Partial holograph draft of MINT00643 (Mint 19/2/319)

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YOU are desired to Meet the Lords and others the Commissioners appointed by His Majesty for Building the the Fifty New Churches in and about the Cities of London and Westminster, &c on Thursday the 15th Day of this augst — at ten of the Clock in the fore noon, at the Pallace yard in Westmr. — to proceed in the Executing of the Authorities, and Transacting the Affairs of the said Commission. Dated the tenth Day of August – 1717 —

William Waters, Messenger.

5946 Perdiceas & Caramus {{illeg}\{illeg}/ {illeg}\{illeg}/} of Phi{don} {illeg} y^e kingdo of Macedon. Phidon introduces weights & measures & the coining of silver money.

584 Phidon presides in the 49^th Olympiad.

580 Phidon being overthrown, {two} men are chosen by lot to preside out of the {enly} ellis to preside in the Olympic games & called {Heleriadica}.

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D^no {illeg}\nostro supremo/ Georgio Dei Gralia insignæ Britannæ Franci{illeg} et Hebern. Regi Fidei Defensori in sexcentis libris &c

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{illeg} in any one month, & that no other copper be coined before the coinag{e} of the said 30 Tunns be dispatched unless upon default of the delivery of such copper as is required & in such quantity.

Whereas his said sacred Majesty above mentioned hath by Warrant under his signe Manual dated the          day of this present August commanded S^r Issac Newton {illeg}Kn^t Master & W^r of his Mint in the Tower of London to coine half pence & farthings of fine British Copper so that twent which |when heated red hot| will spread thin under the hammer & {{illeg}} so that twenty & thre {sic} pence may make a pound weight Averdupois as nearly as is practicable. |&| to pay the Importer for such rates as the Lords Comm^rs {the} \^Majesties/ Treasury now being or the Lord H. Tr. or L^ds Comm^rs of the Treãry for the time being shall approve, not allow not exceeding eighteen pence by the pound w^t the one half thereof in money upon receiving the said Copper & the other half in money & copper together upon returning back the scissel the said scissel being recconed at the same price by the pound weight with the copper imported: Now the Condition

The Greeks\{illeg}{pegas} Greeks/ wrote nothing in Prose before the conquest of Asia {{illeg}|by|} Cyrus. {Thea Pherecides Squius & Cadmus Milesius} wer taught to write in Prose. And i|I|n the reign of Darius Hystaspis Pherecides or soon after Pherecides {illeg}|A|lbeniensis who wrote of Antiquities & digested his work by genealogies {Epineaides} the historian proceeded also by Genealogies. And Hallanicus who was 12 years older then Herodotus digested his history by the \{ages} or/ successions of the Priestesses of Iuno Argiva Others digested theirs by the|o|se of the Archons of Athens or Kings of the Lacedemonians making their ages\successions/ or reigns equipollent to generations, & recconing \about/ three generations to an hundred years. Ephorus the disciple of Isocrates – – about repugnances. {Platarah} tells us that\Now/ since {Eratosthenes} & Apollodorus & Eratosthenes computed the times by the reigns of the kings of Sparta & (as appears {in} their Chronology still followed) made the 17 reigns between the return of the Heraclitus & the battel at Thera{mo}pylae {illeg} to take up 622 years, w^ch is after the rate of 36$\frac{1}{2}$ years years to a reign & yet kings reign {illeg} another at a moderate reconing but about 18 or 20 years a piece one with another: I have drawn \up/ {ten follow} table so as to make \free {chronoly}/ answer to the course of nature {illeg} it from the repugnances complained of by Plad{ar}{illeg} and to make it answer \better/ to the course of nature & {illeg}\sent with the/ {illeg} sacred History. I do not pretend to be exact to a {illeg} There may be errors of five of|r| ten years & seldom above 20.