Catalogue Entry: MINT00701
'A Report made Sept. 23. 1706 upon the proposals of Mr Holt & Mr Williams dated May 31th & Iuly 17th 1706'
Contents
Dismisses their proposals to increase the price of tin as this would destroy trade. Their confidence that East Indies tin is 'of a bad sort and little in quantity' [so Dutch competition need not be feared] is misplaced: more recent information suggests almost limitless stocks of high quality tin there.
At top of page: possibly related calculations.
Related Material
Presumably a draft of the Mint's letter to the Treasurer of the same date dismissing the same proposals (T. 1/99.97, MINT00948, printed in NC, 4: 478-80), though the Treasury copy is untitled and very differently worded, and specifies the source of the Mint's information on East Indies tin as John Drummond [see note to MINT00699 (Mint 19/3/577)].
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