Holograph fragment of an account for the Mint's receipt of silver recovered from the shipwreck off Mayo

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/2/571, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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  - 1 January 2001
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<571r>

May it pl. yo^r Lord^ps

|Pursuant to yo^r Lordps Warrant We – – – – –
– –|{P}|W|e have received his Ma^ts share o{illeg}|f| {illeg}|th|e silver taken up out of the Wreck neare the I|s|land of Mayo, the same amounting to 618^lwt 11^oz, & the same being carried to the Mint & melted down into clean ingots made \in gross weight 614^li. 3 ounces &/ in standard weight 614|26|^{lw^t}. 7^oz. 16^{dw^t}. 21^gr.

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

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