Newton: Chronology Project: Authors

Id	118

Author

John Rotherham

Id	Catalog Name	Title	Author Id	Archive Id	Pages	Origin Date	Notes	Created	Updated At	Actions
7690	MINT00870	Proposals for measures to eliminate counterfeiting	118	38	501	29 August 1720	Proposes the appointment of a board of five hereditary commissioners, including himself and the addressee, at a salary of 500 a year each, to supervise coining according to a method he has invented that renders counterfeiting impossible. Salaries of senior Mint officers could also be raised by around 200, since Rotherham's method will save the government between fifteen and twenty thousand pounds a year.\|\|[The proposal specifies an increase of 200 in the master's salary, as well as proposing the addressee as a commissioner on 500 a year, which suggests Newton is not the addressee. See NC, 7: 102, n.1 to letter 1345.]	7/28/21, 3:51 PM	7/28/21, 3:51 PM	View Edit Delete
7691	MINT00871	Advertises his discovery of a new method of coining to make coins more durable and prevent counterfeiting, which he offers to reveal for a suitable reward	118	38	242	Before 11 October 1720		7/28/21, 3:51 PM	7/28/21, 3:51 PM	View Edit Delete
7700	MINT00878	Copies of two broadly similar petitions requesting a hereditary post in the Mint at 1,000 p.a. in perpetuity in exchange for revealing his new coining method	118	38	736	Before 15 October 1721		7/28/21, 3:51 PM	7/28/21, 3:51 PM	View Edit Delete