Requests £1,230 for expenses on George I's Coronation medal

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/3/339, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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To his Grace the Duke of Shrewsbury Lord High Treasurer of great Britain

May it please your Grace

Fifty Medalls of Gold made upon the late peace cost 168^li & at the same rate 300 Medalls now ordered upon his Majestys coronation will cost 1008^li.
There were no medalls of silver made upon the Peace for her Majestys use but the twelve hundred made at her Majestys Coronation took up 634 ounces & a quarter of fine silver which was after the rate of almost eleven penny weight to each medall & if there be now allowed eleven penny weight to each medall that the impression may rise high the silver & refining at 5^s 8^d per ounce will amount unto 187^li & workmanship at 6^d per Medall to 30^li. In all the charge of the silver Medalls will amount unto 217^li which being added to the charge of the Gold Medalls makes the whole charge 1225^li besides the charge of receiving the money which may amount to about five pounds more. I humbly pray your Grace that this money may be imprest to me out of any branch of the civill list for buying the gold & silver & paying for the coynage.

All which &c.

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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