Hercules Scott
Hercules Scott
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| Id | Catalog Name | Title | Subtitle | Author Id | Archive Id | Document Name | Wordcount | Pages | Origin Place Id | Origin Date | Notes | Created | Updated At | Actions |
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| 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 | ||||
| 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 |