'Charges of receiving melting and standarding the Plate'

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/2/548, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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Charges of receiving melting & standarding the Plate

		s	d
\|1\| Recompence per ounce 2^d, per pound 2^s		2.	0
\|2\| Worsness at a mi{illeg}\|d\|dle rate the last 6 $\frac{1}{2}$ ^d{illeg}\|w\|t, this year now the unmarkt plate w^ch is worst is excluded {illeg}\|&\| received & received at its just value) {sic} 6^dwt	}	1.	6 $\frac{1}{2}$
\|5\| Refining the coarsest to bring the rest to standard		0.	3
\|3\| Melting including {illeg}\|s\|ervants wages $\frac{3}{4}$ ^d. Pots, ladles tongues, Ingot moulds &c $\frac{1}{4}$	}	0.	1
\|4\| Wast including the considerations of the sweep & making it up	}	0.	2 $\frac{3}{4}$
		4.	1 $\frac{1}{4}$
Care hazzard & {illeg}\|ch\|arge of receiving & sending the silver to y^e mint (including servants wages	}	0.	2
Interest at 20 per cent for y^e price of every pound weight of silver till it be coyned (w^ch may be done in a fortnight) 3^d per week	}	0.	6
		4.	9
For I{illeg}\|n\|terest, care & hazzard they demand 1^s per pound & for housrent {&} servants & suchlike incidents 1^d $\frac{1}{2}$ w^ch makes the whole 5^s. 2^d $\frac{1}{2}$ $\frac{1}{4}$	}	1{5}	1 $\frac{1}{2}$
	}	5	2 $\frac{1}{2}$ $\frac{1}{4}$

Professor Rob Iliffe
Director, AHRC Newton Papers Project

Scott Mandelbrote,
Fellow & Perne librarian, Peterhouse, Cambridge

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