 November 1674 (mainly consisting of a list of imports and exports and their value) | 1 | 38 | 872 | After 13 April 1696 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6844 | MINT00255 | 'An Account of all ye Gold & Silver coyned in his Majesty's Mint wthin ye Tower of London from ye first of October 1599 [...] to this present November 1675' | 1 | 38 | 878 | ca. 1700 | Table of total and yearly average coinage for the periods 1599-1619, 1619-1638, 1638-57 and 1657-1675, showing a steady increase to 1657, the year of the founding of the new East India Company, and a sharp decline thereafter. The Company's excessive export of gold and silver is blamed for inflating the price of bullion to the detriment of the coinage and of trade in land, lead, tin, wool '& other manufactures'. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6845 | MINT00256 | Further holograph copy of MINT00255 (Mint 19/2/271-2) | 1 | 38 | 792 | ca. 1700 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6846 | MINT00257 | Shorter version of MINT00255 (Mint 19/2/271-2) | 14 | 38 | 535 | ca. 1700 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6847 | MINT00258 | Accounts of public income and expenditure for 1687 | 1 | 38 | 209 | After 13 April 1696 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6848 | MINT00259 | Memorandum. 'Proposals touching the Amendment of the English Coins' | 1 | 38 | 1,074 | c. 1700 | Legislation is needed to fix the value of bullion relative to coin and ensure coin is not worth less than bullion (which leads to its being melted down or exported). The crown piece should be on a par with an ounce of bullion, and their common value reduced by annual increments until it reaches 5s. Hammered half-crowns should be reminted with milled edges and a new stamp to distinguish them from originally milled half-crowns, and have a separate value set on them. Lists various practical issues to be considered before implementing these proposals. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6849 | MINT00260 | 'The late Laws about ye Coinage' | 1 | 38 | 1,757 | After 13 April 1696 | Summary of laws on coinage duty and window tax. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6851 | MINT00261 | Untitled holograph draft memorandum on John Pollexfen's A Discourse of Trade, Coyn and Paper Credit [1697, reprinted 1700] | 1 | 38 | 3,419 | 1700? | Though agreeing with Pollexfen that excessive reliance on paper credit, especially for luxury goods, is bad for the economy, Newton maintains that judicious and well-regulated use of credit maintains the money supply, keeps down interest rates and promotes prosperity. Disputes the coinage figures cited by Pollexfen as evidence that the introduction of paper money has undermined the coinage, and produces his own detailed account of coinage history since 1640, blaming reductions on changes in international relations, especially war. The principal development has been the increase of gold in proportion to silver in the coinage. This has nothing to do with paper money, but is due to the fact that in Japan and China silver is valued twice as highly relative to gold as in Europe, resulting in a steady export of silver to them and import of gold from them. The benefits of this trade outweigh the disadvantage of diminishing silver reserves so long as they are not too seriously depleted. Advises against amalgamating the two East India Companies to prevent rivalry, as this would create too powerful a body: instead they should be allocated distinct areas of operation.||[Accounts and analyses of this and the following entries (to MINT00269) in Westfall, 618-19, and Craig, NATM, 40-43. Probably written in response to the re-issue of Pollexfen's Discourse: see Westfall, 618, esp. n. 210. See also H1201 for Newton's copy of a related work by Pollexfen.] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6853 | MINT00262 | Holograph drafts, at various stages of development, of MINT00261 (Mint 19/2/608-11) | 1 | 38 | 8,186 | 1700? | Also on Mint 19/2/627: holograph draft of MINT00534 (Mint 19/1/79). On Mint 19/2/628: convoluted queries relating to payment of the Church, Poor and Highway Rates and Constable's Levies in Twyford [a Lincolnshire village where Newton owned property].||Mint 19/2/628r printed in NC, 4: 319-20. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6855 | MINT00263 | 'On the argument against Paper Credit taken from the course of the Coynage' | 1 | 38 | 2,346 | 1701 | Memorandum constituting part 1 of Newton's 'Observations on Mr P[ollexfen]'s Reply' [to MINT00261 (Mint 19/2/608-11)]. Restates his view that credit, like wine, is a good thing in moderation and should not be totally dismissed simply because it is possible to commit excesses with it.||[The paper by Pollexfen to which this responds does not seem to have survived.] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6856 | MINT00264 | Further draft of MINT00263 (Mint 19/2/612-13, 614-15) | 1 | 38 | 2,448 | 1701 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6857 | MINT00265 | 'On the Quantity of Coyn in the Nation' | 1 | 38 | 1,981 | 1701 | Memorandum constituting part 2 of Newton's 'Observations on Mr P's Reply'. Further detail in support of Newton's analysis of changes in the circulation, with calculations of the amount of counterfeit coin withdrawn during the great recoinage. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6858 | MINT00266 | Further draft of MINT00265 (Mint 19/2/618-20) | 68 | 38 | 2,036 | 1701 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6859 | MINT00267 | Holograph notes for MINT00265 (Mint 19/2/618-20) | 1 | 38 | 236 | 1701 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6862 | MINT00268 | 'Of Credit good & bad, and of the usefulness of the former' (changed from 'Of Credit good & counterfeit, & of the usefulness of the first & danger of the last') | 1 | 38 | 2,678 | 1701 | Complete copy of the 'Observations' in Pierpont Morgan Library, Acc. No. MA317(7).||Followed by a collection of preparatory notes for this and the foregoing parts of the 'Observations'.||Memorandum constituting part 3 of Newton's 'Observations on Mr P's Reply'. Rejects Pollexfen's comparison of paper money to counterfeit coin. Credit backed by good security, such as bills of exchange, bank bills, Exchequer bills, malt tickets, Million Lottery tickets, annuity tickets, etc., can be treated exactly like coin. It is the perceived value that matters. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6866 | MINT00269 | Partial holograph drafts of all three parts of the 'Observations', in no particular order | 1 | 38 | 8,009 | 1701 | (a) (Mint 19/2/640r) Thomas Kemp [moneyer] to Newton. 15 February 1700 [= 1701]. Original letter. Another hand [Kemp's?]. On arrangements for the trial of John Crossly [presumably a counterfeiter].||(b) (Mint 19/2/640v-642r) 'The Tabernacle Accompts': holograph accounts for the quarter to Christmas 1700 of the Tabernacle [a chapel of ease of which Newton was one of the trustees 1700-22].||Kemp's letter printed in NC, 4: 353-4. 'Tabernacle Accompts' printed in NC, 4: 377-80.||Partly written on the reverse of or blank spaces in: | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6868 | MINT00270 | Recommendations regarding currency control | 1 | 38 | 359 | c. 20 January 1701 | Draft of PRO, Mint 1/8, p. 25 (dated 20 January 1700/1 and printed in Horton, Silver Pound, 261-2). This version printed in NC, 4: 352-3.||Recommend devaluation of the English pistole to discourage the import of French ones, citing the devaluation of Scottish coinage four years previously as a precedent. Warn that silver coin is of less intrinsic value than silver bullion, a situation which should be reversed. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6869 | MINT00271 | Drafts of MINT00270 (Mint 19/2/139) | 67 | 38 | 1,860 | c. 20 January 1701 | Mint 19/2/81r is in a clerical hand, heavily emended and expanded by Newton; the other folios are holograph. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6871 | MINT00272 | Discussion of standards by which to gauge the value of gold coin (specifically pistoles) | 1 | 38 | 671 | Late January 1701? | Further reduction of the estimate of the true value of the pistole given in MINT00270 (Mint 19/2/139).||Printed in NC, 7: 416-17; copy in PRO, Mint 1/7, p. 28. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6872 | MINT00273 | Holograph draft of MINT00272 (Mint 19/2/142) | 1 | 38 | 976 | Late January 1701? | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6873 | MINT00274 | Notes on the value of French pistoles | 14 | 38 | 651 | c. 31 January 1700/1 | Mint 19/2/153 is in another hand, the others are holograph. Mint 19/2/152 is dated 31 January 1700/1. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6874 | MINT00275 | 'An Abstract of the king of France's Edict of Sept. 17 1701', fixing French coinage values and gold-silver ratio | 1 | 38 | 1,160 | late September 1701, in English | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6875 | MINT00276 | Copy (in French) of a French edict of 19 September 1701 on demonetisation | 14 | 38 | 395 | late September 1701 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6876 | MINT00277 | Suggests considering a revision of the relative value of gold and silver in England on the model of recent French legislation which has brought France into line with the Netherlands | 1 | 38 | 317 | 28 September 1701 | Draft of T. 1/76.36, MINT00934 (of the same date, printed in Horton, Silver Pound, 263, Shaw, 152-3 and NC, 4: 373-4). | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6877 | MINT00278 | Holograph draft of an act to come into force 10 May 1702 (but the paragraph containing the date has been deleted) regulating the melting, stamping, import and export of bullion | 1 | 38 | 2,625 | Before 10 May 1702. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6878 | MINT00279 | Incomplete holograph draft of MINT00278 (Mint 19/2/577-83) giving the date for the proposed act to come into force as 1 June 1702 | 1 | 38 | 388 | Before 10 May 1702. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6879 | MINT00280 | Holograph draft of legislation restricting the export of silver bullion | 1 | 38 | 218 | Before 10 May 1702. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6881 | MINT00281 | Recommendations on currency regulation and devaluation of the guinea | 1 | 38 | 1,038 | 2 July 1702 | After an examination of foreign coins, it appears that gold is over-valued in England. Propose a reduction of the guinea by between 6d. and a shilling. Advise against trying to prevent the exportation of coin by legislation: 'such a standing law cramps trade & thereby may be more effectual to prevent the importation of silver then to keep in the money'. Economic measures are to be preferred. Various other suggestions for modification of the coinage, including the use of coarser material in small coins to make them more durable, and comments on trade and finance.||Final version, dated 7 July 1702, in T. 1/80.105, MINT00937 (printed in Horton, Silver Pound, 264-6, in Shaw, 153-7 (where it is misdated 17 July), and in NC, 4: 388-91). | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6882 | MINT00282 | Variant and apparently earlier holograph draft of MINT00281 (Mint 19/2/78-9): the note 'writt in 1701' has been added in another hand, though it seems likely this is a mistake | 1 | 38 | 1,341 | 1701? | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6883 | MINT00283 | Further holograph drafts of MINT00281 (Mint 19/2/78-9) | 1 | 38 | 3,401 | Before 2 July 1702. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6884 | MINT00284 | Holograph draft paragraph for MINT00281 (Mint 19/2/78-9), followed by the deleted draft of a Latin paragraph [for Book Two of the second (1713) edition of the Principia] | 1 | 38 | 564 | #VALUE! | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6886 | MINT00285 | 'The value of Gold in proportion to silver in several parts of Europe' | 1 | 38 | 1,545 | 1 & 7 July 1702 | Final version (including the post script, in Newton's hand, dated 7 July 1702 and signed by the Mint Board) in T. 1/80.105, MINT00939 (printed in Horton, Silver Pound, 267-70, and in Shaw, 162-6); this version commented on in NC, 7: 425 (no. 650). Another draft at MINT00330 (Mint 19/2/2-3).||First appendix to MINT00281 (Mint 19/2/78-9). Detailed analysis of the gold/silver ratio in various foreign currencies and the value of the British guinea in each. Post script dated 7 July 1702 lists the values of various foreign coins. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6887 | MINT00286 | Further holograph drafts of MINT00285 (Mint 19/2/104-5) | 1 | 38 | 3,737 | Before 1 July 1702 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6889 | MINT00287 | 'Proposals for preserving and encreasing the Coyn of this Kingdome.' Draft of second appendix to MINT00281 (Mint 19/2/78-9) | 1 | 38 | 902 | c. 7 July 1702 | Draft of T. 1/80.105, MINT00940 (dated 7 July 1702 and printed in Horton, Silver Pound, 270-71 and Shaw, 166-9).||Various suggestions for countering the depletion of gold and silver reserves. A ban, or at least a restriction, should be imposed on the use of gold and silver in clothes, household goods, etc. The allowance of plate for personal use on board ship, at present unlimited, should be regulated. Above all, the excessive exportation of gold and silver by the East India Companies (especially the new one) should be curbed by obliging them to export an equal amount, or at least half as much, in commodities. All imports and exports of bullion should be examined and recorded by the Mint. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6890 | MINT00288 | Clerical copy of excerpts of MINT00937 (T. 1/80.105) omitted from MINT00281 (Mint 19/2/78-9) | 14 | 38 | 332 | ca. 7 July 1702 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6891 | MINT00289 | Holograph drafts of MINT00287 (Mint 19/2/602-3) | 1 | 38 | 8,374 | c. 7 July 1702 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6893 | MINT00290 | Report on exchange rates in American colonies | 1 | 38 | 1,876 | c. 9 December 1703. | In reply to the Council of Trade's reference of 2 December 1703, the Mint agree that there should be a uniform rate for foreign coins throughout America to prevent plantations undermining each other's trade. Recommend universal adoption of the Massachusetts standard. A table of intrinsic values of Spanish, Mexican and Peruvian coins by English standards is annexed.||Variant draft dated 9 December 1703 calendared in CTB, 19 (1704-March 1705): 224. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6894 | MINT00291 | Formula for calculating customs duty, followed by notes on the measurements of Herod's temple and a series of trigonometrical calculations | 1 | 38 | 365 | 1703-4 | On reverse: Latin notes on time and motion. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6895 | MINT00292 | Fragmentary draft of MINT00291 (Mint 19/3/444) concerning the method of calculating the Queen's duty on East India Goods | 1 | 38 | 759 | 1703-4 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6896 | MINT00293 | Two holograph copies of a mathematical demonstration of MINT00291 (Mint 19/3/444) | 1 | 38 | 599 | 1703-4 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6898 | MINT00294 | Report on a proposal by one White for gluing duty marks onto paper rather than impressing it [to certify that the recently-imposed tax on paper for parchments and deeds had been paid] | 1 | 38 | 211 | 15 May 1704 | Newton rejects the method on both aesthetic and practical grounds.||Printed in NC, 4: 415-16. See also the briefer report by Newton to the same effect c. mid-February 1704 (NC, 4: 413). | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6899 | MINT00295 | Holograph draft of MINT00294 (Mint 19/3/447), with a deleted suggestion that if the mark could be 'made in the Body of the Paper' [rather than glued on top: the idea seems to be something akin to a watermark] it might be very useful | 1 | 38 | 221 | 8 May 1704 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6900 | MINT00296 | 'A Table of the weight and intrinsic value of forreign coynes in England' | 1 | 38 | 379 | June 1704 | Followed by a holograph assessment of various exchange rates and the value various coins should bear in the American plantations. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6901 | MINT00297 | Holograph copy of the table in MINT00296 (Mint 19/2/17) | 1 | 38 | 111 | June 1704 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6902 | MINT00298 | Fragmentary holograph notes for MINT00296 (Mint 19/2/17) | 1 | 38 | 131 | June 1704 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6903 | MINT00299 | 'Proposals for setting a new standard of Plate' | 1 | 38 | 863 | 1711 or earlier | Proposed regulations on hallmarking and restrictions on the use of solder (to come into effect on an unspecified date in 1711). | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6904 | MINT00300 | Holograph draft regulations on hallmarking and provision for regular trials by the Mint's assay master, with notes on past legislation | 1 | 38 | 1,266 | Possibly ca. 1697 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6905 | MINT00301 | Holograph draft of legislation (to come into effect on an unspecified date in 1711) on the fineness of hallmarked silver | 1 | 38 | 672 | 1711 or earlier. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6907 | MINT00302 | 'Inquiries concerning the 800000 Mexico and Pillar Dollars purchased by her Majesty & coyned into two Real pieces for the Spanish service' | 1 | 38 | 3,512 | Mid-1711 | Detailed report on the value of the coin and the practicalities of this operation.||[The money in question was the booty of two Genoese ships captured in the Mediterranean in February or early March 1711, and the intention was to use it to pay British troops in Spain: see NC, 5: 161, n.4 for further details.] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6908 | MINT00303 | Preliminary holograph notes for MINT00302 (Mint 19/2/193-4) | 1 | 38 | 658 | Mid-1711 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6909 | MINT00304 | 'Observations upon coynes' | 1 | 38 | 259 | Mid-1711 | On the average weight of Mexican, Peruvian and Seville coins. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6910 | MINT00305 | On the value of Mexican, Peruvian and Seville coins | 1 | 38 | 200 | 10 June 1711 | Printed in NC, 5: 160-1. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6911 | MINT00306 | Holograph drafts of MINT00305 (Mint 19/2/205) | 1 | 38 | 557 | June 1711 | Mint 19/2/203 is dated 8 June 1711. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6912 | MINT00307 | More detailed account of the value of Mexican and Seville coins taking wear into account | 1 | 38 | 401 | After 14 June 1711 | Printed in NC, 5: 162-3, and see T. 27/19.361, MINT01030, for the Treasury's order, printed in NC, 5:162 (no. 849), dated 14 June 1711, to draw up this report. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6913 | MINT00308 | Further holograph draft of MINT00307 (Mint 19/2/195) | 1 | 38 | 656 | After 14 June 1711 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6914 | MINT00309 | Fragmentary holograph notes on whether the coins should be received in London or Port Mahon [in Minorca] | 1 | 38 | 87 | early 1700s | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6915 | MINT00310 | Holograph draft memorandum on the value of the dollars after recoining | 1 | 38 | 1,430 | Mid-1711 | (Part of manuscript torn off.) | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6918 | MINT00311 | Correspondence relating to Spanish coinage | 1 | 38 | 123 | Aug. 1711 | (a) 16 August 1711. Treasury to Mint. Another hand. Order for a valuation of a Spanish two-real piece.||(b) 21 August 1711. Newton to Treasury. Holograph draft valuation.||MINT00311(b) is a draft of PRO, T1/136, no. 39 (printed in Shaw, 176, and NC, 5: 189). | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6919 | MINT00312 | Valuation of another three two-real pieces and new estimate of the total amount to be produced by the reminting as 4,189,000 two-real pieces | 1 | 38 | 257 | 5 October 1711 | Printed in NC, 5: 196. See NC, 5: 195-6 for the Treasury's order for this valuation, dated 3 October 1711, and ibid., 196-7, for the Treasury's reply, which gives the date. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6920 | MINT00313 | Holograph draft memorandum giving a detailed list of measures to be taken to supervise the reminting in Spain, assess the quality of the resulting coin and organise finances | 1 | 38 | 815 | After 6 October 1711 | Printed in NC, 5: 197-8, and see NC, 5: 196-7 for the Treasury's order of 6 October to produce this report. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6921 | MINT00314 | On differences between the customary par and the current rate of exchange between English and French money at Dunkirk, and what proportion of the loss should be born by the Crown | 1 | 38 | 423 | Early October 1712 | Draft of T. 1/152.44b, MINT00973 (printed in Shaw, 184-5 and NC, 5: 343-4). | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6922 | MINT00315 | Three holograph drafts of MINT00314 (Mint 19/2/172) | 1 | 38 | 1,088 | Early October 1712 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6923 | MINT00316 | Fragmentary holograph draft of MINT00314 (Mint 19/2/172) | 1 | 38 | 90 | Early October 1712 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6924 | MINT00317 | Variant holograph draft of MINT00314 (Mint 19/2/172) | 1 | 38 | 368 | Oct. 1712 | Printed in NC, 5: 341-2 (which regards it as a document distinct from and earlier than MINT00314, although noting that it is in part identical). | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6925 | MINT00318 | Proposal of 'L.W.' for decimalising the coinage by dividing sixpence into 25 farthings [effectively, what did eventually happen at decimalisation, as this makes ten farthings equal to one modern penny] | 1 | 38 | 615 | Before 31 May 1714 | In the margin, in another hand: Treasury note dated 31 May 1714 to refer the proposal to Newton. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6926 | MINT00319 | Referral of the above | 70 | 38 | 49 | 7 June 1714 | Printed in NC, 6: 150. Copy in PRO, T27/21, p. 219. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6927 | MINT00320 | Holograph draft notice to tax receivers reducing the accepted value of moidores | 1 | 38 | 209 | 1714 | Another draft at MINT00823 (Mint 19/3/407). | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6928 | MINT00321 | Proposal to raise 28,333 per 1,000 tons of copper coined by reducing the weight of halfpence and farthings | 71 | 38 | 963 | 21 May 1717 | Further proposal to invest the money thus saved in work schemes to employ the poor. Offer to reveal another scheme to raise above two million pounds in a year. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6930 | MINT00322 | Response to an order to report on gold and silver coin in Britain | 1 | 38 | 1,877 | 21 September 1717 | Highly detailed analysis of the gold-silver value ratio in each major European country, China, Japan and 'East India' [i.e. the Indian subcontinent], and the value of a British gold guinea under each system. Concludes that by comparison with all other countries except Spain, Britain over-values gold relative to silver, resulting in excessive export of silver and a strong incentive to melt down silver coin (since it is worth more as bullion), and hence a shortage of silver coin. Though this could be remedied in the short term by coining from silver plate, of which there is no shortage, this would only encourage the export of such silver. In time, market forces will in any case raise the value of silver relative to gold as it becomes scarcer, but [Newton's report heavily implies] government intervention to reduce the face value of the gold guinea would usefully speed the process up.||This is either a draft or a copy of Newton's holograph original, also dated 21 September 1717, T. 1/208.43, MINT01000. There is also a clerical copy in Babson College, Ms. 429. The report was first published in the Daily Courant, no. 5057 (30 December 1717) and has been frequently reprinted: in Prior, Observations, 27-32, as a House of Commons paper on 5 March 1830, in McCulloch, Select Tracts, 274-9, in Shaw, 189-95, and in NC, 6: 415-19. See also NC, 6: 407-8 (T. 27/22.200b, MINT01064,Treasury's order for this report, dated 12 August 1717), and Westfall, 837-8. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6931 | MINT00323 | Holograph drafts of MINT00322 (Mint 19/2/111-16) | 1 | 38 | 11,083 | c. 21 September 1717 | Mint 19/2/107 is also dated 21 September 1717. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6932 | MINT00324 | Partial holograph drafts of MINT00322 (Mint 19/2/111-16) | 1 | 38 | 2,402 | September 1717 | On reverse of Mint 19/2/65: holograph calculations. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6933 | MINT00325 | Holograph notes for MINT00322 (Mint 19/2/111-16) | 1 | 38 | 709 | September 1717 | On reverse: calculations. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6934 | MINT00326 | Holograph notes for MINT00322 (Mint 19/2/111-16) | 1 | 38 | 224 | September 1717 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6935 | MINT00327 | Holograph table of gold coins, drawn up as an appendix to MINT00322 (Mint 19/2/111-16) | 1 | 38 | 405 | September 1717 | Substantially reproduced in Prior, Observations, 33, in Ede, A View of the Gold and Silver Coins of All Nations, 44-5, and in Shaw, 161. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6936 | MINT00328 | Holograph table of silver coins, drawn up as an appendix to MINT00322 (Mint 19/2/111-16) | 1 | 38 | 1,099 | September 1717 | Substantially reproduced in Prior, Observations, 34-6, in Ede, A View of the Gold and Silver Coins of All Nations, 39-43, and in Shaw, 158-60. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6937 | MINT00329 | Holograph drafts of MINT00328 (Mint 19/2/61) | 1 | 38 | 1,946 | September 1717 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6938 | MINT00330 | Holograph drafts of MINT00327 (Mint 19/2/52), MINT00328 (Mint 19/2/61) and MINT00285 (Mint 19/2/104-5) | 1 | 38 | 1,754 | September 1717 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6939 | MINT00331 | Further holograph drafts of MINT00327 (Mint 19/2/52) and MINT00328 (Mint 19/2/61) | 1 | 38 | 4,286 | September 1717 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6940 | MINT00332 | Copy of a pamphlet [not by Newton] entitled 'Reasons for new-Coyning our Money so as to increase and preserve it, And for paying the Publick Debts' | 1 | 38 | 3,112 | 1717? | Opposes a rumoured plan to reduce the guinea to below 21s.6d., and proposes instead a 12 reduction in the output of silver coin. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6942 | MINT00333 | 'A Third Letter to a Member of Parliament concerning the Value of GUINEAS, and the true Proportion between Gold and Silver' | 1 | 38 | 5,226 | 1717? | Marginal corrections by Newton.||Undated printed pamphlet. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6943 | MINT00334 | Printed proclamation prohibiting the exchange of guineas for more than 21s., with commensurate figures for other gold coins | 1 | 38 | 533 | 22 December 1717 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6945 | MINT00335 | High praise of MINT00322 (Mint 19/2/111-16) following its publication in the previous day's Daily Courant, though with certain reservations about the risk of a drain on gold reserves following the devaluation | 224 | 38 | 769 | 31 December 1717 | Deplores earlier Treasury officers for their failure to introduce such measures to protect the currency. Suggests Newton also publish his opinions on paper money and the need (if he agrees with the writer) to regulate it in similar fashion.||Printed in NC, 6: 426-7. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6947 | MINT00336 | 'Observations upon the state of the Coins of Gold and Silver' | 1 | 38 | 1,240 | 20 October 1718 | Printed in NC, 7: 8-10.Variant clerical copy dated 22 October printed in Rigaud, Correspondence, 2: 430-34. See also the Treasury's order for this report, NC, 7: 5.||Seven-point memorandum detailing the benefits accruing to the nation since the devaluation of the guinea and arguing against raising it again. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6948 | MINT00337 | Holograph drafts of MINT00336 (Mint 19/2/124-5) | 67 | 38 | 5,057 | October 1718 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6950 | MINT00338 | Notes for MINT00336 (Mint 19/2/124-5) | 1 | 38 | 502 | October 1718 | Printed portion calendared in NC, 7: 483 (no. X.1287).||Written on the back of a page from a printed account, dated May 1718 and signed manually by Henry Newman, of the charitable disbursements of the Commissioners for Relieving Poor Proselytes, for the information of contributors to this organisation. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6951 | MINT00339 | Clerical copies of royal warrant setting income tax at 2.5 | 1 | 38 | 1,324 | 8 August 1721 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6952 | MINT00340 | Holograph memorandum: is income tax payable by the Mint on money raised for it under the Coinage Act? | 1 | 38 | 265 | 1721? | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6953 | MINT00341 | Further holograph draft of MINT00340 (Mint 19/1/359) | 1 | 38 | 341 | 1721? | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6954 | MINT00342 | Holograph summary of relevant clauses of the Coinage Acts of 1666, 1708, and 1715, with a query as to whether taxes are leviable on income received under the last of these | 1 | 38 | 750 | 1715 or later | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6955 | MINT00343 | Holograph draft or summary of legislation concerning the receipt of bullion by the Mint and the roles of the various Mint officers in this operation | 1 | 38 | 910 | ca. 1697 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6956 | MINT00344 | Holograph 'Notes out of [Jean] Boizard's Traite des Monoyes' ['Treatise on Coin' (1692, second edition 1714), both editions of which Newton owned: see H237-8] on French Mint practice (the notes are in English) | 1 | 38 | 864 | After 13 April 1696 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6957 | MINT00345 | Holograph draft memoranda on legislation under Queen Anne relating to duty on foreign trade | 1 | 38 | 931 | #VALUE! | Followed by notes (taken from a French book on historical coins, but in English) about a mosaic design in the palace of Pope Leo III. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6958 | MINT00346 | 'Considerations upon Trade' | 1 | 38 | 409 | 1701 | A sequence of at best loosely-connected paragraphs. English money flows to France and India where goods are cheaper and wages lower. Bullion can only be obtained through the Spanish and Portuguese, who control the West Indies. Coinage statistics since the reign of Charles I. Suggests restrictions on the trade with France in wool and silk. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6959 | MINT00347 | 'Extracts out of an Act of the first Parliament of King Iames the seventh chap. XXIV anent a free coinage' | 1 | 38 | 705 | 1697 | Table of import duties payable to the Edinburgh Mint and various details of bookkeeping procedure. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6960 | MINT00348 | Printed ready-reckoner, compiled by George Brown, of the value in sterling silver of varying finenesses of bullion (for the use of merchants supplying bullion to the Mint) (Edinburgh, 1687) | 72 | 38 | 1,417 | 1687 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6961 | MINT00349 | Similar but less elaborate printed reckoner for bullion values, without the compiler's name | 14 | 38 | 550 | 1687 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6962 | MINT00350 | 'Act of parliament about the Mint' | 1 | 38 | 190 | 22 July 1690, with notes by Newton from after 13 April 1696. | Extract of legislation raising poundage at Edinburgh from 18 to 20 Scottish pounds per stone weight of silver. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6963 | MINT00351 | Holograph copy of MINT00350 (Mint 19/3/14), headed 'The Clause in an Act of Parliament made in Scotland A.C. 1690' | 1 | 38 | 176 | 22 July 1690, with notes by Newton from after 13 April 1696. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6967 | MINT00352 | Assorted draft memoranda relating to the Edinburgh mint | 67 | 38 | 819 | 1707 | (a) Holograph memorandum on the Scottish act of 1686 requiring the provision of standard English weights in Scotland and stipulating that 'a standard or printed Table shall be kept in the Mint-house of the values of money or bullion [...] by wch Marchants or others may know what they were to give in or get out when their bullion doth arise above or fall below the standard appointed' [see MINT00348 and MINT00349 (Mint 19/3/10, 179), which appear to meet this desideratum].||(b) Fragmentary memorandum in another hand on the same act.||(c) [1707?] Memorandum in Newton's hand: 'To be considered how much money may be applied to ye Mint in Scotland & after what manner'.||(d) Further memoranda by Newton proposing that the bullion clerk double as weigher and teller and surveyor of meltings, and summarising more recent legislation on the funding of the Edinburgh Mint. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6968 | MINT00353 | Extract from the London Mint indenture allocating poundage, followed by an extract from the warrant requiring the Edinburgh Mint to follow the rules set out in the London Mint indenture | 1 | 38 | 335 | 1707 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6969 | MINT00354 | Holograph drafts of royal warrants to the Edinburgh master and officers to undertake coining according to the rules set out in Newton's indenture | 1 | 38 | 610 | 1707 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6971 | MINT00355 | Proposals for new sets of check weights and new gold and silver trial plates to be made for both London and Edinburgh | 73 | 38 | 564 | 23 March 1706 [= 1707] | Another copy (dated 24 March) in Mint 1/8.136, MINT01210.||Suggests that either the Edinburgh staff be sent to London for training, or an instructor sent from London to Edinburgh. New machinery needed in Edinburgh should also be sent from London. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6973 | MINT00356 | Detailed list of supplies to be sent to Edinburgh and their prices | 1 | 38 | 338 | 12 April 1707 | Draft of T. 1/101.91, MINT00950 (of the same date, printed in NC, 4: 485-7).||The Edinburgh Mint's other requirements can be met locally as hitherto. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6974 | MINT00357 | 'A Bill of the prizes [i.e. prices] of such Tools & other things as may be usefull in her Majts Mint in Scotland', with a covering letter to the Treasury | 1 | 38 | 1,115 | c. 12 April 1707 | Clerical copy dated 12 April 1707 in Mint 1/8.137-9, MINT01211. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6975 | MINT00358 | Variant holograph drafts of MINT00357 (Mint 19/3/15-16) | 1 | 38 | 1,442 | c. 12 April 1707 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6977 | MINT00359 | The articles ordered for the Edinburgh Mint have been embarked, all except the weights and seals, as authorisation to mark the weights has not yet been given: request for such authorisation | 1 | 38 | 236 | 26 May 1707 | Printed in NC, 4: 489-90. Clerical copy of the same date in PRO, Mint 1/8, p. 142.||Signed by the Mint Board. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6979 | MINT00360 | If pyx trials are to continue to be conducted in Scotland as the Lord Chancellor of Scotland wishes, new gold and silver trial pieces should be made and allotted to the English and Scottish Mints and Treasuries and to the Goldsmith's Company | 1 | 38 | 773 | 31 May 1707 | Details of the warrants that need to be issued for the Scottish mint to begin work. Scottish coins should be stamped with a distinguishing mark such as E for Edinburgh; otherwise the coins of the two Mints must be identical.||Printed in NC, 4: 491-3. Clerical copy, undated, in PRO, Mint 1/8, pp. 141-2. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6980 | MINT00361 | Rough holograph drafts of MINT00360 (Mint 19/3/190) | 1 | 38 | 1,522 | 31 May 1707 | Mint 19/3/138 also dated 31 May 1707. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6981 | MINT00362 | Partial holograph draft of MINT00360 (Mint 19/3/190) | 1 | 38 | 315 | 31 May 1707 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6982 | MINT00363 | Holograph fragment of MINT00360 (Mint 19/3/190) | 1 | 38 | 63 | 31 May 1707 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6984 | MINT00364 | Letter from Newton to the Treasury requesting a warrant for check weights to be sent to Edinburgh | 1 | 38 | 211 | Early June 1707 | Printed in NC, 4: 494.||[Note on dating: NC gives 5 June 1707, which it says is the date of the copy in the Royal Mint Record Books Mint 1/8, p. 144, but there is no such copy. There is, however, a similar but considerably longer request from the Mint Board to the Treasury, also mentioning trial pieces and details of the Edinburgh master's indenture, in Mint 1/8, p. 143, dated 2 June 1707.] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6985 | MINT00365 | Royal warrant to George Allardes [Allardyce, Allardice, master of the Edinburgh Mint] to coin crowns, half-crowns, shillings and sixpences in the proportion 20: 30: 40: 10, as in England, using London tools, and inscribing the letter E on each coin | 1 | 38 | 313 | 20 June 1707 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6987 | MINT00366 | Report on the Edinburgh Mint | 1 | 38 | 279 | 23 June 1707 | Advises that the Edinburgh Mint has only one clerk, and that the processes and bookkeeping methods used there do not conform to English practice, with which none of their officers is familiar. Suggests David Gregory and one of the London clerks be sent to instruct them, and requests that a salary for this service be decided on. The London Mint will supply Edinburgh with dies and puncheons until the Edinburgh engraver's work is found satisfactory.||Holograph copy in T. 1/102.57, MINT00951 (dated 24 June and printed in NC, 4: 494-5). | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6988 | MINT00367 | Further holograph drafts of MINT00366 (Mint 19/3/181) | 1 | 38 | 632 | 23 June 1707 | Mint 19/3/144 also dated 23 June 1707. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6989 | MINT00368 | Holograph draft of Treasury warrant to John Stanley [London warden] to have two sets of check weights made, one for London and one for Edinburgh. Followed by a series of calculations | 1 | 38 | 215 | c. 25 June 1707 | Clerical copy dated 25 June 1707 in PRO, Mint 1/8, p. 144. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6990 | MINT00369 | Holograph memorandum on Edinburgh trial plates and pyx trial | 1 | 38 | 453 | May 1707 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6991 | MINT00370 | On the need to supply the Edinburgh Mint with trial plates, weights, dies and Mint marks | 1 | 38 | 551 | May 1707 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6992 | MINT00371 | Royal warrant appointing David Gregory to supervise the reorganisation of the Edinburgh Mint | 1 | 38 | 395 | 12 July 1707 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6993 | MINT00372 | Clerical copies of royal warrant appointing the moneyers Thomas Seabrook [Saybrook], Henry Haley and Richard Collard to Edinburgh | 1 | 38 | 1,129 | 12 July 1707 | Referred to in NC, 7: 449 (no. X.726.2) (which gives the erroneous reference Mint 19/3/136-7). | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6994 | MINT00373 | Holograph draft query as to whether the Queen cannot empower the master of the Edinburgh Mint to employ moneyers at his own discretion and on his own terms, as the master of the London Mint does | 1 | 38 | 103 | May 1707 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
6996 | MINT00374 | Encloses a list [MINT00375 (Mint 19/3/111)] of items needed to begin work at the Edinburgh Mint, especially puncheons for crowns and half-crowns, which are to be coined first | 74 | 38 | 299 | 12 August 1707 | Printed in NC, 4: 497-8.||Requests advice on administering the withdrawal of coinage, which is proving very difficult. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6997 | MINT00375 | 'Extract of a Memll from Scotland relating to the Mint and Recoynage of the Moneys there' | 1 | 38 | 316 | c. 12 August 1707 | Memorandum from the Privy Council of Scotland on the needs of the Edinburgh Mint, enclosed with MINT00374 (Mint 19/3/110). | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6998 | MINT00376 | As the English recoinage was 'troublesome expensive and liable to abuse & gross abuses were actually committed in it', recommends various procedures to avoid a recurrence in Scotland. Possibly in reply to MINT00374 (Mint 19/3/110) | 1 | 38 | 1,130 | August? 1707 | Printed in NC, 4: 502-3. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
6999 | MINT00377 | On equipment still needed by the Edinburgh Mint, especially crown and half-crown puncheons, which are to be sent overland as this is the quickest way | 1 | 38 | 614 | August 1707 | Printed in NC, 7: 450-51. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7000 | MINT00378 | Another, rougher holograph draft of MINT00377 (Mint 19/3/78) | 1 | 38 | 682 | August 1707 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7001 | MINT00379 | Bill for machinery for Edinburgh | 1 | 38 | 48 | 27 August 1707 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7004 | MINT00380 | Petition for recovery of income lost and expenses incurred through the reorganisation of the Edinburgh Mint | 75 | 38 | 312 | 9 September 1707 | Complains that whereas formerly he was paid 250 a piece for making puncheons, he now has to receive puncheons from London which have proven broken or faulty. He is repairing or replacing these and hopes that due recompense will be forthcoming.||Printed in NC, 7: 451-2.||[Together with his fellow engraver Joseph Cave, Clark renewed this petition over four years later: PRO, Mint 1/8, p. 164, referred by Treasury to Mint 7 January 1711 [=1712]. On 16 July following, the Mint board finally recommended acceptance: PRO, T1/149, no. 45.] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7005 | MINT00381 | Report on recent assays and preparations for a pyx trial of pre-Union coin | 74 | 38 | 218 | 16 September 1707 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7006 | MINT00382 | An increase in fineness of silver in the course of melting has been detected: sends samples to demonstrate and requests advice on what to do about it. Some puncheons and other equipment ordered from London have still not arrived | 74 | 38 | 330 | 9 October 1707 | Printed in NC, 4: 498-9. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7007 | MINT00383 | Minute of an Edinburgh Mint meeting | 1 | 38 | 264 | 14 October 1707 | Concludes that Richard Morgan [the London clerk sent to Edinburgh: see MINT00366 (Mint 19/3/181)] has successfully completed his tasks and can be released. Signed by the Edinburgh Mint Board and David Gregory. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7008 | MINT00384 | Minute of the Edinburgh Mint Board recommending the appointment of an assistant to the assay master | 1 | 38 | 136 | 28 October 1707 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7009 | MINT00385 | Minutes of a meeting of the Edinburgh Mint officers to discuss the increase in fineness of silver during melting and arrangements to remedy this by periodical addition of copper | 1 | 38 | 379 | 5 November 1707 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7010 | MINT00386 | Minutes of another meeting of the Edinburgh officers on the same subject | 1 | 38 | 307 | 10 November 1707 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7015 | MINT00387 | Model letter for Allardes to send to Treasurer Godolphin | 1 | 38 | 641 | Before 14 November 1707 | Explains that the use of coal rather than charcoal in Scottish furnaces leads to a fiercer heat and hence a more rapid evaporation of the copper admixture. Proposes continuation of the traditional Scottish method [of adding a few grains of copper to the silver in the course of melting] of compensating for this.||Letter to Allardes printed in NC, 7: 455, that to Prince George's treasurer in NC, 4: 480. Allardes duly used Newton's guidelines to produce the memorial now in PRO, T17/1, pp. 172-3.||On reverse: holograph draft of MINT00388 (Mint 19/1/187).||Preceded by a holograph draft letter of 28 November 1706 from Newton to Prince George's Treasurer, ordering payment of 50 on the Prince's account to John Flamsteed for preparing his papers for the press [the Historia C?lestis Britannica, printed 1707 and eventually published 1712].||[On the Scottish practice of adding copper and the reasons for it, see NC, 4: 500-501, n. 2, and Craig, NATM, 71-2. Craig's account is a little confusing, however: he states that the practice had earlier been stopped on Newton's orders, giving the reference Newton MSS Mint 19/3/181. That, however, is MINT00366 in this catalogue and has no bearing on this matter at all. No other document issuing such an order has been identified, except insofar as it is implicit in the legislation requiring the Edinburgh Mint to conform to London practice: see MINT00353 (Mint 19/3/18). However, Newton undoubtedly was uncomfortable with the practice and accepted it only reluctantly: see especially MINT00452 and MINT00453 (Mint 19/1/181-2, 188). Craig also states that in this and the following document Newton made 'a stipulation that uniformity should again be attempted as soon as the recoinage was completed' (NATM, 72), which is something of an overstatement: what Newton actually proposed was that the Scots 'be still allowed if her Majty pleases to use their ancient Method [...] untill the present recoinage of the moneys in Scotland shall be finished'.] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7017 | MINT00388 | In response to Allardes' proposal, recommends that for the duration of the recoinage the Scots be allowed to revert to their old practice [adding copper during melting] as this seems to be the only practicable method of producing standard coin there | 1 | 38 | 271 | 14 November 1707 | Printed in NC, 4: 500-501. Clerical copy of the same date in PRO, T17/1, p. 173.||[Newton is here effectively approving of his own suggestion, since it was he who drafted Allardes' proposal: see MINT00387 (Mint 19/1/183).] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7018 | MINT00389 | Very rough holograph draft of MINT00388 (Mint 19/1/187), also dated (in another hand) 14 November 1707 | 67 | 38 | 360 | 14 November 1707 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7021 | MINT00390 | Detailed instructions on melting and description of London practice | 1 | 38 | 764 | 15 November 1707? | Printed in NC, 7: 453-5.||The Treasurer has given Newton permission to release Gregory from his post, which he will do as soon as he receives a satisfactory report of melting practices in Scotland and a thorough description of the Edinburgh Mint and its output.||[Note on dating: this may very well be the letter referred to in MINT00393 (Mint 19/3/173) as dated 15 November 1707: see NC, 7: 454, n. 1.] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7023 | MINT00391 | Holograph draft written as from George Allardes to Treasurer (and signed 'George Allardes' in Newton's hand) | 1 | 38 | 304 | 4 December 1707 | Allardes has hitherto forwarded payment to moneyers for their extraordinary expenses and requests that he be allowed to enter these sums in his own accounts. Supplementary draft paragraph requesting that expenses arising from melting, hitherto born by the moneyers, be met from the Equivalent.||Clerical copy of the finished memorandum, in Allardes' name, undated, in PRO, Mint 1/8, p. 151. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7024 | MINT00392 | Clerical copy of MINT00391 (Mint 19/3/119), with the supplementary paragraph (on meeting melting expenses from the Equivalent) incorporated into the body of the letter | 1 | 38 | 303 | 4 December 1707 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7026 | MINT00393 | David Gregory: 'Ane account of the new regulations of Her Majesty's Mint at Edinburgh humbly laid before the Right Honble the Earle of Godolphin Lord high Treasurer of Great Britain' | 1 | 38 | 506 | 13 December 1707 | After arriving in Edinburgh on 1 August, Gregory ordered new equipment from London, appointed three new clerks, instructed these and the clerks already there in London techniques, and assigned new responsibilities to the Mint officers. Harmonisation with London practices proved difficult because the Edinburgh Mint used coal-fired furnaces [as opposed to slower-burning charcoal, which was unavailable in Scotland: see notes to MINT00387 (Mint 19/1/183)], but after various experiments undertaken in consultation with Newton a satisfactory method was established. Satisfied that London methods were well understood and practised, and having brought the coinage rate to 6,000 a week, he left on 21 November.||Another copy (in the third person) of the same date in T. 1/103.94, MINT00952 (printed in NC, 4: 503-5), and another at MINT00454(a) (Mint 19/3/24). | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7027 | MINT00394 | Bill totalling 207.14s. for equipment made for the Edinburgh Mint by John Croker and Samuel Bull, engravers, and Thomas Sylvester, smith, between 15 July and 18 December 1707 | 1 | 38 | 181 | After 18 December 1707 | On reverse: summary of expenses involved in equipping the Edinburgh Mint. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7031 | MINT00395 | Request for advice on various aspects of Mint practice | 76 | 38 | 1,210 | 31 January 1708 | Asks for clarification of the rules relating to the pyx trial and the permissible margin of error. Detailed queries about bookkeeping and the types of metal that may or may not be accepted from the moneyers for various purposes, with an account of traditional Scottish practice. Complains about the poor quality of foreign coin being received and the lack of funds for tools, repairs and payment of the master's commission.||On reverse: fragmentary note in Newton's hand about a Lady Warwood.||Printed in NC, 4: 510-12.||Signed by Scott. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7032 | MINT00396 | Printed proclamation calling in Scottish crowns and 40s., 20s. and 10s. pieces by 10 February 1708 for recoinage | 1 | 38 | 845 | [Early] 1708 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7034 | MINT00397 | In response to queries from Allardes [MINT00391 (Mint 19/3/119), in fact drafted by Newton himself], the Mint approve the proposed allowances | 1 | 38 | 581 | c. 11 February 1708 | Details of the amounts to be paid to the Edinburgh Mint's employees and contractors and the sources from which this money should come (mainly advances from the bullion collectors, though certain items can be met from the Equivalent). Details of accounting procedure, with stress on the warden's responsibility for checking that money is correctly allocated.||Printed in NC, 7: 457-9. Clerical copy, dated 11 February 1707/8, in Mint 1/8.152, MINT01214. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7035 | MINT00398 | Variant draft of MINT00397 (Mint 19/3/152) | 1 | 38 | 539 | c. 11 February 1708 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7036 | MINT00399 | Variant holograph drafts of MINT00397 (Mint 19/3/152) | 1 | 38 | 2,075 | c. 11 February 1708 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7037 | MINT00400 | Memorandum by Scottish Treasury ordering [bullion collector] Daniel Stewart [Stuart] to pay Newton 532.13s.4d. for tools supplied to the Edinburgh Mint | 1 | 38 | 140 | 26 March 1708 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7039 | MINT00401 | Report on the Edinburgh Mint's financial difficulties | 77 | 38 | 324 | 27 March 1708 | Expresses concern about outstanding debts: 532.13s.4d. to Newton [see previous entry], 300 to Gregory and 60 to the clerk William Morgan. [Daniel] Stewart is critically ill and unable to sign the relevant bills: Drummond is trying to find other means of releasing the money.||Printed in NC, 7: 459-60. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7040 | MINT00402 | Orders for payment of the sums mentioned in MINT00400 (Mint 19/3/161) and MINT00401 (Mint 19/3/133-4) have been rendered void by Stewart's death: requests a new order for payment by his executors | 1 | 38 | 101 | 14 April 1708 | Printed in NC, 7: 461-2. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7042 | MINT00403 | Proposed measures to be taken in the wake of Daniel Stewart's recent death. Presumably a variant of MINT00402 (Mint 19/3/131) | 1 | 38 | 365 | 14 April 1708 | Printed in NC, 4: 515-16. Signed holograph copy of the same date, without the deleted paragraph, in PRO, T1/106, no. 54. Further drafts at MINT00594 (Mint 19/5/30) and MINT00705 (Mint 19/5/29).||Suggests Stewart's post of bullion collector, 'being irregular', be suppressed, and the Edinburgh Mint's financial arrangements remodelled on London's. Stewart's executors should be ordered to hand back to the Mint a sum of between 2,500 and 5,000 owing to it. [The last paragraph (on recouping money from Stewart's executors) has been struck through.] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7043 | MINT00404 | Report on financial difficulties | 78 | 38 | 756 | After April 1708 | The arrangements for meeting the costs of coinage in Scotland established under the act of 1686 are no longer applicable since the Union, which requires conformity between the London and Edinburgh Mints. Funds should have been supplied instead by the bullion collector [Daniel Stewart], but on account of his death there is no money available to pay salaries with. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7044 | MINT00405 | Another clerical copy of MINT00404 (Mint 19/3/121) | 1 | 38 | 688 | After April 1708 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7045 | MINT00406 | Unfinished holograph draft of a covering letter forwarding MINT00404 (Mint 19/3/121), suggesting that the money needed should be found from coinage duty and from Stewart's executors | 1 | 38 | 157 | After April 1708 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7046 | MINT00407 | Recommends commissioners for recoinage be paid 100 each, plus 60 between them for a clerk | 1 | 38 | 200 | 30 June 1708 | Partial draft of T. 1/108.41, MINT00953 (printed in NC, 4: 521-2). | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7049 | MINT00408 | Petition for a pay rise | 79 | 38 | 820 | 10 July 1708 | Calendared in NC, 7: 463 (no. X.744.1).||Complains he is paid only 60 p.a. as deputy comptroller despite doubling as weigher and teller. The Queen's clerk likewise doubles as clerk of the irons. Requests a pay increase for both, arrears owed to the new clerks, and a regular 10 p.a. for the melter James Shiels, currently employed only on a casual basis.||Signed by Boswell. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7050 | MINT00409 | The continued refusal of Stewart's executors to hand over money owed to the Edinburgh Mint has left them unable to carry on their business. Begs Newton to sort the mess out: 'All the officers of the Mint depend very much upon you in this matter' | 77 | 38 | 410 | 12 July 1708 | Printed in NC, 4: 522-3. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7052 | MINT00410 | Proposals for sorting out the Edinburgh Mint's finances | 1 | 38 | 1,562 | July? 1708 | Printed in NC, 7: 464-6.||Stewart's executors are denying the Edinburgh Mint's claim to the money left in his possession at his death. They should be ordered to release it so that coinage work can continue and the Edinburgh Mint staff be paid the six months' arrears they are owed. Suggest various financial safeguards to be instituted at the Edinburgh Mint, and that a payment of 2,000 security should be required from the master. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7053 | MINT00411 | Requests a bonus payment for his work in assisting the commissioners: his Edinburgh Mint salary is only 40 p.a | 80 | 38 | 227 | Before 10 August 1708 | Forwarded with MINT00412 (Mint 19/3/195). | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7055 | MINT00412 | Clarification of Millar's duties as assistant to the commissioners: encloses a copy of his petition [MINT00411 (Mint 19/3/194)]. Recoinage is proceeding satisfactorily | 76 | 38 | 226 | 10 August 1708 | Printed in NC, 7: 466.||Signed by Scott. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7056 | MINT00413 | Petition for 1/2 commission | 1 | 38 | 349 | 28 September 1708 | Signed by Robert Rutherford, Robert Bruce and Archibald Brown, commissioners. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7058 | MINT00414 | Correspondence between Newton and James Mountague [Queen's Counsel] regarding the Edinburgh Mint's finances | 38 | 309 | November - December 1708 | (a) [c. November 1708.] Newton to Mountague. Holograph original. Summary of the financial arrangements of the Edinburgh Mint, with two queries as to whether the commissioners can be paid out of pre-Union Scottish coinage duty, and who should give authority for such payment.||(b) 7 December 1708. Mountague to Newton (in Mountague's hand). The commissioners' fees should be met from the Equivalent, not coinage duty; the amount payable should be determined by the Treasurer, and authority for the release of this sum given by the Commissioners for the Equivalent.. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7059 | MINT00415 | Petition of the Committee of the Royal Boroughs, requesting that 8,000 worth of as yet uncoined metal be struck in 2d., 3d. and 4d. pieces | 1 | 38 | 219 | 14 December 1708 | Signed by Patrick Johnston (President of the Committee). | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7061 | MINT00416 | Recommend the commissioners for coinage in Scotland be paid a total of 700 between them | 1 | 38 | 255 | 28 December 1708 | Printed in NC, 7: 468-9.||Signed by the Mint Board. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7062 | MINT00417 | Holograph drafts of MINT00416 (Mint 19/3/74) | 1 | 38 | 1,647 | 28 December 1708 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7063 | MINT00418 | 'Considerations about the receiving of Scotch money by weight' | 1 | 38 | 373 | 1708? | An assessment of the true value of the recalled Scottish currency, allowing for deficiencies in coining and for counterfeit money. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7066 | MINT00419 | 'Memoriall from George Allardes Master of Her Majties Mint att Edinburgh to the honorable Sir Isaac Newton' | 1 | 38 | 846 | c. 12 February 1709 | Printed in NC, 4: 531-3.||Sent as an enclosure with MINT00420 (Mint 19/3/35).||The London moneyers are waiting for the Treasurer's permission to return to England as the recoinage is over. Concern about the slow progress in recalling the old money, which means there are insufficient funds for the recoinage and Allardes is having to make up the difference himself. Requests detailed advice about the conduct of a pyx trial, about various procedural and paperwork details, and especially about how much - and, more importantly, how - he is to pay his various officers and labourers. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7069 | MINT00420 | Covering letter for a 'Memoriall' relating to various difficulties [MINT00419 (Mint 19/3/177)] | 82 | 38 | 255 | 12 February 1709 | Begs Newton's pardon for troubling him with it but very much hopes he will respond, since 'I must acknowledge I am but a Stranger to what may be proper for me to do on this occasion'. Reminds Newton of Robert Millar's petition [MINT00411 (Mint 19/3/194)] and expresses support for it.||Printed in NC, 4: 530.||Signed by Allardes. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7071 | MINT00421 | Reply to MINT00419 (Mint 19/3/177) and MINT00420 (Mint 19/3/35) | 1 | 38 | 655 | c. March 1709 | Printed in NC, 4: 534-5.||The exchequer should press Stewart's executors for the outstanding bullion at once. Advice on drawing up accounts and paying commission. Stresses that all this is written 'as coming not from an Officer of ye Mint but from a private friend': Newton does not want Allardes' queries referred to the other Mint officers, 'with whom I find it sometimes difficult to agree'. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7073 | MINT00422 | Asks permission for the London moneyers to go home as the recoinage is finished | 77 | 38 | 229 | 12 March 1709 | Printed in NC, 7: 470-71.||Signed by Drummond. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7074 | MINT00423 | Another petition for extra payment [see MINT00411 (Mint 19/3/194)], probably enclosed with MINT00425 (Mint 19/3/123) | 80 | 38 | 391 | Before 28 June 1709 | Clerical copy, also undated, in PRO, Mint 1/8, p. 155. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7075 | MINT00424 | Clerical copy of MINT00423 (Mint 19/3/120) | 1 | 38 | 381 | Before 28 June 1709 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7079 | MINT00425 | Letter concerning the Edinburgh Mint | 83 | 38 | 280 | 28 June 1709 | Commends Robert Millar, encloses a copy of his petition [probably MINT00423 (Mint 19/3/120)] and suggests a bonus payment of 50.||Conveys Allardes' thanks for Newton's advice and help. Is confident of a speedy settlement of the bullion accounts [following the confusion caused by the death of bullion collector Daniel Stewart: see MINT00402, MINT00403, MINT00421 (Mint 19/3/131, 46, 44)].||Printed in NC, 4: 540.||Signed by Seafield. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7084 | MINT00426 | Correspondence relating to Edinburgh Mint funding | 1 | 38 | 447 | 1709 | (a) [After 28 June 1709?] Newton to Seafield. Holograph draft. The London Mint officers have recommended a 60 bonus for Millar and payment of the Scottish commissioners' outstanding fees, but Newton does not know whether the Treasurer has seen their reports yet.||(b) [Summer 1709?] Newton [to Seafield?]. Holograph draft. Suggests the addressee should approach the Treasurer, ideally through the Secretary of State, as soon as the summer vacation is over, requesting clear directives about the settlement of finances at the Edinburgh Mint.||Document (a) printed in NC, 4: 539. The Mint's letter to the Treasury recommending a payment of 60, dated 1 June 1709, is in PRO, Mint 1/8, p. 156. [NC gives 1 June as the date of (a), but it is clearly later and probably a reply to MINT00425 (Mint 19/3/123).]||Document (b) printed in NC, 7: 449-50.||[Note on dating: NC, 7: 450, n.1 suggests summer 1707 or (less probably) 1708 for MINT00426(b). However, this draft is written underneath MINT00426(a), which is certainly later than 1 June 1709 (see note above). See also notes to MINT00427 (Mint 19/3/166).] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7088 | MINT00427 | Recommendations for sorting out the Edinburgh Mint's expenses | 1 | 38 | 637 | Summer 1709 | Finance to cover them should be available from the 'money due [...] from the Collectors of ye Bullion' [presumably meaning Daniel Stewart's executors: see MINT00402, MINT00403, MINT00421 (Mint 19/3/131, 46, 44)] which is now being called in, from coinage duty, and from the annual parliamentary allowance of 1,200. 'I presume my Ld Treasurer will give order about it next winter', but Parliament being now in recess and no full account of the arrears owed by the collectors having been received, it is unlikely anything will be done before then. Suggests the addressee draw up a full account and present it to the Treasurer, ideally through the Secretary of State, after the recess.||Preceded on the same page by a holograph draft of MINT00426(a) (Mint 19/3/164).||Printed in NC, 5: 1-2.||[NC gives the addressee as Lauderdale and suggests this may be a reply to MINT00429 (Mint 19/3/55). But see MINT00426(b) (Mint 19/3/164). Though very different in wording, the two drafts are very similar in purport, and though published in NC as separate letters of separate (conjectural) dates to separate (conjectural) correspondents, it does not seem unlikely that they represent variant drafts of the same thing, especially since both immediately follow (on the same side in both cases) a draft of a letter about Robert Millar [MINT00426(a) (Mint 19/3/164)]. That the letter about Millar is almost certainly to Seafield lends weight to the speculation that this one is as well.] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7091 | MINT00428 | Personal letter | 82 | 38 | 304 | 9 August 1709 | Apologises for the delay in presenting accounts due to severe illness ('my old indisposition of vomiting blood'). Given the state of his health, many are looking to succeed to his post: asks Newton's support for his proposal that it should pass to his son. Though only sixteen, he could act through a deputy at first, and it would be unfair for Allardes' heirs to be deprived of the money still owing to him as master.||Printed in NC, 4: 541.||Signed by Allardes. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7093 | MINT00429 | Deplores the Edinburgh Mint's non-payment of fees and salaries and asks Newton's advice as to how this can be remedied | 84 | 38 | 244 | 10 August 1709 | Printed in NC, 4: 542.||Signed by Lauderdale. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7095 | MINT00430 | 'Accompt due by Her Majtie to George Allardes Master of her Majties Mint for the Coinage in Scotland' | 14 | 38 | 1,346 | November 1709 | Allardes' expense claims March 1705-October 1709 [ie. until his death: presumably this document was drawn up and submitted by or on behalf of his executors].||Another clerical copy in PRO, Mint 1/8, p. 159. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7096 | MINT00431 | Holograph list of entries in MINT00430 (Mint 19/3/51-2) to be deleted or queried | 1 | 38 | 322 | Late 1709 or early 1710. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7097 | MINT00432 | Neater version of MINT00430 (Mint 19/3/51-2) with certain items omitted [but not in all cases those specified in MINT00431 (Mint 19/5/53)] | 1 | 38 | 1,141 | November 1709 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7098 | MINT00433 | Holograph draft balance sheet for the Edinburgh Mint 1704-9 | 1 | 38 | 1,366 | c. 1710 | Draft of a covering letter to the Treasury including notes on discrepancies between English and Scottish weights and summaries of legislation relating to the master's allowance, with queries about whether the poundage is to be based on Scottish or Troy weights, and related calculations. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7099 | MINT00434 | Assessment of the poundage due to the Edinburgh master | 1 | 38 | 1,067 | 1709-10 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7100 | MINT00435 | Holograph memorandum on the amount due to the Scottish moneyers | 1 | 38 | 137 | c. 1710 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7101 | MINT00436 | 'Memoriall for [and apparently by] William Drummond present Warden of Her Majesties Mint att Edinburgh' | 1 | 38 | 1,417 | Late 1709 or early 1710 | Application for the mastership left vacant by the death of George Allardes [in October 1709: see NC, 5: 15, n. 2], with an account of Drummond's service and achievements as warden and copies (in the same hand) of his warrants of appointment. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7103 | MINT00437 | Memorandum concerning Scottish poundage | 1 | 38 | 479 | 14 February 1709 [= 1710] | Describes four possible ways of calculating poundage at the Edinburgh Mint (on account of uncertainties about the respective values of both weights and currency between England and Scotland). Encloses copies of relevant legislation and asks for a decision as to which method should be followed.||Draft of T. 1/120.44, MINT00957, dated 16 February 1709/10 (printed in Shaw, 169-73 and (as two documents) in NC, 5: 14-16). | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7104 | MINT00438 | Holograph draft of MINT00437 (Mint 19/3/17) | 1 | 38 | 340 | c. February 1709 [= 1710] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7105 | MINT00439 | A sheet of holograph calculations relating to weights | 1 | 38 | 54 | 1696-1727 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7106 | MINT00440 | 'Bullion Ballances resting by those Who were Recrs & Collectrs At the Ports proceeding the 1st May 1707' | 1 | 38 | 280 | 2 March 1710 | Account of the balances held by various Scottish customs officers, and computation of the amount outstanding to the Edinburgh master. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7108 | MINT00441 | Edinburgh Mint officers summoned by Council order to the pyx trial in London cannot be excused except by the Council itself, which Newton thinks unlikely | 1 | 38 | 189 | Between 4 and 25 July 1710 | Printed in NC, 5: 57.||[Note on dating: evidently written between the issuing of an order for the 1710 pyx trial and the Treasury's decision (contrary to Newton's expectation) to excuse Montgomerie from attending it: see NC, 5: 57, nn.1 and 5.] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7109 | MINT00442 | Draft indenture for the Edinburgh Mint, requiring conformity with London practice and allowing apprentices to be sent to London for training | 1 | 38 | 8,159 | After 25 July 1710 | [See NC, 5: 58: Treasurer's order, dated 25 July 1710, to draft this indenture, following the appointment of a new master, John Montgomerie, on 22 June.] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7110 | MINT00443 | Allocation of poundage to the various Mint officers in London and Edinburgh, with two copies of a list of Edinburgh salaries and a further draft of MINT00442 (Mint 19/3/81-93) | 1 | 38 | 1,058 | After 25 July 1710 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7111 | MINT00444 | Partial holograph draft of MINT00442 (Mint 19/3/81-93) and list of Edinburgh salaries | 1 | 38 | 235 | After 25 July 1710 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7112 | MINT00445 | Two holograph lists of amendments to be made to MINT00442 (Mint 19/3/81-93) | 1 | 38 | 380 | After 25 July 1710 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7113 | MINT00446 | Holograph draft of four additions to be made to MINT00442 (Mint 19/3/81-93) | 1 | 38 | 426 | After 25 July 1710 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7114 | MINT00447 | Holograph list of editorial amendments and additions to be made to MINT00442 (Mint 19/3/81-93), and queries relating to it | 1 | 38 | 784 | After 25 July 1710 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7115 | MINT00448 | Variant holograph copy of MINT00447 (Mint 19/3/6), largely struck through | 1 | 38 | 893 | After 25 July 1710 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7116 | MINT00449 | List of Edinburgh Mint salaries | 1 | 38 | 170 | After 25 July 1710 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7119 | MINT00450 | Personal recommendation of deputy Edinburgh master Patrick Scott | 85 | 38 | 256 | 2 August 1710 | Printed in NC, 5: 58-9.||Signed by Seafield.||The Scottish Mint officers have set off for a pyx trial in London, among them Scott, whom Seafield recommends to Newton as very honest and capable, and the only one among them concerned to protect the interest of the heirs of the late master, George Allardes. Asks Newton to give him all due assistance. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7120 | MINT00451 | Corrected account of the total bullion brought into the Scottish Mint during the recoinage, with a covering letter containing apologies for errors in the previous account and a repeated enquiry about the allowance for waste | 86 | 38 | 486 | 28 August 1712 | Printed in NC, 5: 331-2; see ibid., 316-18, for Scott's earlier account and enquiry of 26 July 1712. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7123 | MINT00452 | Reply to his query about the permissible level of wastage in melting | 1 | 38 | 722 | 28 January 1713 | On reverse: Newton's sketch of a microscope.||Printed in NC, 4: 536-7, where it is dated April/May 1709 and described as probably to Allardes, and again (without any comment or cross-reference) in NC, 5: 371-3 as 28 January 1713 and to Scott. The latter is clearly correct, as appears from Scott's reply [MINT00453 (Mint 19/1/188)], which supplies the date of this letter. Rough draft in Cambridge University Library Additional Ms. 3965(12), f.362r.||Wastage in copper is higher in Scotland than England due to the fiercer heat of the coal furnaces. For this reason, the Scots were allowed to resume their old practice of adding copper during melting, though no such allowance is made in England [see notes to MINT00387 (Mint 19/1/183)]. Consequently, the waste in Scotland should be proportionately diminished in other respects. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7125 | MINT00453 | Reply to MINT00452 (Mint 19/1/181-2) | 86 | 38 | 985 | 21 March 1713 | Objects to Newton's reference to the London Mint's 'connivance' in allowing the Scots to add copper during melting: the practice is a necessity without which it would be 'next to impossible' to bring out standard silver coin. Detailed account of the different circumstances pertaining in Scotland and why they entail a higher level of wastage. Newton has been maliciously misinformed by the London goldsmiths. Allardes' executors are quibbling about the amount of waste allowed for in the accounts of Scott's late brother [Patrick, deputy master under Allardes]: if they are permitted to disallow as much as they propose, his widow and four children will be plunged into poverty, something Allardes himself would never have allowed to happen.||Printed in NC, 5: 394-6. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7131 | MINT00454 | 'Memoriall Concerning the Mint of Scotland', arguing for a resumption of Scottish coinage, which ceased on 4 August 1710, and an increase in the provision of 1,200 p.a. for the Edinburgh Mint | 78 | 38 | 1,877 | 1714-16? | (a) (Mint 19/3/24) A copy of David Gregory's 1707 report on his re-organisation of the Mint [(MINT00393 (Mint 19/3/173)].||(b) (Mint 19/3/25) 'Schedule of the offices and salaryes of the Officers at the Mint at Edinburgh after setling the said Mint in the same methods of working with the Mint in the Tower': list of the various Mint officers and their salaries and expenses.||(c) (Mint 19/3/26) 'Copy of the Clause Proposed to be Added to the Bill concerning Coynage': draft clause authorising the Treasury to release additional funds to the Edinburgh Mint over and above the already statutory 1,200 p.a. as need shall arise.||(d) (Mint 19/3/27) 'Copy of the Clause in the Act of the 7th of the Queen Concerning the Mint in Scotland': extract of current legislation limiting the Edinburgh Mint's funding to 1,200 p.a.||Another copy of all the above in PRO, T1/185, no. 20. See NC, 6: 264, n.1 for a discussion of the content and dating of this memorandum and the reply at MINT00457 (Mint 19/3/56).||Enclosed as supporting documentation, in the same clerical hand, are the following: | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7132 | MINT00455 | Holograph copy of MINT00454(b) (Mint 19/3/25) | 1 | 38 | 745 | c. 1714 | On reverse: partial draft on the theology of the Ancient Greeks and of the Cabbalists. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7133 | MINT00456 | Seven queries relating to the Edinburgh Mint's 1,200 annual allowance | 1 | 38 | 112 | After 25 July 1710 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7135 | MINT00457 | Response to MINT00454 (Mint 19/3/23-8) | 1 | 38 | 553 | 1715-16 | Dismisses the Edinburgh Mint's claim for extra funding, asserting that it includes spurious expenses and salaries for now-redundant posts, and pleads for special treatment which the London Mint does not receive and so would contravene the Act of Union.||Printed in NC, 6: 263-4. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7136 | MINT00458 | Three partial holograph drafts similar to MINT00457 (Mint 19/3/56) but suggesting a compromise Newton has proposed to the Treasury, raising the Edinburgh Mint's allowance to 1,450 p.a. | 1 | 38 | 856 | c.1715-16? | Third draft printed in NC, 6: 264-5. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7137 | MINT00459 | 'Some Amendments to the Coinage Act' | 1 | 38 | 429 | 1715 | Funds for the Edinburgh Mint should be administered by the master, not the general. Proposes clarification of two clauses in the Coinage Act [of 1715] to ensure conformity between the Edinburgh and London Mints, and to prevent the Scots making unwarranted expense claims to the detriment of the London Mint. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7138 | MINT00460 | Holograph copy of MINT00459 (Mint 19/1/366) | 1 | 38 | 431 | 1715 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7139 | MINT00461 | Draft clause for insertion into the Coinage Act | 1 | 38 | 723 | 1715 | Stipulates distinct sources of income for the English and Scottish Mints and empowers the Treasurer to release public money at his own discretion if either Mint can show the income from coinage duty to be insufficient for its needs. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7140 | MINT00462 | Further variant holograph drafts of MINT00461 (Mint 19/1/378) | 1 | 38 | 6,211 | 1715 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7141 | MINT00463 | Rough holograph notes on Mint income and expenditure, possibly related to MINT00461 (Mint 19/1/378) | 1 | 38 | 158 | 1715? | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7142 | MINT00464 | Holograph list of editorial additions and emendations to be made to the Coinage Act | 1 | 38 | 815 | 1715 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7145 | MINT00465 | Response to the petition of the former Edinburgh bullion clerk William Hamilton, referred by the Treasury to the London Mint | 1 | 38 | 339 | After 26 May 1715 | It appears Hamilton's name was inadvertently left out of the new indenture drawn up at the accession of King George: Newton recommends its re-instatement.||Printed in NC, 6: 226-7.||[Note on dating: replies to a letter of 'May 26th last', and presumably belongs to the first year of George's reign.] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7146 | MINT00466 | Holograph drafts of MINT00465 (Mint 19/3/199) | 1 | 38 | 978 | After 26 May 1715 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7149 | MINT00467 | Protest against preferential treatment for the Edinburgh Mint | 1 | 38 | 236 | 5 September 1717 | Printed in NC, 6: 410-11. Apparently never sent: ibid., 411, n.1.||Signed by Newton and comptroller Martin Bladen.||The Treasury has ordered payment of 1,200 (almost the whole quarterly revenue received under the Coinage Act) to the Edinburgh Mint. London Mint expenditure in the quarter to 29 September will be 1,700, which it has 310 to meet. Requests that either the money be paid to the London Mint instead or provision made from other funds. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7150 | MINT00468 | Holograph draft of royal warrant to Lauderdale, General of the Edinburgh Mint, to settle the payment of salaries and expenses outstanding since Christmas 1714 | 1 | 38 | 550 | [November] 1718 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7151 | MINT00469 | Further holograph draft of MINT00468 (Mint 19/3/146), dated November 1718 | 1 | 38 | 677 | [November] 1718 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7153 | MINT00470 | Response to Lauderdale's request for an advance of 2,400 to the Edinburgh Mint | 1 | 38 | 700 | 14 [altered from 7(?)] October 1718 | Printed in NC, 7: 6-7.||The Edinburgh Mint receives too much as it is: 1,800 should be ample. Suggests Lauderdale should be given personal authority to release money for expenses and salaries, and in the event of his having insufficient funds should pay the former first. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7154 | MINT00471 | Variant holograph drafts of MINT00470 (Mint 19/3/107-8); Mint 19/3/105-6 dated 7 October 1718 | 1 | 38 | 2,390 | Early October 1718 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7155 | MINT00472 | Holograph draft of royal warrant to Lauderdale to settle salaries and expenses as they become due [as suggested in MINT00470 (Mint 19/3/107-8)] | 1 | 38 | 368 | Late 1718 | Followed by a series of calculations. On reverse: Latin notes on the moon's motion, with more calculations, and English notes on the ratio of the English to the French foot. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7158 | MINT00473 | Holograph drafts of various paragraphs of a memorandum on the Edinburgh Mint | 1 | 38 | 912 | Before 20 October 1721 | Coinage duty was not collected properly in Scotland in 1707-10, and not collected at all thereafter. No accounts have been received from the Edinburgh Mint for 12 years. Details of bookkeeping procedure in the London Mint and the importance of harmonising Edinburgh practice with this.||On reverse: fragmentary historical notes in Latin on ancient kings.||[See T. 1/235.47, MINT01008, Newton to Treasury, dated 20 October 1721 (printed in NC, 7: 174-5), in which Newton states 'I hear his Lord[shi]p [Lauderdale] is ready to make up the account'.] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7159 | MINT00474 | In response to a petition from the Edinburgh master, recommends renewal of the indenture of the Edinburgh Mint of 17 November 1718 and the release of 2,100 for the Edinburgh Mint's expenses | 1 | 38 | 209 | 13 September 1723 | Draft of T. 1/244.25, MINT01016 (of the same date, printed in NC, 7: 246). | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7160 | MINT00475 | Holograph draft of MINT00474 (Mint 19/3/198), also dated 13 September 1723 | 1 | 38 | 231 | 13 September 1723 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7161 | MINT00476 | Excuses delays in presenting his accounts by his agent's failure to send him relevant documentation | 84 | 38 | 247 | 27 February 1724 | Printed in NC, 7: 263-4. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7162 | MINT00477 | Holograph extract of Parliamentary act passed under Henry VI authorising the appointment of Mint masters outside London | 1 | 38 | 102 | ca. 1697 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7163 | MINT00478 | Orders for the castle to be used as a mint | 87 | 38 | 174 | 21 July 1696 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7164 | MINT00479 | 'An Accompt of the Deficiency of the Coynage Duty' | 1 | 38 | 1,223 | After 4 November 1696 | Detailed statement of outstanding payments due to the individual country mints for various operations during the recoinage (to 4 November 1696). | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7165 | MINT00480 | Partial holograph accounts for recoinage in the country mints 1696-7 | 1 | 38 | 747 | October 1698 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7166 | MINT00481 | Covering letter for a formulaic statement of accounts for each mint to complete prior to its being closed down [April - September 1698] | 1 | 38 | 555 | 16 April 1698 | Printed in NC, 4: 271-2. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7167 | MINT00482 | Petition for payment up to Michaelmas 1698 and travelling expenses | 88 | 38 | 286 | Early 1699 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7169 | MINT00483 | Report on country mints' accounts | 89 | 38 | 338 | December 1698 | Calendared in NC, 7: 405 (no. X.597).||Expenses and salaries due to the officers of the country mints have all been paid, leaving the London Mint officers depleted. They ask permission to submit accounts for the country mints en bloc, without annual division, 'by reason they are so entangled one year with another, yt it is not possible to distinguish them'. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7170 | MINT00484 | Further clerical copy of MINT00483 (Mint 19/2/475), dated December 1698 | 1 | 38 | 350 | December 1698 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7171 | MINT00485 | Recommends rejection of Charles Fryth's claims for consignments to the Chester Mint: he has already been overpaid 22 by mistake | 1 | 38 | 980 | April 1702? | [Note on dating: replies to a Treasury letter of 30 March 1702.] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7172 | MINT00486 | 'The intended Report of ye Councell of Trade to his Ex[cellen]cie ye Lord Leiut. & Councell of Ireland' | 14 | 38 | 4,296 | 25 March 1673 | Statistics of Irish land, housing, cattle, total wealth, coin and population. Ends by citing a speech made by Sir Thomas Roe in 1640 advising against raising the value of coin in Ireland. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7173 | MINT00487 | 'The Produce of the Revenue of Ireland in Quarters' | 14 | 38 | 359 | After 1688 | Table of quarterly statistics of Irish customs and excise duties 1682-8. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7174 | MINT00488 | Copy of a table of values of foreign coins current in Ireland drawn up by James Hoare, then comptroller, in 1692; short covering letter | 90 | 38 | 307 | c. 1700 | Covering letter printed in Westfall, 593. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7176 | MINT00489 | 'The Case of the Parliament of Ireland' | 1 | 38 | 1,219 | c. 1701 | Summary history of English rule in Ireland since its conquest by Henry II in November 1172. The English legal system was introduced under King John. The origin of the Irish Parliament is disputed, but in any case it derives its authority from the English and so is subordinate to it: acts passed in England are of force in Ireland whether ratified by the Irish Parliament or not. Since the reign of Henry VII, the Irish Parliament has periodically attempted to overturn English legislation but has no legal right to do so, since 'it lies in the breast of an English Parliam[en]t to interpret & declare the meaning extent & force of all the Irish Laws not excepting those by wch they claim any power to them selves'.||[Makes repeated reference to 'Molyn.', ie. William Molyneux, The Case of Ireland's being bound by Acts of Parliament in England, stated (Dublin, 1698), which appears to be the source of most of the historical detail, though Newton's conclusion is diametrically opposite to Molyneux's.] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7178 | MINT00490 | Firm rejection of a proposal to erect a Mint for silver coinage in Dublin | 1 | 38 | 328 | 18 August 1698 | Calendared in CSPD 1700-1702, 329 (a copy of this and numerous other documents relating to proposals for a Mint in Ireland having been sent to the Treasury by James Vernon c. May 1701).||Ireland 'is and ought to be inferior to this Kingdom, and subservient to it's interests'. Such a measure would be to the advantage of Irish and detriment of British trade, and might ultimately lead to Irish secession. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7182 | MINT00491 | On a request from the East India Company to be supplied with two mills and two presses for Fort St. George [in Madras] | 1 | 38 | 617 | c. December 1699 | Mint can see no objection, but advise asking the opinions of the Council of Trade and Attorney General on the economic wisdom and the legality of the proposal.||On reverse: holograph list of twelve queries to be taken into consideration when deciding the matter.||Printed in NC, 7: 413-14.||[Note on dating: replies to a letter of 28 November 1699.] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7183 | MINT00492 | Further holograph draft of MINT00491 (Mint 19/1/509) | 1 | 38 | 419 | c. December 1699 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7185 | MINT00493 | Response to a further proposal by the Irish Chancellor for a Dublin Mint | 1 | 38 | 736 | c. 4 June 1701 | Printed in NC, 4: 380-82; see also NC, 7: 422, no. 643 and Craig, NATM, 47-8. Calendared in CSPD 1700-1702, 399, from a copy dated 4 June 1701.||Uniformity of coinage between the two countries is strongly recommended, and it might be advisable to set up a temporary Mint in Ireland for eighteen months or two years to effect a recoinage. In the long term, however, it is more economical to mint Ireland's money in London, and a permanent Mint in Ireland might have adverse effects on English trade. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7186 | MINT00494 | Holograph drafts of MINT00493 (Mint 19/2/214-15) | 1 | 38 | 3,537 | c. 4 June 1701 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7187 | MINT00495 | Personal letter to the same general effect as MINT00493 (Mint 19/2/214-15), but promising all possible assistance if a Mint in Ireland is decided on | 1 | 38 | 288 | c. 5 June 1701 | Calendared in CSPD 1700-1702, 400, from a copy dated 5 June 1701 (CSPD inexplicably refers to Newton as warden of the Mint: he had been master since the end of 1699). | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7189 | MINT00496 | 'Proposals for coyning half pence and farthings of Copper for the English Plantations in America' | 1 | 38 | 217 | c. 9 July 1701 | Draft of PRO, T1/75, no. 13, dated 9 July 1701. Written in response to a proposal by Samuel Davis for supplying copper coin to the plantations: see Craig, NATM, 48.||Proposal for the London Mint to produce distinctively stamped coins. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7190 | MINT00497 | The Earl of Derby [Governor of the Isle of Man] has asked for Manx currency to be coined in the Mint: Mint disapprove of coining foreign money, but see no objection to allowing the moneyers and engravers to make medals for him | 1 | 38 | 171 | 25 June 1708 | Printed in NC, 4: 520-1. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7191 | MINT00498 | Holograph draft of MINT00497 (Mint 19/2/456) | 1 | 38 | 180 | 25 June 1708 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7196 | MINT00499 | Report on foreign coin in Ireland, with Newton's comments on it | 1 | 38 | 1,077 | 8 January 1711/12 | (a) 8 January 1711 [= 1712]. Dublin Privy Council to Treasury. Copy in Newton's hand. Certain foreign coins are accepted as current in Ireland, but have not been officially proclaimed as such: accordingly, people who counterfeit them cannot be prosecuted for high treason. Request a Council order to rectify this, specifying the coins and their values.||(b) On reverse: 3 March 1711/12. Newton to Treasurer. Holograph draft. Assessment of the foregoing, correcting several of the statistics quoted. Complains that gold is over-valued relative to silver in England and the same is going to happen in Ireland.||Both letters printed from this copy in NC, 5: 238-40 (Council's letter) and 245-6 (Newton's letter).||Copies of both letters in PRO, T14/9, pp. 257-9 (calendared in CTB, 26, part 2 (1712): 181-2). Several drafts of Newton's letter in ULC, Additional Ms. 3965, ff.281r-282v.||Newton's letter printed from the Treasury copy in Prior, Observations, 22-4, in Shaw, 176-9, and in McCulloch, Select Tracts, 269-71. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7197 | MINT00500 | Holograph drafts of MINT00499(b) (Mint 19/2/236v) | 1 | 38 | 2,727 | Jan. 1712 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7198 | MINT00501 | Regarding recent legislation making certain foreign coins current in Ireland, a new proclamation with provision for worn coins is requested, the original proclamation having been destroyed in a fire at the Council chambers | 91 | 38 | 351 | 7 June 1712 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7200 | MINT00502 | Refers MINT00501 (Mint 19/2/232-3) to the Mint and orders a report on it | 70 | 38 | 493 | 16 June 1712 | On reverse: holograph copy of MINT00501 (Mint 19/2/232-3).||Treasury's letter printed in NC, 5: 309. Another copy in PRO, T27/20, p. 214. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7203 | MINT00503 | Two reports on foreign coin in Ireland | 1 | 38 | 1,329 | June 1712 | (a) (Mint 19/2/242) 23 June 1712. Newton to Treasury. Holograph draft of the report ordered in MINT00502 (Mint 19/2/241), suggesting numerous adjustments to the coinage values and weights stated in MINT00501 (Mint 19/2/232-3) and some to those stated in the proclamation on circulation of foreign coin.||(b) (Mint 19/2/243) Holograph draft memorandum: 'The weight & value of forreign coins in Ireland', listing Newton's suggested figures for all the coins in question.||Printed in NC, 5: 309-12. MINT00503(a) is also printed in Prior, Observations, 24-6, McCulloch, Select Tracts, 271-3, and Shaw, 179-81, but the document from which these were taken - presumably the official version of the report - seems to have gone astray (see NC, 5, 312, n.1). | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7204 | MINT00504 | Further holograph draft of MINT00503 (Mint 19/2/242-3) | 1 | 38 | 1,101 | June 1712 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7205 | MINT00505 | Extended holograph draft of MINT00503 (Mint 19/2/242-3) | 1 | 38 | 2,247 | June 1712 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7206 | MINT00506 | Partial holograph draft of MINT00503 (Mint 19/2/242-3) | 1 | 38 | 2,812 | June 1712 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7207 | MINT00507 | Calculations of the weight and value of the new louis d'or and louis d'argent which are to be made current in Ireland | 1 | 38 | 352 | May 1714 | Draft of Mint 1/7.69, MINT01148 (dated May 1714 and printed in NC, 6: 147); see NC, 6: 112-13 for the Treasury's order for this report, Mint 1/7.67, MINT01147 (dated 29 April). | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7208 | MINT00508 | Treasury warrant to William Wood to strike copper coin for Ireland in Bristol | 1 | 38 | 298 | 23 August 1722 | Signed by R. Walpole, George Baillie and Charles Turner. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7211 | MINT00509 | In support of a protest by the Corporation of Moneyers against Wood's licence to coin [MINT00508 (Mint 19/2/460-61)] | 1 | 38 | 299 | 21 or 29 [date altered and not clearly legible] January 1722/3 | Argues that instead he should supply blanks to be struck in the Mint.||Printed in NC, 7: 217-18.||[The moneyers' protest is in PRO, T1/244, no. 7 (f.17).] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7212 | MINT00510 | Holograph draft of MINT00509 (Mint 19/2/464) | 1 | 38 | 381 | January 1723 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7213 | MINT00511 | Following a protest by the Irish Parliament against Wood's licence to coin, asks Newton to send an expert to Bristol to examine his coins | 70 | 38 | 240 | 10 April 1724 | Printed in NC, 7: 272-3; another clerical copy in PRO, T27/23, p. 469. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7214 | MINT00512 | In reply to MINT00511 (Mint 19/2/458), suggests it would be preferable and cheaper for Wood's pyx to be brought to London for testing, though he will send a man to Bristol if the Treasury prefers | 1 | 38 | 317 | 13 April 1724 | Draft of T. 1/247.39, MINT01019 (of the same date, printed in Shaw, 198-9 and NC, 7: 273-4). | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7215 | MINT00513 | Further holograph draft of MINT00512 (Mint 19/2/471), also dated 13 April 1724 | 1 | 38 | 313 | April 1724 | Draft of T. 1/247.39, MINT01019 (of the same date, printed in Shaw, 198-9 and NC, 7: 273-4). | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7216 | MINT00514 | Two rough holograph drafts of MINT00512 (Mint 19/2/471), with a fragment on Greek myth at the bottom of the page | 1 | 38 | 787 | April 1724 | On reverse: holograph draft proposal for a pay rise for the porter of the London Mint to bring him into line with the English clerks [see note to MINT00094 (Mint 19/1/220)]. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7217 | MINT00515 | Detailed report on the trial at London of Wood's copper coinage for Ireland, which was found satisfactory, with an account of the amount of Wood's coinage up to 28 March 1724 | 92 | 38 | 727 | 27 April 1724 | Printed in NC, 7: 276-8; clerical copies in PRO, T1/248, no. 13 (ff.77-8) (signed by Newton, Southwell and Scrope) and in Yale University Library. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7218 | MINT00516 | Holograph draft of MINT00515 (Mint 19/2/467), with notes | 1 | 38 | 732 | April 1724 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7219 | MINT00517 | Table of the amount coined by Wood 4 June 1723 to 28 March 1724 | 14 | 38 | 252 | After 28 March 1724 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7220 | MINT00518 | Report on the assay and weighing of five new denominations of Portuguese gold coin and recommendation of the values they should pass at in Ireland | 1 | 38 | 447 | c.10 November 1725 | Draft of PRO, T1/253, no. 48, (dated 10 November 1725 and printed in Shaw, 203-4). This version printed in NC, 7: 340-41. See also NC, 7: 333-4, for the Treasury's order for this report. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7222 | MINT00519 | Holograph draft of MINT00518 (Mint 19/2/229), followed by numerous calculations and a paragraph on interpreting the chronology of the Book of Revelation | 1 | 38 | 1,409 | [c.10 November 1725.] | Needham's letter printed in NC, 7: 318-20.||On reverse of an original letter, dated 16 May 1725, from George Needham to Newton, petitioning for Newton's advice or intervention on behalf of Robert Newton (allegedly a relative of Isaac), whose estate has been unlawfully possessed by two cousins who are wrecking it. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7223 | MINT00520 | Holograph calculations of Irish coinage values | 1 | 38 | 227 | c. 1712 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7224 | MINT00521 | Fragmentary holograph notes on coinage under Elizabeth | 1 | 38 | 181 | c. 1712 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7225 | MINT00522 | Holograph notes on Mint output half-weekly 1 December 1660 to 30 May 1662, and list of dates of warrants to produce hammered and milled coin | 1 | 38 | 605 | c. 1712 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7226 | MINT00523 | 'An Accompt of Gold and Silver Monies Coyned in the Reigns of their severall Majesties successively in their Mynt within the Tower of London from the year 1659: to the 31th of December 1691: Included' | 14 | 38 | 853 | Early 1692 | Annual coinage statistics. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7227 | MINT00524 | Holograph copy of MINT00523 (Mint 19/2/295) | 1 | 38 | 768 | after 13 April 1696 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7228 | MINT00525 | Memorandum: 'Plate Melted att the Tower anno 1696' | 1 | 38 | 223 | c. 1697 | A brief assessment attested by Robert Rayner and examined by John Seacroft. Followed by fragmentary notes on the assessment in Newton's hand. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7229 | MINT00526 | Holograph draft table of monthly coinage in 1697 | 1 | 38 | 306 | after March 1698 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7230 | MINT00527 | Holograph fragment of MINT00526 (Mint 19/5/55) | 1 | 38 | 98 | 1696-1727 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7231 | MINT00528 | 'Accompt Of Gold & Silver monies coyned in the Tower of London & ye five Country Mints from the first of Ian. 1695 to the 1st of Ian. 1698 excluded' | 1 | 38 | 134 | Early 1698 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7232 | MINT00529 | Another holograph draft of MINT00528 (Mint 19/2/270) | 1 | 38 | 176 | Early 1698 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7233 | MINT00530 | Statistics of recoinage in London 1 February 1695/6 to 21 October 1698 | 1 | 38 | 598 | 21 October 1698 | On reverse: copies of two memoranda (one in Newton's hand, dated 18 January 1697/8, one clerical, dated 31 December 1697) by Israel Hayes, comptroller of the Exeter Mint, concerning his accounts. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7234 | MINT00531 | Rather than see it dismantled, the Moneyers' Corporation are willing to buy back the equipment they supplied for the recoinage in London and elsewhere for twice its scrap value | 1 | 38 | 186 | c. June 1699 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7235 | MINT00532 | 'Account of the Silver Monies Coind in his Majestie's Mint In the Tower' | 1 | 38 | 205 | c. 1700 | Summary of silver coinage 20 July 1660 to 31 December 1699. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7236 | MINT00533 | Continuation of the annual coinage statistics at MINT00523 (Mint 19/2/295) to 1699 | 14 | 38 | 467 | c. 1700 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7239 | MINT00534 | Query regarding the master's liability for pyx trial results | 1 | 38 | 530 | c. 1700? | Another draft at MINT00262 (Mint 19/2/627).||Formerly, the master coined 62s. from every pound weight of silver brought into the Mint, and paid 60s. to the supplier and 2s. to the Crown. If at the pyx trial a pound weight of coin was not found exactly equal to 62s., any surplus had to be paid by the master to the Crown, and any deficit was restored by the Crown to the master. Since the last Coinage Act this system has been changed and the full 62s. is to be paid to the suppliers: nevertheless, the statute relating to the mutual liability of master and Crown remains in force. Newton queries this anomaly.||On reverse, in another hand: fragment on Norwich coinage. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7240 | MINT00535 | 'The Comptrolment Roll': detailed table of the amount of gold and silver coined in the London and (where relevant) the country mints in each year from 1659 to 1700 | 1 | 38 | 3,037 | after December 1700 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7241 | MINT00536 | 'An Inventory of the Plate and other things delivered into the Trea[su]ry of the Mint by the Honble Her Majesty's Com[missione]rs for Prizes' | 1 | 38 | 256 | 15 February 1702/3 | List of the Mint's share of Vigo booty. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7242 | MINT00537 | Receipt for Vigo plate | 1 | 38 | 86 | 31 May 1703 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7243 | MINT00538 | Proposal by a Mr Eyres of Southwark to melt down unserviceable brass guns from the Vigo booty and extract fine copper for the Mint | 1 | 38 | 108 | c. April 1704 | Commented on in NC, 7: 433 (no. X.672). | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7244 | MINT00539 | Report on the coining of a consignment of gold from New England, with details of the quality of the metal and the expenses incurred in receiving it | 1 | 38 | 306 | 4 March 1705/6 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7246 | MINT00540 | Original letter, written and signed by Peyton, informing Newton of the premium price for silver coin and plate | 93 | 38 | 464 | 14 April 1709 | On reverse: partial holograph draft by Newton about attitudes to the Trinity of early Church Fathers, and two calculations.||Peyton's note printed in NC 7: 472. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7248 | MINT00541 | Holograph notes toward legislation on the purchase of plate for coinage | 1 | 38 | 289 | Before 1 May 1711 | Proposal that Mint receipts should be accepted in lieu of cash as payment of government loans.||[This legislation was passed on 1 May 1711: see MINT00543 (Mint 19/2/508).] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7249 | MINT00542 | Rougher holograph drafts of MINT00541 (Mint 19/2/550) | 1 | 38 | 999 | Before 1 May 1711 | On reverse of Mint 19/2/547: notes on weights and values of various foreign coins. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7250 | MINT00543 | Copy of royal warrant to the Mint to receive plate at premium rates as specified in the Parliamentary ruling of 1 May 1711, issue receipts for it, and melt it at once into shillings and sixpences to be paid into the Exchequer | 1 | 38 | 380 | 10 May 1711 | Printed in NC, 5: 126-7 (which erroneously states that there is a further copy at Mint 19/2/539: it is in fact at Mint 19/2/541 (MINT00544)). For the Parliamentary ruling of 1 May, see Journal of the House of Commons, 16 (1803): 623. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7251 | MINT00544 | Another clerical copy of MINT00543 (Mint 19/2/508) | 1 | 38 | 381 | 10 May 1711 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7252 | MINT00545 | Holograph drafts of MINT00543 (Mint 19/2/508) | 1 | 38 | 954 | May 1711 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7253 | MINT00546 | Partial and variant holograph draft of MINT00543 (Mint 19/2/508) | 1 | 38 | 147 | May 1711 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7254 | MINT00547 | Partial holograph draft of MINT00543 (Mint 19/2/508) | 1 | 38 | 102 | May 1711 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7256 | MINT00548 | Order to accept no more plate unless the vendors sign a guarantee that they do not expect to be able to use the receipt as a subscription to the forthcoming public loan | 70 | 38 | 115 | 14 May 1711 | Printed in NC, 5: 128-9.||[Written in response to the Mint's letter of the same day (PRO, T1/133, no. 74, printed in NC, 5: 127-8). See Craig, NATM, 80.] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7257 | MINT00549 | 'About' 39,281 worth of plate was received on 11, 12 and 14 May combined, besides some 6,000 worth yet to be assessed | 1 | 38 | 149 | 15 May 1711 | Printed in NC, 5: 129. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7258 | MINT00550 | Two holograph drafts of queries arising out of the lack of provision for payment for plate received after 14 May 1711, with a summary of the relevant legislation | 1 | 38 | 559 | Soon after 14 May 1711 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7259 | MINT00551 | 'A method proposed of taking in the Plate' | 1 | 38 | 319 | c. June 1711 | Suggests rules for receipt of plate and its transmission through the Mint. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7260 | MINT00552 | Further holograph drafts of MINT00551 (Mint 19/2/528) | 1 | 38 | 636 | c. June 1711 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7262 | MINT00553 | In view of the non-acceptability of Mint receipts post-14 May for the public loan [see MINT00548 (Mint 19/2/543)], what provision is to be made for the vendors? | 1 | 38 | 531 | Mid-June 1711 | On reverse: notes for MINT00554 (Mint 19/2/516).||Printed in NC, 5: 165. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7263 | MINT00554 | 'An Account of the Wrought Plate received into her Majestys Mint in the Tower of London' | 1 | 38 | 256 | After 19 June 1711 | Table of plate received in the periods 11-14 May, 15 May to 19 June, and since 19 June. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7264 | MINT00555 | Two holograph drafts of MINT00554 (Mint 19/2/516) | 1 | 38 | 453 | After 19 June 1711 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7265 | MINT00556 | Holograph notes for MINT00554 (Mint 19/2/516) | 1 | 38 | 928 | After 19 June 1711 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7266 | MINT00557 | Covering letter for MINT00554 (Mint 19/2/516) with explanatory notes | 1 | 38 | 573 | After 19 June 1711 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7269 | MINT00558 | Holograph draft memorandum on recent legislation concerning the purchase of plate at a premium by the Mint and the validity of Mint receipts for payments to the government | 1 | 38 | 1,003 | Between 19 June and 24 July 1711 | Draft of T. 1/135.36, MINT00965 (printed in NC, 5: 175-7, and partially in Shaw, 173-6. NC, 5 appends the receipt and disclaimer, which do not appear in the Treasury version, from this document).||Proposal that the Mint pay 5s. per ounce on account for plate received after 14 May 1711. Drafts of authorisation for such payment and of the receipt and disclaimer to be signed by vendors.||[Note on dating: refers to legislation of 19 June 1711; Attorney General Edward Northey responded to the document on 24 July 1711 (NC, 5: 177).] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7272 | MINT00559 | Holograph draft memorandum on disputes between Newton and the warden [Craven Peyton], particularly the warden's opposition to Newton's proposal to pay vendors of plate 5s. per ounce on account [see MINT00558 (Mint 19/2/539-40)] | 1 | 38 | 641 | c. 28 July 1711 | Printed in NC, 5: 180-81; see Craig, NATM, 79-81.||The warden insists vendors should 'deliver up their receipts upon payment of what the plate produced & take certificates for the remainder', but the vendors prefer Newton's solution.||[Note on dating: must post-date the Treasury meeting of 27 July 1711, and presumably predates the royal warrant of 30 July (which is what Newton appears to be angling for): see MINT00563 (Mint 19/2/522) and NC, 5: 181, n.1.] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7273 | MINT00560 | Further holograph drafts of MINT00559 (Mint 19/2/537) | 1 | 38 | 1,568 | c. 28 July 1711 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7274 | MINT00561 | Summarises the history of the plate-collection and requests a warrant to pay the suppliers at least some of what is owed to them | 1 | 38 | 284 | Before 30 July 1711 | Followed by notes on the sweep of some parcels of coins. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7276 | MINT00562 | Further holograph drafts of MINT00561 (Mint 19/2/561) | 1 | 38 | 827 | Before 30 July 1711 | On reverse of Mint 19/2/559: two variant drafts of one of its sentences.||On reverse of Mint 19/2/563: historical notes on the admission of officers or believers to the Church by laying on of hands, and numerous calculations. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7277 | MINT00563 | Holograph draft of a royal warrant authorising payment to vendors of 5s. an ounce with the balance to follow | 1 | 38 | 776 | Before 30 July 1711. | [A warrant was issued on 30 July 1711 in almost exactly the terms drafted by Newton: PRO, T52/25, p. 75 (printed in NC, 5: 182-3).] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7278 | MINT00564 | Further holograph draft of MINT00563 (Mint 19/2/522) | 1 | 38 | 357 | Before 30 July 1711. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7284 | MINT00565 | Holograph draft of a royal warrant authorising payment of the balance | 1 | 38 | 414 | 31 July 1711 | (a) two draft clauses (one deleted) to the effect that the money due to Newton for paying off the receipts will be met from the civil list;||(b) a draft clause stating that the shortfall on coinage from premium plate will be met from coinage duty;||(c) a minute to the same effect as (a) above with the addition that at Newton's request this may be paid in the form of tin to an equivalent value.||Draft warrant printed in NC, 5: 186, and the minute at (c) in NC, 5: 178-9 (as the second part of Letter 859).||Followed by:||[Note on dating: the draft warrant refers to the warrant of 30 July 1711 [see notes to MINT00563 (Mint 19/2/522)] as having been issued 'the 30th Instant', which (unless Newton had momentarily forgotten that July only has 31 days) means the draft must have been written on the 31st. NC, 5: 178, n. 1 argues that the notes (a) - (c) must predate the warrant of 30 July since they do not refer to it, but there seems no very obvious reason why they should refer to it: the fact that they are written below this draft warrant (of 31 July) suggests rather that they are either contemporary with it or later.] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7285 | MINT00566 | Treasurer's authorisation for the payments described in MINT00565 (Mint 19/2/518) | 1 | 38 | 164 | August 1711 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7286 | MINT00567 | Holograph draft of MINT00566 (Mint 19/2/555) | 1 | 38 | 178 | August 1711 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7288 | MINT00568 | Holograph drafts of legislation to recompense the Mint for the fact that the money coined from premium plate came to less than the amount spent on the plate: the shortfall is calculated at various figures from 1,813.0s.8d. to 5,168.6s.4d | 1 | 38 | 2,799 | Mid-1711 | Also on Mint 19/2/557: notes for MINT00554 (Mint 19/2/516). On reverse of Mint 19/2/558: fragmentary note on the defeat of the Goths by Belisarius in 536 AD and a calculation.||Mint 19/2/507 printed in NC, 5: 178, where it is described as a previous draft of MINT00565(c). | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7290 | MINT00569 | Coinage accounts 1713-1715 | 1 | 38 | 716 | c. 25 March 1715 | Entitled 'An Account of the Gold & Silver coyned at his Maty's Mint in the Tower of London from Lady day [25 March] 1713 to Lady day 1715, & of the Gold & Silver remaining in the Tower in order for coynage at Lady day 1715, & of the Denominations & species in wch the said Gold & Silver were brought into the Tower'.||On reverse of Mint 19/2/268: notes on the relative values of silver and gold in England and France. Mint 19/2/269 also features four variant versions of one sentence which appear to represent Newton practising different styles of handwriting. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7291 | MINT00570 | Incomplete holograph drafts of MINT00569 (Mint 19/2/268-9) | 1 | 38 | 1,251 | c. 25 March 1715 | On reverse of Mint 19/2/255: calculations. On reverse of Mint 19/5/33: partial holograph draft of a theological essay on 'repentance from dead works' (i.e. 'idolatry ambition covetousness & unchastity'). | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7292 | MINT00571 | 'An Account of the moneys coyned annually in the Tower' | 38 | 390 | 6 April 1715 | Table of gold and silver coinage each year 1696-1714, with notes on the provenance of the metal used. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7293 | MINT00572 | Holograph drafts relating to MINT00571 (Mint 19/2/262) | 1 | 38 | 685 | April 1715 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7294 | MINT00573 | 'An Account of the Gold and Silver monys coyned yearly, in the Mint within the Tower of London from the year 1659 to Christmas 170 [sic]' | 14 | 38 | 1,050 | End of 1715. | Table of coinage, in fact running from 1659 to 1715. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7295 | MINT00574 | Holograph draft of MINT00573 (Mint 19/2/256) | 1 | 38 | 897 | End of 1715. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7297 | MINT00575 | Reply to an order for an account of gold and silver coined since Christmas 1702 | 1 | 38 | 369 | 23 November 1717 | Printed in NC, 6: 422-3.||Reports on the quantities coined, with a breakdown of the sources of the silver, and on progress with making puncheons and dies for the new copper coinage. Some experimentation is still needed to determine the best way of preparing the copper now to be used, as the workers are only used to dealing with coarser varieties which require less sophisticated treatment. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7298 | MINT00576 | Clerical copy of MINT00575 (Mint 19/2/245), returned to Newton by Treasury Secretary Lowndes 21 December 1717 | 1 | 38 | 404 | 23 November 1717 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7299 | MINT00577 | Holograph draft of letter from Newton to Treasury Secretary Lowndes 21 December 1717 (MINT00575 (Mint 19/2/245)) and some religious notes | 1 | 38 | 1,159 | before 21 December 1717 | Followed by theological notes related to those at MINT00570 (Mint 19/5/33), and preceded by a series of calculations. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7300 | MINT00578 | Table of coinage 1702-17, obviously connected and probably sent with MINT00575 (Mint 19/2/245) | 1 | 38 | 127 | Nov. 1717 | Printed in NC, 6: 423-4. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7301 | MINT00579 | Table of gold and silver coined 1696-1717 | 1 | 38 | 278 | 20 January 1717/8 | Printed in NC, 6: 430-31 and Rigaud, Correspondence, 2: 434. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7302 | MINT00580 | Incomplete holograph drafts of MINT00579 (Mint 19/2/263) | 1 | 38 | 688 | January 1717/8 | On reverse of Mint 19/2/253: holograph notes on silver money coined from the beginning of Elizabeth's reign to the end of James II's (1558-1685). | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7303 | MINT00581 | Clerical copy of the notes on silver coinage in MINT00580 (Mint 19/2/253v) | 1 | 38 | 96 | January 1717/8 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7304 | MINT00582 | Holograph fragment of a report on the Mint officers' inspection of the silver recovered from a shipwreck off the Isle of Mayo, advising that the Mint has all the facilities necessary to deal with it and there is no need to set up a new office | 1 | 38 | 138 | c. 5 December 1721 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7305 | MINT00583 | Holograph fragment of an account for the Mint's receipt of silver recovered from the shipwreck off Mayo | 1 | 38 | 73 | c. 5 December 1721 | Official report, dated 5 December 1721 and signed by Newton and Treasury officer John Sydenham, in T. 1/235.66, MINT01011 (printed in NC, 7: 181-2 as an appendix to Letter 1383; see also NC, 7: 176-7 for further background details). | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7307 | MINT00584 | Report on gold from the West Indies brought to the Mint by the South Sea Company | 90 | 38 | 384 | 6 September 1726 | Haynes has returned four bad ingots for refinement, and considers another seven ingots suspect. The Company insists they are sound. Requests a trial in the presence of Newton and the Company's refiner and agent.||Printed in NC, 7: 352-3. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7308 | MINT00585 | Rough holograph notes of recoinage statistics | 1 | 38 | 204 | Early 1700 | On reverse: note on the value of gold coin as fixed in earlier indentures. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7309 | MINT00586 | 'Charges of receiving melting and standarding the Plate' | 1 | 38 | 169 | c. 1711 | List of costs of the various operations involved. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7310 | MINT00587 | Holograph fragment on the expenses of the bullion suppliers | 1 | 38 | 33 | c. 1713-1714 | On reverse: holograph calculations. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7311 | MINT00588 | Holograph memorandum deprecating a new alloy of silver and zinc in unknown proportions | 1 | 38 | 89 | c. 1713-1714 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7313 | MINT00589 | Response to a petition from Abel Slaney and partners to coin a further 700 tons of halfpence and farthings | 1 | 38 | 408 | 13 July 1703 | Printed in NC, 4: 408-9. Slaney's proposals are in PRO, T1/85, no. 141 (18 May 1703) and T1/86, no. 91 (6 July 1703).||Recommends returning responsibility for copper coinage exclusively to the Mint (as before 1694, when it began to be farmed out to private coiners). There is in any case no demand for such a large quantity of copper. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7314 | MINT00590 | Draft of MINT00589 (Mint 19/2/301), with amendments in another hand, and signed by the Mint Board | 1 | 38 | 513 | 1 July 1703 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7315 | MINT00591 | Unfinished variant holograph draft of MINT00589 (Mint 19/2/301) | 1 | 38 | 239 | July 1703 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7316 | MINT00592 | Response to petitions to coin copper from Slaney's partners Thomas Rinda [Renda], Edward Ambrose, Daniel Barton, William Shepherd, N. Shepherd and George Freeman: refer to the advice given in MINT00589 (Mint 19/2/301) to grant no more such private licences | 1 | 38 | 510 | 5 April 1705 | Another copy of the same date in T. 1/94.8, MINT00948 (printed in NC, 4: 442-4). | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7317 | MINT00593 | Application for a licence to supply the Mint with copper, with details of how best to organise the work if this is granted | 94 | 38 | 144 | 30 December 1707 | Calendared in NC, 7: 456 (no. X.734). | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7320 | MINT00594 | Report on copper coinage schemes | 1 | 38 | 611 | Late April 1708? | Hopes to put an end to proposals for new copper coinage. The nation is sufficiently stocked with copper for two or three years yet and then 40 tons will be enough. Specifies the quality of copper to be used and the hammer test for verifying it. The Mint can undertake the coinage more cheaply than any private contractor.||Preceded by a holograph draft of MINT00403 (Mint 19/3/46).||[Conjectural dating on the assumption this document was written not long after MINT00403, backed by the fact that this was precisely the time when Newton was being most pestered by unwelcome copper coinage proposals.] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7321 | MINT00595 | Holograph notes on parliamentary proceedings relating to copper coinage 1694-1708 | 1 | 38 | 514 | April 1708 or later | Tin farthings and halfpence, being below the intrinsic value and easily counterfeited, were recalled in 1694 and replaced with coin of English copper. Complaints against the patentees who undertook the recoinage were rejected by a Commons committee in April 1696. Copper coinage was stopped for a year 1696-7 but proposals for further stoppages 1698-9 and 1699-1700 did not pass. On 1 April 1708 the inhabitants of Southwark delivered a petition against a further new coinage, complaining that they were 'loaded with great quantities' of halfpence and farthings. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7323 | MINT00596 | Response to a proposal by one Mr Palmer to coin 700 tons of copper | 1 | 38 | 337 | 13 December 1710 | Printed in NC, 5: 81-2.||Repeats (in part verbatim) the advice given seven years earlier in MINT00589 (Mint 19/2/301) against granting private licences. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7324 | MINT00597 | 'Moneyers' proposals for Coining copper' | 1 | 38 | 68 | 9 March 1710/11 | Tender to produce unmilled copper coin for a charge of 3¾d. per pound weight. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7325 | MINT00598 | Clerical copy of MINT00597 (Mint 19/2/426) with an annotation by Newton | 68 | 38 | 71 | 9 March 1710/11 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7327 | MINT00599 | In response to a Treasury order, supplies a summary of all the proposals for licences to coin copper made since the accession of Queen Anne [1702] | 1 | 38 | 1,399 | December 1712 | Another copy in the same hand, dated December 1712, in Mint 1/7.56-8, MINT01135 (printed in NC, 5: 357-61 and in C. Wilson Peck, English Copper, Tin and Bronze Coins in the British Museum, 1558-1958 (London, 1964), 608-10).||Repeats the advice given in the case of each application that coining should only be undertaken by Mint commissioners answerable to the government, so that the quantity of coinage and quality of coining can be regulated, and the intrinsic value of the coins kept as close as practically possible to their face value. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7328 | MINT00600 | Holograph draft of MINT00599 (Mint 19/2/404-5) | 1 | 38 | 1,244 | December 1712 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7331 | MINT00601 | 'Considerations about the Coynage of Copper Moneys' | 1 | 38 | 630 | c. 1713-1714 | 18-point memorandum (but point 17 is left blank). 700 tons of copper coin at most is enough for England, of which there is already over three quarters in circulation. Recommendations on quantity to be coined, type of metal used and denominations released. Coinage should be undertaken exclusively by the Mint, and should cover its own costs, with any surplus profit to be disposed of at the Queen's pleasure.||Printed in NC, 5: 415-6.||[Note on dating: obviously before Queen Anne's death in 1714 and possibly related to (in the event unrealised) plans for copper coinage in 1713: see NC, 5: 416, n. 1, and Craig, NATM, 96-8.] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7332 | MINT00602 | Further holograph draft of MINT00601 (Mint 19/2/352) | 1 | 38 | 613 | c. 1713-1714 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7333 | MINT00603 | Another holograph draft of MINT00601 (Mint 19/2/352), adding details of the hammer test and calculations of costs | 1 | 38 | 764 | c. 1713-1714 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7334 | MINT00604 | 'Considerations about the coinage of copper moneys' | 1 | 38 | 746 | c. 1713? | Broadly similar memorandum to MINT00601 (Mint 19/2/352), but concentrating solely on details of coinage practice and financial arrangements, without any discussion of the quantity to be coined, and with several discrepancies in the figures quoted. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7337 | MINT00605 | Response to John Pery's [Perry's] application to coin copper | 1 | 38 | 762 | After 12 February 1713 | Printed in NC, 6: 51-2 (which dates it c. December 1713 but gives no suggestion as to why Newton should be supposed to have taken ten months to reply to the referral).||There is very little demand for copper coin at present, and when it is wanted it should be made entirely in the Mint. Remarks on minting techniques and guards against counterfeiting, and advice on quantities to be coined.||[This application was referred to the Mint on 12 February 1713: CTB, 27, part 2 (1713): 118-19.] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7338 | MINT00606 | Five holograph drafts of MINT00605 (Mint 19/2/306) | 1 | 38 | 2,360 | After 12 February 1713 | Also on Mint 19/2/432: holograph draft recommendation of Charles Brattell for assay master [see MINT00081 (Mint 19/1/93)]. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7339 | MINT00607 | 'Monyrs Proposall Humbly Offered to the Officers of Her Majts Mint for Coyning Copper' | 1 | 38 | 277 | 6 June 1713 | Tender to coin copper at a charge of 4 1/2 d. per pound weight, plus 100 expenses for machinery. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7340 | MINT00608 | Further to an oral enquiry, explains the hammer test of copper and gives a detailed account of the costs involved in coining | 1 | 38 | 1,008 | 22 January 1713/4 | Draft of PRO, Mint 1/7, pp. 60-61 (printed in NC, 6: 55-7). | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7342 | MINT00609 | Report on a proposal by Charles Tunnah and William Dale to coin 1,000 tons of halfpence and farthings from an artificial metal similar to gold | 1 | 38 | 395 | 23 January 1713/14 | Advise rejection of the bid, since such a metal is likely to be very useful to counterfeiters, there is no way of testing its intrinsic value, and nothing like 1,000 tons of extra copper money is needed anyway.||Draft of T. 1/172.25, MINT00981 (printed in Shaw, 186-7, where it is misdated 27 January, and NC, 6: 58-9). Another draft at MINT00893(b) (Mint 19/2/334-5). Tunnah's and Dale's proposal is also in Shaw, 188-9. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7343 | MINT00610 | Petitions for a licence to coin 180,000 in copper and criticises Newton's specimen copper coins as being made of inferior copper and given a high artificial gloss which will soon wear off | 95 | 38 | 420 | 4 March 1713/14 | [See T. 27/21.151, MINT01046, for the Treasury's referral of this petition to the Mint, 12 March 1713/4, printed in NC, 6: 74-5 (erroneously naming the applicant as William instead of James Bertie). See also Craig, NATM, 97-8: Newton considered 120,000 adequate as the total sum of copper coin in circulation.] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7345 | MINT00611 | Report on copper coinage | 1 | 38 | 583 | 12 March 1713 [= 1714] | Printed in NC, 6: 75-6.||The master of the Mint has jurisdiction over what gold and silver is acceptable for Mint use: the same must apply to copper. Explains the hammer test for copper and its advantages over other methods of testing. Requests an advance of 200 to repair and equip the Irish Mint for the new issue of copper coin and to make experimental castings. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7346 | MINT00612 | Holograph drafts of MINT00611 (Mint 19/2/305) with further details on processes for testing copper | 1 | 38 | 2,108 | 12 March 1713 [= 1714] | Mint 19/2/312-13 is also dated 12 March 1713 [= 1714]. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7347 | MINT00613 | 'Particular of the charges of repairing and fitting up the Irish Mint for a coynage of Copper' | 1 | 38 | 224 | c. 1713-1714 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7348 | MINT00614 | 'The Price of Engines for Coyning Copper' | 14 | 38 | 164 | c. 1713-1714 | Detailed estimate of machines required and their prices. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7349 | MINT00615 | List of small tools required and their prices | 14 | 38 | 195 | c. 1713-1714 | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | |||||
7350 | MINT00616 | Estimates the lowest possible cost of coining farthings as 1s.9 1/2 d. per pound weight. He and another mill owner, Essington, are considering putting in a joint tender | 96 | 38 | 279 | 8 April 1714 | Printed in NC, 6: 95-6. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7351 | MINT00617 | An account of experimental coinage of halfpence from bars: the coins have proved substandard. Suspects tin has been added by the melter contrary to instructions. Repeats request for money to repair and equip the Irish Mint [see MINT00611 (Mint 19/2/305)] | 1 | 38 | 366 | 12 April 1714 | Printed in NC, 6: 98. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7352 | MINT00618 | Holograph drafts of MINT00617 (Mint 19/2/311) | 1 | 38 | 937 | 12 April 1714 | Mint 19/2/338 is also dated 12 April 1714. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7354 | MINT00619 | 'Observations upon the Estimate of the neat profit of coyning 1500 Tunns of Copper into half pence & farthings' | 1 | 38 | 546 | c. 13 April 1714 | Draft of PRO, CO5/866, no. 17(i) (printed in Calendar of State Papers Colonial: American and West Indies, 1712-14, 330 and NC, 6: 99-100).||On a proposal made to the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations to coin 1,500 tons of copper for the Americas in five years. Newton considers this impracticable as no more than 80-100 tons is needed to meet demand. Detailed calculations of the potential profit from coining 1,500 tons. Remarks on the importance of maintaining the standard of copper used, to which end the coiner should not be allowed to supply the metal himself. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7355 | MINT00620 | Further holograph drafts of MINT00619 (Mint 19/2/322) | 1 | 38 | 2,648 | c. 13 April 1714 | On reverse of Mint 19/2/340: draft relating to the calculus controversy. Mint 19/2/353 is followed by three variant draft attacks on Leibniz [preparatives for the letter printed in NC, 6: 80-95: see especially ibid., n. 54]. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7356 | MINT00621 | Covering letter for MINT00619 (Mint 19/2/322), mentioning that the proposal had been referred to him earlier the same month | 1 | 38 | 93 | c. 13 April 1714 | Draft of PRO, CO5/866, no. 17 (dated 13 April 1714 and printed in NC, 6: 99). | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7359 | MINT00622 | Report (as ordered by the Treasury) on various methods of ascertaining the purity of copper, and the deficiencies of most methods | 95 | 38 | 704 | Before 26 April 1714 | On reverse: Treasury note to refer the proposal to the Mint, dated 26 April 1714.||The hammer test is the only reliable one. Affirms the superiority of hammered over cast coin, despite its greater cost. Bertie offers to undertake the production of hammered coin 'at the rate I formerly proposed to your Lordship'.||[See Craig, NATM, 97-8.] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7362 | MINT00623 | Report on copper coinage techniques | 1 | 38 | 380 | Autumn 1714? | Printed in NC, 6: 52-3. See Craig, NATM, 98.||Refers to and revises an earlier memorandum [possibly MINT00601 (Mint 19/2/352)]. The plan of casting copper directly into coin at the Mint has proved impracticable. Newton now favours inviting tenders to supply copper bars ready-hammered to coin thickness and discusses financial arrangements for this.||[Note on dating: NC tentatively places this document in January 1714 on grounds it is not very easy to follow. Craig more convincingly considers it to be related to and roughly contemporaneous with MINT00625 (Mint 19/2/363).] | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7363 | MINT00624 | Holograph draft of MINT00623 (Mint 19/2/308) | 1 | 38 | 772 | Autumn 1714? | Followed by notes on the calculus controversy and an astronomical chart. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7365 | MINT00625 | Reply to a Treasury enquiry about copper coinage techniques | 1 | 38 | 869 | c. 15 November 1714 | Printed in NC, 6: 190-2. Copy in PRO, T29/22, pp. 26-8 (dated 15 November 1714 and reproduced in CTB, 29, part 2 (1714-15): 28-9).||Recommends coining copper from hammered bars. Details of assay procedure, checks for consistency of weight and provisions for the pyx trial. Recommends Thomas Eyres as supplier and encloses copies of his and the moneyers' terms. The Mint buildings where the coining will be done are in need of repair. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7366 | MINT00626 | Holograph drafts of MINT00625 (Mint 19/2/363) | 1 | 38 | 2,122 | c. 15 November 1714 | Mint 19/2/337 has also been used for a holograph draft syllabus for Stone's Foundation. | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | 7/28/21, 3:51 PM | View Edit Delete | ||||
7367 | MINT00627 | Holograph draft memorandum on various tenders made in 1713 and 1714 | 1 | 38 | 746 | 1714-15 |