View Catalog: MINT00437

Catalog Name MINT00437
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Title Memorandum concerning Scottish poundage
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Author Isaac Newton
Place of Origin no place assigned
Origin Date 14 February 1709 [= 1710]
Repository National Archives (Kew, Richmond)
Pages 479
Wordcount 0
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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).

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