Holograph fragment of report that the informant Henry Smithson has been paid all he is owed

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/1/484, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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<484r>

That it doth not app upon examining M^r Smithson's Acc^ts it doth not appear to us that any money is due to him for prosecuting by Order of the Warden of the Mint.

That M^r Newton is of opinion that for encouraging those that prosecute under the Warden it would have been better that {t}|a|ll the Coynage Duty including the 400^l had been imprested to y^e M^r for the time being, so that he might advance to y^e Warden any reasonable summs of ready money for that service upon receipts for the same & be discharged in his Acc^ts b yearly Acc^ts by those Receipts

<484v>

To the Right Worshipfull S^r Isaac Newton at his house in Iermyn street.

Westminster.

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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