322), mentioning that the proposal had been referred to him earlier the same month

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/2/323, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Additional Information
- Notes on the Electronic Edition
  - You are currently reading the diplomatic version of this text. Diplomatic transcriptions offer a detailed representation of the document with minimal editorial intervention. All deletions and additions are rendered in the text and abbreviations have not been expanded. Switching to the normalized view of this text will hide 11 deletions, silently include 11 additions and apply 5 editorial regularizations.
- Revision History
  - 1 January 2001
    - Catalogue information compiled by Rob Iliffe, Peter Spargo & John Young
  - 29 September 2011
    - Catalogue exported to teiHeader by Michael Hawkins
  - 13 March 2017
    - Transcribed by Will Scott
- Download MINT00621.xml and schema (advanced users only)

<323r>

S^r

I have considered the inclosed estimate made upon a proposal offered to the Lord's Comm^rs for Trade & Plantations for coyning 1{illeg}|5|00 Tunns of Copper into half pence & farthings \in five years/ & d{illeg} according to their Lord^ps Order signified to one by y^e Loetter of Apri\the/ 8^th {illeg}|I|nstant have sent you the inclosed \opinion {illeg}|&|/ considerations upon them \with my opinion therein/. I beg the favour that you will please to ac{illeg}|q|uaint their Lord^ps that {illeg}|m|y L{illeg}|o|rd High Treasurer hath{illeg} the coynage of copper mon{illeg}|e|y under consideration. I am

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

Privacy Statement