Minute of the Edinburgh Mint Board recommending the appointment of an assistant to the assay master

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/3/50, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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28^th of October 1707

Att a meeting of the officers of the Mint at Edinburgh Doctor Gregory present

The Assay-master Represented that he had so many Assays to take that he Could not Expeed the work without the Assistance of a Clerk which being Considered by the officers They thought it very reasonable that he should have one and therefor up on the 12^th of November yr after dispatch of the work Retarded by the many Assays It was recommended the Assaymaster to gett one Assistant and that he goe about it with all Expedition and the officers of the mint are to take Care that what allowance he gives to his Assistant be payd him Extracted out of the Ceredunt booke in the mint at {Edb^r} By Robtt: Millar. Queens Clerk.

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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