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Catalog Name MINT00076
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Title Application to appoint a new smith
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Author Isaac Newton
Place of Origin no place assigned
Origin Date 7 August 1711
Repository National Archives (Kew, Richmond)
Pages 254
Wordcount 0
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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.

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