Draft list of editorial amendments to be made to a report on Chaloner

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/1/505, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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p 42. lin 28. read for: an offender &c read: a counterfeiter\false coyner/ or clipper or importer of false of clipt money receive a reward of 40^s

p 43 {illeg}lin 3 for: did mightily encourage, read: encouraged

p. 54 l 3. read: that no Guineas after 10 April 1696 should pass. &c

p. 54 l. 12. read: Hereupon {by} the Kings Receivers & Collectors being order{ed} by the Commi^rs of his Maj^ts Treasury to receive Guineas at no more then 21^s 6^d, & an advertisement thereof being published in the Gazet, they presently began to pass at that rate & still continue to do so as they did also many years before 1695.

p 58. l. 18. In stead of [The Gentlemen of the Office of Ordnance] read The Garrison

{Ib}. lin 25 & 28 rea Instead of of [the Ordnance] read [the Garrison.]

p.62 l. 27. After [weekly] may be added. And the like observations were made of the Mills, Marking Engins & Furnaces for knowing the dispatch of each.

p. 70 l 16,17 Quære if forreign {stan} silver was not dearer.

p. 73 l {ult}. add: Also any person might before 1^st Iune 1697 pay this years taxes or any part thereof in wrou such wrought plate at such rate as afores^d w^thout {illeg}

p 82 {Dele} [w^ch was what he would untertake {sic} provided &c] & scribe: And at length\& for an experiment he edges some blanks of Tin w^th a groove and then/ he discovered that his designe was to be made Supervisor of the Mint for putting these things in practise & publishin|ed|g his proposal \in w^ch he/ made severe reflections in it upon y^e Officers \& others of the Mint/ as {illeg} unskilful people that he might recommend himself the move.

M^r Newton then Warden of the Mint represented to some of the Committee on the other hand that his way of Chaloners would be slow & chargeable & subject to other inconveniences. For – – – cast with a high impression & smoothed between two