Letter concerning a potential raise to the salaries of the clerks of the Mint

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: T 1/239.83, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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To the R^t Hon^ble the Lords Commissioners of his Ma^ties Treasury.

May it please your Lord^ps

The Salaries of the Clerks of the Mint, which were setled about sixty years ago, being now not sufficient for their maintenance, we humbly pray that {illeg}|th|ey may be augmented by about a quarter; so that the salaries of the Warden's Clerk, the Masters three Clerks, & of the Comptrollers Clerk, w^ch. are forty pounds per an each, may become fifty pounds each; & that those of the Assaymasters Clerk & of the Purveyer to the Mint w^ch. are twenty pounds each per ann, may become twenty & five pounds each; & those of the Clerk of the Weigher & Teller & of the Clerk of the Surveyor of the meltings w^ch. are ten pounds each per ann may become twelve pounds ten shillings each. All which is most humbly submitted to yo^r Lord^ps. great wisdome.

Mint Office.
Iune 26^th 1722.

Isaac Newton

Martin Bladen

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From the Master Worker & Comptoller of the Mint

19^th Iuly 1722

Agreed to

Warr^t signd

8^th. Aug^t 1722