Holograph memorandum on the amount due to the Scottish moneyers

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/3/185, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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The \silver/ moneys coined at Edinburgh by the Moneyers was\|er\|\|e\| in weight 103346^{lw^t} and \and the coinage thereof/ at 9^d per pound weight allowed to them by her Maj^ties Warrant for coinage\of/ amounted unto the summ of 3875^li. 9^s. 6^d whereof they have received of M^r Allares the late Master & Worker of her Maj^ts Mint at Edinburgh the summ of 1429^li. 6^s. 2^d $\frac{1}{2}$ and there remains due to them	}	li	s	d
	}	2446.	3.	3 $\frac{1}{2}$
More due to them \by the same Warr^t/ for the charges \of the journeys/ of four\five/ Moneyers to Edinburgh & \four of them/ back /after the rate of {illeg}\|{08}\|^li to {illeg} of them per journey\		72.	0.	0
More due to them \by the same Warrant/ for an allowance of 3^s p^r diem each for their maintenance when there was no work	}	182	2.	0
Total		2690.	5.	3 $\frac{1}{2}$

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