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Chester May ye 16th: 1725

Sir Isack Newton

Your great, wise and food genious, so much known to mankinde, leads me, (tho unknown) to trouble you with the Melancholly acct: of an unhappy youth, tho \a/ most hopefull young Gentleman, & son of the best of Mothers, who {illeg}|h|as been alwayes Esteemed an Extraordinary Wife to her husband, & looked on to be most valuable in the deportment of her minde which I hope alltogether may deserve your advice, & consideration, toward this young Gentleman, & doubt not, but if you will please to give him leave to make himselfe known to you, that you will finde \him/ deserveing of yor instructions and favor, because, beleive him, to be a branch of yor Family, as I Iudge may appear, by the following acct: vizt:

This young Gentleman, \Robert Newton/ now upwards of 15 years old is the heir of Heightly in the County of Salop, which Estate is well Wooded, & upwards of £800 ꝑ an: This sd Robert Newton, is Lineally descended from Sir Richard Newton who was Lord Cheife Iustice of the Com̄on Pleas, in Reigns of 3 of the King Henerys, & allso descended Lineally from Sr Peter Newton, mentioned in Bakers Chronicles &ca.

This sd Robt: Newton, Minor, is kept out of his Estate by two Daughters, of his Fathers Eldest Brother, & tho there was a good Settlement made att the Marriag\e/ of his Grandmother, on the Male heirs, yet his uncles two Daughters pretend there has been fines past, and that their Father & Grand Mother by Lease & Release, has created it fee simple, but this sd Robt: Newtons Father who was next in the intail, was not taken in, He was Minister of St Peters Church in this Citty of Chester, When he dyed, he left 5 young Children, the Eldest, but 12 years old, and this present youth, then 4 months Old, their Mother, through her great care and industry, gave them all, a good Edducation, the Eldest son, Chosen fellow, of Brazon Noze {illeg}|O|xen, and tooke his Master of Arts degree, he afterward, was Reader of St Stephens Walbrook London. In the year 1720 he preferred a Bill in Chancery against the two Daughters of his Vnckle, & continued in suit near two years, but finding his Mothers substance Exausted, & not able to proceed dismissed his bill, and soon after dyed, and ever since his death, <11v> the two daughters are cutting down the Wood & makeing great devastation in the Estate, as appears by the Oaths of Creddible Persons,

Sr Isack \my/ years & Eyes will not permitt me to write, what may be said on this terrible case, but as Iustice & conscience, are the motives of troubling \you/, I hope it \may/ Excuse me, as I am with great Respect,

Sir Isack,

Your most humble servant

Geo: Needham

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Sir Isack Newton att his house
near Leisterfeilds
London

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May it please yor Lordps

In obedience to your Lordps Order of Referent of Sept. 23d, 1{illeg}|7|25, that we should cause the weight & assay of five sorts of {Po} new Portugal Gold coins \to be taken/ & report the same to your Lordps with our opinion of\at/ what value they may reasonably go in Ireland in case his Mty should think fit to make them current there by proclamation: We have weighted & c caused \five pieces of/ the said five sorts \{of}/ new out of the Portugal Mint, to be assayed & weighed & assayed. And they proved as follows

Pieces Assay\Weights/ Assays Values
oz.dwt.gr
1 0.1.3 standard weak 0.4.4
2 0.2.8 sta. strong 0.9.1
3 0.4.15 sta. weak 0.18.0
4 0.9.5 sta. strong 1.15.10
5 0.18.9 standard 3.11.612

By these assays the {illeg}e\coyn is/ standard & by the{se} weights they\of the pieces, the species/ are starndard the double to one another in proportion, so that \if/ the biggest may\pieces/ be worth\{valu} {valed {sic}} at/ three pounds eleven shillings & eight pence \(as we rec{illeg}|c|on{)}/; the next in bigness \will be worth/ one pound eleven pence\{aba}/, the least but one eight\nine/ shillings \abating an half penny/ & the least four shillings & six pence abating a farthing. These are their \{illeg} one wth another/ values \in England/ when they come |in our silver money| fresh out of the Mint \one with another/ but the Merchants will be apt to pick out the lightest pieces {&} for Ireland & send the heaviest to the melting pot. And those peices wch are full weight when they come \fresh/ out of the Mint, will soon \grow lighter/ by wearing grown lighter in Portugal before they come into Ireland. And the smallest pieces will wear fastest in pro
portion to their weight & value. And considering also But if they are to|this money is to| be made current in Ireland, we are humbly of opinion that they biggest pieces should not be {in} current for more then 3li 10s; 1li. 15s; 17s 6d; 8s 9d; & {illeg} the biggest pieces should not be current for more then the value of three Guineas & a third part of a Guinea in Ireland, |[|the next \not/ for no more then a Guinea & two third parts of a Guinea, the middlemost for five sixt parts of a Guinea, the least but one for five twelft parts of a Guinea, & the least for half as much.|]| the{illeg} next in bignes \may be current/ for half the value of the biggest, the next\middlemost/ for a quarter of that value, the least but one for the eighth part of that value & the least \for/ the sixteenth part thereof. All wch is most humbly submitted

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The pieces of the biggest species we reccon worth 3li. 11s. 8d {illeg} each as they come fresh out of the Mint, if well coi & the next in big\one with another;/ & according to this valuation the next in bigness are worth one pound 15s & ten pence & each, the middlesmost are worth 17s. 11d each, the least but one are worth eigh\nine/ shilling & eleven pence each \abated an halfpenny/, & the least are worth four sh. & six pence each abating a farthing.

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The Two thousand three hundred days are the duration of the profanation of the {temple}. |& intermission of the {daily sacr}| & amount unto six years & four months & twenty days: whereas the profanation of the tem{ple} & interruption of cessation of the daily sacrifice in the reign of Antiochus lasted but three years 1 Maccab. 1. \20,/ 20, 54. And if you date the time from the first spoiling of the temple by Antiochus, wch was th{illeg}|wo| years earlier, the whole will be but five years, & these not continued. But if you date them from the time in wch some Iews forsook apostatized from the law to the religion of the heathens & got a licence from ye king to do after the ordinances of the heathens, & built built a place at Ierusalem for their religious meetings \{Mac 1 11, 13, 14{sic}}/: the year of this apostacy is not recorded, & it was but a particular apostacy without profaning the Temple or interrupting the daily sacrifice during 2300 days.

And He only polluted the temple & took away the daly {sic} sacrifice during three years or 1080 days. \MAccab. 1. 28, 29, 54/ He spoiled the temple two years before but did not then take away the daily sacrific{e} & the whole five years amount\amount/ only to 1800 days. Before this some \Iews/ apostatized from the Iewish religion {illeg} to the heathen. laws to the heathen religion & got a licence from the king to do after the ordinances of the heathens & built a place at {illeg}|I|erusalem for their religious meetings \Maccabi 1. 1.. 12. 14,/ but they neither cast down the sanctuary nor polluted it not took away the daily sacrifice. The sanctuary conti little horn acted till the last end of the indignation & this indignation is not yet at an end. The sanctuary continued cast down 2300 days before it was cleansed, & day, in sacred prophets are pu{illeg} for years. Ezek IV, 5, 6.

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The Widdow Newtonss house, is
in the Abby yeard here

I will wait on you when I return
to London – where I hope I may
be able, to shew, that this Family & youth
does merrit yor Protection & Patronage

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