Request for a Trial of the Pix

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: T 1/242.68, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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To the R^t Hon^ble the Lords Commissioners of His Maj^ties Treasury

May it please yo^r Lord^ps

In order to make up my Accounts of the Coynage
of copper moneys & pay the ballance thereof into the Exchequer, I humbly pray your Lord^ps that a Tryall of the Pixes of that Coynage may be appointed.

Which is most humbly submitted to yo^r Lord^ps great

wisdome

Isaac Newton

Mint Office
18 Octob. 1722.

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Sir Is Newton /Memorial\

18^th 8br 1722

M^r Powys to be present on the part of the Treary at this Tryal

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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