Copy of letter to the Chester Mint requiring the attendance of clerks to complete their day-books

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 10/2/63r, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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To the Warden, Master & Comptroll^r of Chester Mint

Gentⁿ:

Vnderstanding that yo^r Clerks are much behind hand in their Day-bookes we require them to attend dayly in the Office from eight ith {sic} morning till twelve & from two till five in the afternoon untill their Day-books be compleat to the present time upon pain of suspension for neglect & we direct you to see that they do attend in the Office accordingly & that their sallaries be not paid them any further untill their books be compleat, which we expect will be done in a fortnight

Is: Newton

^[1]

Tho: Neale

Tho Hall

^[2]

^[1] Send up presently the first day books which we suppose are finished long since

^[2] Mint Office octo^r 29: 1697

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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