Clerical copy of MINT00597 (Mint 19/2/426) with an annotation by Newton

Author: Unknown, Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/2/397, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Additional Information
- Notes on the Electronic Edition
  - You are currently reading the normalized version of this text. Normalized transcriptions provide a tidied-up view of the original text. Editorial interventions are applied to expand abbreviations and correct textual mistakes. Additions are silently included within the body text and deleted text is not displayed. Switching to the diplomatic view of this text will , and not apply 12 editorial regularizations.
- Revision History
  - 1 January 2001
    - Catalogue information compiled by Rob Iliffe, Peter Spargo & John Young
  - 29 September 2011
    - Catalogue exported to teiHeader by Michael Hawkins
  - 14 March 2017
    - Transcribed by Will Scott
- Download MINT00598.xml and schema (advanced users only)

[Diplomatic Text] [Catalogue Entry]

<397r>

A proposall of the Provost & Monyers To the Honourable Sir Isaac Newton. In Relation to the Coynage of Copper half pence and farthings

Drawing & cutting, Nealing, blanching Scouring & bearing the Waste at per pound.	}	1^d. $\frac{3}{4}$
Coyning. Finding Dyes, & Paying the Ingraver, 40^s. per Tun. as in the Last Coynage at per pound weight.	}	2.

The Founder demands 15^s per cwt for melting into barrs.

© 2024 The Newton Project

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

Privacy Statement