Holograph copy of a clause in the master's indenture guaranteeing freedom of entry and exit

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/3/408, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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  - 1 January 2001
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<408r>

And Our Soveraign Lady the Queen doth will and straitly charge by this Indenture all the Officers of the Tower aforesaid, That the Officers aforesaid & all other Officers of the Mint & their servants & also all manner of persons bringing gold & silver to the Tower, shall have free ingress & egress & issue by the Gates & through the same tower & franchises thereof inward & outward at all times without any arresting disturbance letting or gainsaying of the chief Governour Constable or Lieutenant or the Porter or any other Officer or person whatsoever it be for any manner of debt matter or cause whatsoever it be & without any thing given to them or to any other to have such entry or issue.

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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