Catalogue Entry: MINT00252

Holograph copy of accounts submitted by the Navy for 1664-6

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/3/460-63, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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Followed by 'Observations upon ye above stated accompt' (Mint 19/3/460-62), criticising many of the expenses cited as inflated or unnecessary, and by a table (Mint 19/3/462-3) 'copied out of Mr Pepys his papers' of the crew and equipment required on each ship in the Navy under various conditions ('In war at home', 'In war abroad' and 'In time of peace').

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