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Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/2/162, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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Gentlemen,

I have reexamined the paper I left in yo^r hands last week concerning her Maj^ts allowance to her forces at Dunkirk per 20^s sterling, & send it to you under my hand.

The three Guilder piece of Holland new out of the Mint is worth in new e|E|nglish silver money at a medium 5^s 2^d $\frac{3}{4}$ . And thence 20^s in new e|E|nglish silver money is intrinsically worth in new d|D|utch silver money at {illeg}|a| medium 11 Guilders 9 ^stivers 5 $\frac{3}{4}$ deniers at a medium. But 20^s English have of late passed in Holland for ten Guilders & 9 or 10 styvers, or at a medium, for ten Guilders & 9 $\frac{1}{2}$ styvers. And by consequence the loss by the exchange was at a medium {two} styvers wanting only a quarter of a denier\about one Guilder/. Of this loss her Maj^ty allowed the forces in Flanders 5 $\frac{1}{2}$ styvers & the forces lost about 14 $\frac{1}{2}$ styvers. Her Maj^ts allowance was after the rate of 2 $\frac{2}{5}$ per cent & the loss of the forces after the rate of 6 $\frac{1}{3}$ per cent.

The French crown new species \fresh out of the Mint/ is worth in new English silver 5^s 1^d. And thence 20^s in {case} English are worth in new English silv French silver money new species 19^Livres 13^sous 5_∟3 deniers, at a medium But 20^s English pass at silver money pass at Dunkirk for 17^s. 00. 00. And by consequence the loss by the exchange was is 2^livres. 13^sous. 5_∟3^den And this loss being divided between her Maj^ty & the forces at Dunkirk in the same proportion as before in Flanders: her Maj^ts allowance will come to 14 $\frac{7}{10}$ livres, or in the next round num{b}ber to 15 stivers {illeg}sous, w^ch is after the rate of 3 $\frac{4}{5}$ per cent And the forces at Dunkirk will beare the loss of 1^liver 18^{deniers/sous\} 5_∟3 deniers w^ch is after the rate of {illeg}9 $\frac{3}{4}$ per cent.

According to the proportion therefore allowed in Flanders her Majestys allowance at Dunkirk will amount to to the forces at Dunkirk \for 20^s/ will amount 17 livres, 15 sous {f} reconning a crown piece new species of France at 5^s livres. But her Maj^ty may vary the proportion at pleasure.