Reports the East India Company's offer to take a hundred tons of tin in lieu of money owed it by the Treasury for saltpetre

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/3/557, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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<557r>

To the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of her Majestys Treasury.

May it please your Lordships

I understand by M^r Ward that the East India Company are willing to give 7000^li for one hundred Tunns of Tin to be paid out of the first moneys they shall receive of your Lordships for salt peter & in the same moneys, & desire the Tin may be speedily delivered if your Lordships approve thereof.

All which is most humbly submitted to your Lordships great wisdome.

Is. Newton

^[1]

^[1] Mint Office
Jan 23. 171 $\frac{0}{1}$ .

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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