An account of the unsold tin, giving its location and possessor

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: T 1/199.24, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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To the Right Honorable the Lords Commissioners

of his Majesties Treasury

May it please your Lordshipps

In Obedience to your Lordshipp's Order Signified to us by M^r. Lowndes the 24^th. instant, we humbly lay before your Lordshipps the following Account shewing the several Quantitys of Tin unsold, and what remains due to the respective persons in whose hands the said Tin lyes for their security, viz.

		Tuns			due to him
In M^r. Moses Beranger{'s} hands in Hollande about	}	1130	–.	£	39 000	–.	–.
Sir Theod. Ianssen about		380	–.		22 000	–.	–.
Sir John Lambert et al		900	..		11 000	–.	–.
In Cornwall & Devon exclusive of Christmass & Ladyday's Tin	}	170	..
In the Tower of London		1500	–.
		4080	–.

Mint office the 26^th. may
1716.

Rich. Sandford

Isaac Newton

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Account of Tin

N^o. 21.

Dated 26^th: May 1716.

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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