Holograph draft query as to whether the Queen cannot empower the master of the Edinburgh Mint to employ moneyers at his own discretion and on his own terms, as the master of the London Mint does

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/3/174, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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The Master of her Ma^ties Mint at Edinburgh is allowed by a Scotch Act of Parliam^t after a certain rate by the po{illeg}|u|nd weight for coynage of gold & silver. His place is continued by the Vnion Act & the coynage is appointed to be performed there after \the/ same manner as in her Ma^ts Mint in y^e Tower

Quære whether her Ma^ty may not direct y^e Master of her Mint at Edinburgh to {i}|e|mploy Moneyers under him coyning the moneys in that Mint, & \whether she may not also/ appoint their wages as is done in y^e Mint in y^e Tower?

Professor Rob Iliffe
Director, AHRC Newton Papers Project

Scott Mandelbrote,
Fellow & Perne librarian, Peterhouse, Cambridge

Faculty of History, George Street, Oxford, OX1 2RL - newtonproject@history.ox.ac.uk

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