Copy of note accompanying the memorial of Henry Smithson relation to prosecutions of coiners

Author: William Lowndes (Secretary to the Treasury)

Source: T 27/21.170, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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Officers of the Mint about M^r. Smithson

Gentlemen

My Lord Treasurer Commands me to send You the enclosed Memoriall of Henry Smithson relating to severall Prosecutions against false Coiners together with an Account of his Charges in carrying on the same His Lordship is pleased to direct You to consider the Matters contained therein and let him have a true State thereof together with Your Opinion what is fit to be done thereupon I am &c^a. 16^th April 1714

W^m Lowndes

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P.S.

The Petitioner having since the Writing of this Letter presented to my Lord another the same is here also enclosed for your Consideration & to hear him thereupon if you think fit.

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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