Royal warrant prescribing design of coin

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/3/272, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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<272r>

William R

^[1]

Our Will and Pleasure is and Wee do hereby Command and authorize you, that for the future you cause to be impressed upon Our Sivler Coynes, viz^t. the Five Shilling Piece the two Shillings and Six Pence Piece, the Shilling Piece and the Six Pence Piece, the Royall Armes Marshalled as is depicted in a draught which was directed to be done by Our Right Trusty and Right Entirely Beloved Cownt and Councellor Henry Duke of Norfolk Earl Marshall of England, and shewed to and approved of by us. And for so doing this shall be unto You a Sufficient Warrant in that behalf Given at Our Court at Hampton Court the 19^th day of Iune 1689 in the first Year of Our Reigne.

By his Majesties Command

^[2]

Shrewsbury

The Like Warrant from Queen Mary based at Whitehall the 15^th. day of Septemb. 1691. countersigned by

Nottingham.

^[3]

^[1] Scale.

^[2] To Our Trusty and Welbeloved Thomas Neale Esq^r. Master and Worker of Our Mint.

^[3] Warrant for Coynes {Entered}.

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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