Correspondence relating to Edinburgh Mint funding

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/3/164, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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  Letter concerning the Edinburgh Mint [MINT 19/3/123]

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My Lord

I received your Lord^ps Letter abo & {are} the settling\& about &/\a settlem^t of/\about the {illeg} {settled} of {illeg}ing/\about {illeg}{illeg} {curing} {illeg}ing/\about getting a settlement of the/ y^e {sic}y^e revenues of\w^ch will from time to time grow due to/ her Ma^ties Mint at Edinburght {being} [so y^t salaries & other expenses of the M{a}|in|t may be duely paid for y^e future,] \And the same/ {{illeg}|b|}eing a th{illeg}|i|ng of consequence: I am h{{illeg}|um|}bly of opinion that y^e properest method to get it {still} done\{illeg} {method} duly paid/\it done/ would be for {{illeg}|yo^r|} Lord^p to lay a Memorial before my Lord H. Treasurer about it so soon as this Vacation time is over, & my\his/ L^p T{he} (who is now in the coun{illeg}|try|) returns to London to stay do business, w^ch may be {illeg}\about/ the end of October, or beginnin & I beleive that it may not be amiss for yo^r Lord^p to service send the Memorial to the y{o}^e Secretary of state & desire him to lay it before my\{illeg}/ L{illeg}|o|rd Treasurer in yo^r Lord^ps name. I am apt to think that the method used in the Mint in the Tower will be put in practise in\{illeg}/ your Mint {illeg} but there as soon as the arrears due from y^e collectors & subcollectors can be got in\& the debts {now} present accounts of y^e Mint be cleared/.\followed./ I am in all humbly

My L^d

Yo^r

S^r

Last s{illeg}|u|mmer the Officers of this Mint {last} made a report upon

My Lord

Soon after yo^r Lord^p left London the Officers of this Mint made report to my Lord Treasurer upon the petition of {Th} the Queens Clerk for allowing him 60^li for his pains in assisting the three Comm^rs in receiving the old money to be recoined. And finding a reference written upon the Moneyers petition (w^ch I was not aware of when I saw your Lord^p last, We have made a report upon that \Petition/ also; the {illeg}\And {shall}//w^ch\ Report amounted only to this; that the summs of money for w^ch they petitioned, were due to them but not yet paid by reason that M^r Allardes had not yet received moneys from y^e government sufficient for this purpose. And that of the 9^d per pound weight w^ch was due to them for coinage, {illeg} eight pence was due from M^r Allardes out of his allowance, & one penny was {illeg} properly to be allowed by her Ma^ty as is done in the Mint in y^e Tower of London. {illeg} I do not yet know whe{{illeg}|t|}her these Reports have been yet laid before his Lord^pmy Lord Treasurer, because {illeg} it is {now} \during this/ vacation time his Lord^p is seldome in London. I am