Copy of note concerning petitions to succeed Brattle as assay master, and supply of copper to the works at Great Marlow

Author: William Lowndes (Secretary to the Treasury)

Source: T 27/20.343, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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Officers Mint
ab^t
M^r Kemp & M^r
Cumberlege &
proprietors of
y^e Copper works
at Great Marlow

Gent

My Lord Trearer Commands me to send you the inclosed Peticons of M^r Iohn Kemp, & M^r Iohn Cumberlege each of them praying to succeed M^r Brattle, late Assay Master of the Mint, his Lordp directs you to consider the same, with the other Applicacons that have been make for the said Office, And that you propose to his Lordp the fittest person in your Iudgm^t: for filling up the said vacancy I am &c^a the 4^th. Feb^ry. 17 $\frac{12}{3}$

W^m Lowndes

This incloses also a proposicon of the proprietors of the Copper Works at Great Marlow for supplying Blank peices of Copper for Coyning farthings & halfpence, which you'll consider with all other the papers now under your Consideracon relating to the said Coynage, and make Your Report to his Lordp thereupon.

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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