Copy of note concerning petitions to succeed Brattle as assay master, and supply of copper to the works at Great Marlow

Author: William Lowndes (Secretary to the Treasury)

Source: T 27/20.343, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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Officers Mint
about
M^r Kemp & M^r
Cumberlege &
proprietors of
the Copper works
at Great Marlow

Gentlemen

My Lord Treasurer Commands me to send you the inclosed Petitions of M^r John Kemp, & M^r John Cumberlege each of them praying to succeed M^r Brattle, late Assay Master of the Mint, his Lordship directs you to consider the same, with the other Applications that have been make for the said Office, And that you propose to his Lordship the fittest person in your Iudgment for filling up the said vacancy I am &c^a the 4^th. Feb^ry. 17 $\frac{12}{3}$

W^m Lowndes

This incloses also a proposition of the proprietors of the Copper Works at Great Marlow for supplying Blank peices of Copper for Coyning farthings & halfpence, which you'll consider with all other the papers now under your Consideration relating to the said Coynage, and make Your Report to his Lordship thereupon.

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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