462-3)

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/1/464, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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  Petition for a reward for informing against owners of illegal presses [MINT 19/1/462-3]

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

May it please your Lordships

In obedience to your Lordships order of Reference of 7^th Ian^ry upon the Petition of Tho Dearsly for a Reward for discovering several Presses sufficient for coining of money: I humbly represent that all the persons taken up on this Information, pleaded that they used those presses in their lawfull trades, & that in the opinion of the Attorney General this plea was a sufficient excuse, & the Presses could not be destroyed without a suspicion of coining. And thereupon the men have been set at liberty without a tryall, & their Presses delivered back to them except one or two which belonged to a person who was suspected of coining & fled. And the men by their not being prosecuted are encouraged to go on. The Law appoints Rewards for prosecuting Coiners to conviction: but I know of no Precedent for rewarding the Petitioner, & feare the consequence of making new Precendents

All which is most humbly submitted to your Lordships great wisdome

Isaac Newton

Mint Office Mar. 1^st 172 $\frac{0}{1}$