Catalogue Entry: MINT00828

History of the smith's house since 1577 and of disputes between the Mint and the Ordnance Office as to which of them owns it

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/3/426, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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Contents

Suggests that the renovations proposed by the Ordnance [MINT00827 (Mint 19/3/434)] should be postponed pending a precise ruling on the boundaries of the Mint.

Notes

Two variant holograph drafts, one on each side. NC suggests the verso may relate to the similar dispute of 1699 [see MINT00820 (Mint 19/3/429-30)], but even by Newton's standards twenty-one years seems rather a long time to let pass between using one side of a sheet and the other.

Recto printed in NC, 7: 94-6; verso calendared in ibid., 95-6, n.1.

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