Memorandum: 'Plate Melted att the Tower anno 1696'

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/2/564, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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Plate Melted all the Tower Anno 1696

Weight before Melted			Weight after Melted			Totall Worsness			Totall Wast
_lwt			_lwt	_oz	_dwt	_lwt	_oz	_dwt	_lwt	_oz	_dwt
22884:	0:	0	22716:	3:	15	684:	11:	9	167:	8:	5

Attest by Robert Rayner.

Examined by John Seacroft.

Totall Worsness is 1^s: 10^d $\frac{1}{4}$ per pound weight

Totall Wast is 0: 5: $\frac{1}{4}$ per pound weight

The weight before melting by the account of M^r Reynor 22884^lwt: 1^oz. 15^dwt

The weight after melting by the account of M^r Reynor 22716. 3. 15 by the Mint account 22804. 2. 0. The reason of the difference is the recconing of an Ingot for plate in the Mint account which in the other account is recconed for hammered money.

Total worsness by both accounts 684^lwt. 11^oz. 9^{dw^t}.

Total wast by M^r Reynors account 167. 8. 5, by the mint account 79^{lw^t}. 11^oz. 15^{dw^t}. Granes {paid} per pound weight.

Worsness of the whole by the mint account 7^{dw^t}. 5^gr by M^r Reynors account 7^{dw^t} 5^gr $\frac{2}{3}$ . that is 2^s. 1^d. per pound weight

Wast of the whole by that Mint account is (20 $\frac{1}{5}$ grains, that is 2^d $\frac{7}{8}$ & deducting a penny for granes or sweep there remains) 1^d $\frac{7}{8}$ which is that same wast with that of the hammered money. By M^r Reynors account the wast is 6^d. & deducting that sweep. 5^d per pound weight which certainly is too much.