Account of the quantity and value of the Queen's unsold tin held in the Tower or in the hands of various agents

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/3/554, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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To the Most Honourable the Earl of Oxford & Earl Mortimer, Lord High Treasurer of great Britain.

May it please your Lordship

In obedience to your Lordships order signified to us by M^r Lounds's his Letter of the 27^th of Ianuary namely that we should send your Lordship an Account of the whole quantity of Tyn which her Majesty hath paid for that now remains unsold as well in our Custody in the Tower as in the hands of the Agents < insertion from the left margin > for Tyn in Cornwal & Devon & at Hamburgh Holland or elswhere with as neare an estimate as we can of the value thereof < text from f 554r resumes > , We humbly represent that in the Tower there are 1919^Tunns 6^cwt 2^qrs 9^℔ which at 3^li 16^s per cwt (the selling price at present,) amounts to 145869^li. 0. 1. In the hands of the Agents in Cornwall are 835^Tun 3^cwt. 3^qrs. 11^℔ which at 3^li. 15^s per cwt (the selling price there) amounts to 62639^li. 8^s. 7^d. In Devonshire there were 34^Tuns. 18^cwt. 1^qr. 23^℔ which at 4^li per cwt the present selling price amounts to 123200^li. And in the hands of Sir John Lambert & Captain Gibon at Hamburgh there are 960 Tunns which if it can be sold at the same rate will amount unto 76800^li. The Total quantity of the Tinn is 5289^Tunns 8^cwt 3^qrs 15^℔ And the total price thereof, according to the rates above mentioned, is 411127^li 12^s. 10^d.

All which is most humbly submitted