Copy of letter suspending payment of monies to Mr Lewis and Mr Bowles, with a note from Halley

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 10/2/60r, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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<60r>

To the Warden, Master, & Comptroller of the Mint at Chester

Gent^m

You are required to suspend the payment of all Moneys due or w^ch: shall become due from your Mint to M^r Bowles & M^r Lewis, untill such time as the accounts of M^r Lewis shall be ballanced, & those betweene M^r Bowles \and M^r Weddell/ Examin'd & stated I am

Yo^r Loving Friend

Is Newton

^[1] ^[2]

^[1]

Memdm

On Satturday {illeg}|2|5. of Sept^r in p^rsence of M^r Neale M^r Clark called \for/ and com̄anded the Money I had stop't upon {T}{illeg}|Bo|wles's acco^t. and then p^d. it to Lewis's in Contempt of this Order

Test. {of} Robt Weddell

Ed. Halley

^[2] {5ob. of W 1667}

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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