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Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/3/46, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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To the R^t Hon^ble the Earl of Godolphin Lord High Treasurer of great Britain.

May it please your Lord^p

We humbly beg leave to lay before your Lord^p that M^r Daniel Stuart the Collector of the Bullion for her Maj^ties Mint at Edinburgh is newly dead (as we hear by the last Post) & that in o^r humble opinion the place of Collector of the Bullion being neither necessary nor irregular should cease & the said Bullion be henceforth paid by the Vnder Collectors into the hands of the Cashkeeper of North Britain & kept apart in the Exchequer in a proper Chest under the key of the said Cas{k}|h|keeper & also, if it be thought fit, under the key of the General of her Maj^ties said Mint (as is directed by the Scotch Act of Parliament whereby this Duty is granted to the Mint,) & that it be issued out thence from time to time by Warrants to the General & Master of the said Mint & kept apart in the Treasury of the said Mint under the keys of the General the Master & the Wardens for defraying the charges of coynage & repairs & paying of Salaries, & be accounted for annually by the Master, so that the two Mints \in respect of their cash/ may be under the same Rules in conformity to the Act of Vnion |& the Indenture of her Ma^ties Mints|

And we are further humbly of opinion that the Executor or Executors of the said M^r Stuart be directed forthwith to pay into the hands of the General & Master of the said Mint such a summ of money as your Lord^p shall think fit, suppose the summ of 2500^li, \or 5000^li/ to be kept in the Treasury of that Mint under the keys of tha|e| General the Master & Wardens, that the service of that Mint receive no stop for want of moneys, there being as we are very credibly informed, a far greater summ in the hands of the Executor of the said M^r Stuart.

All which is most humbly submitted to yo^r Lord^ps great Wisdom{{illeg}|e|}.

^[1]

Is. Newton

^[1] Mint Office 14^th April 1709.