Catalogue Entry: MINT00467
Protest against preferential treatment for the Edinburgh Mint
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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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Signed by Newton and comptroller Martin Bladen.
Related Material
Printed in NC, 6: 410-11. Apparently never sent: ibid., 411, n.1.
