View Catalog: MINT00030

Catalog Name MINT00030
Document
Title Response to the clerks' petition for a pay increase [presumably MINT00029 (Mint 19/2/498)]
Subtitle
Author Isaac Newton
Place of Origin no place assigned
Origin Date 6 December 1698
Repository National Archives (Kew, Richmond)
Pages 272
Wordcount 0
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Strongly recommending rises of between 10 and 20 p.a. (ie. 50) as their current salaries are not enough to live on, despite 'there being to our certain knowledge, great diligence & care requird of them, & no manner of proffitts or perquisites besides the bare salaries'.

Notes

[This recommendation, and similar ones of 1702, 1705 and 1718, were all overruled by the Treasury: see Craig, NATM, 114.]

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