Holograph draft of MINT00437 (Mint 19/3/17)

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/3/21, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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

May it please your Lord^p

According to yo^r Lord^ps verbal Order I humbly lay before yo^r Lord^p the state of the case\Question/ about the allowance \to be made to \in the accounts of/ M^r Allardes/ for the late coinage of silver moneys in Scotland. at Edinburgh.

By her Maj^ties Warrant of Iun{illeg}|e| 20^th 1707

By the Indenture of the Mint \in the Tower/ the Master & Worker is allowd sixteen pence half penny upon the pound weight Troy for the coinage of silver moneys. The words of the Indenture are hereunto annexed

By her Maj^ties Warrant of 20 Iune 1707 the Officers of her Maj^ties Mint at Edinburgh, (for putting the Act of union in execution,) were directed to observe the rules of coynage set down in the said Indenture w^th respect to their several offices: but I do not remember that any alteration in the allo salaries or \in the/ allowanc{e} for coinage was then under consideration. The words of the Warrant are hereunto annexed.

By an Act of Parliament made in Scotland A.C. 169{illeg}|0| the Master of the|a||t| Mint in Scotland was allowed twenty pounds Scots upon the stone weight Scots \for coinage/ of silver moneys: for coynage thereof. The \& this all{illeg}|ow|ance was \accordingly made/ made till the Vnion. The/ words of that\the/ Act are hereunto annexed. And t|T|hree pounds scots are worth 5|4|^s 6 $\frac{1}{2}$ ^d \english/ at their just value, but the Scots \valued/ 13 shillings scots at {illeg}|O|ne\twelve/ shilling |pence| english before the union & at thirteen pence \english/ in distributing the equivalent. In the first case the allowance comes to almost 17 $\frac{1}{2}$ ^d in the second to something more then 17 $\frac{1}{2}$ ^d, in the third to about 19 $\frac{1}{11}$ ^d, upon the pound weight Troy.

The Question is, what shall be allowed in the accounts of the late Master {illeg}|&| W M^r Allardes upon the pound weight Troy for the \late/ coinage of silver moneys.

All w^ch &c is most humbly submitted

Is. Newton