Copy of note requesting Sir Isaac Newton to lay an account of the produce of the coinage duty before the House of Commons

Author: William Lowndes (Secretary to the Treasury)

Source: T 27/22.46, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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<46> ^[1]

Sir

His Majesty having signifyed his pleasure that an account be forthwith layd before the House of Commons of the Clear produce of the Coynage Duty for the three severall Years last past respectively And also of the charge of Coyning Gold & Silver money And the Established charge of the Mint in England & Scotland and Incident charges attending the same for the said three years respectively the Lords Commissioners of his Majestys Treasury desire you to cause the said Account to be forthwith made up and laid before the House of Commons I am &c

16 February 1715/6 W^m Lowndes

^[1] Sir Isaac Newton to lay an Account of the Coynage duty before the House

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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