View Catalog: MINT00467
| Catalog Name | MINT00467 | |
|---|---|---|
| Document | ||
| Title | Protest against preferential treatment for the Edinburgh Mint | |
| Subtitle | ||
| Author | Isaac Newton | |
| Place of Origin | no place assigned | |
| Origin Date | 5 September 1717 | |
| Repository | National Archives (Kew, Richmond) | |
| Pages | 236 | |
| Wordcount | 0 | |
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Printed in NC, 6: 410-11. Apparently never sent: ibid., 411, n.1.||Signed by Newton and comptroller Martin Bladen.||The Treasury has ordered payment of 1,200 (almost the whole quarterly revenue received under the Coinage Act) to the Edinburgh Mint. London Mint expenditure in the quarter to 29 September will be 1,700, which it has 310 to meet. Requests that either the money be paid to the London Mint instead or provision made from other funds.
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