471), also dated 13 April 1724

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/2/466, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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<466r>

To the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of his Majesties Treasury.

May it please your Lordships

In obedience to your Lordships Order signified to me by M^r Sc{r}ope in his Letter of 10 Apr. instant, concerning the trial of the Pix of copper moneys coyned by M^r Wood at Bristoll, I humbly represent that the moneys there reserved for a trial are kept lockt up in a box under the keys of Mr Wood & the Comptroller of that Coynage, or of their Deputies. And that in my most humble opinion the triall thereof may be more authentick & satisfactory & something cheaper if the Box before opening be brought up to London, & the moneys be tried in his Majesties Mint in the Tower before the Officers of the said Mint & before the two parties M^r Wood & the Comptroller of that coynage who are both in town & their Deputies & one or two Gentlemen of Ireland whom your Lordships may think fit to give leave to be present if desired, & before such person or persons as your Lordships or his Majesties Privy Council shal appoint to see the trial performed & report the event to your Lordships. And at that same time any other parcel or parcels of copper moneys old or new may be tried there before the same persons & the weight & value ascertained & compared with the value of the copper moneys now coyned at Bristol & the trial reported to your Lordships.

But if your Lordships had rather that the copper Pix be tried at Bristoll, I will look out for a man to do it & treat with him & see him instructed & furnished with necessaries with all convenient speed.

All which is most humbly submitted to your Lordships great Wisdome

Mint Office.
Apr. 13. 1724.

Isaac Newton