Covering letter for a Mint report on a further petition from Cornwall for a renewal of the tin contract, and for 'a further Report upon the present state of the Tin', probably meaning the following entry

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/3/483, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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<483r>

My Lord

I herewith send your Lordship a copy of the Report of the Officers of the Mint upon a Petition from Cornwall for a new contract for Tin at such a price as her Majesty might not lose by, & for taking off a greater quantity of Tin then before. A few months before the date of this Report I computed the price at 3^li 8^s 6^d supposing no more Tin to be received then the consumption would carry off: for preventing of which I added the last clause of this report.

I send your Lordship also a further Report upon the present state of the Tin, and remain

My Lord

Mint Office 28 Aug. 1711

Your Lordships most humble

& most obedient servant

Is. Newton

Lord High Treasurer

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NB. M^r Stratford was not to sell under 9 $\frac{1}{2}$ styvers per pound weight Hamborough. Ninety two pound weight Hamborough make {1}00^lwt averdupois & 50 styvers make 4^s 6 sterling at a par.