Copy of letter concerning the consignment of 1481 ounces of Spanish silver to Newton by the Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica

Author: Robert Walpole

Source: T 27/22.153, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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<153> ^[1]

Sir

M^r Haywood the Lieutenant Governor of Iamaica having by his Letter (of which I inclose you a Copy) acquainted my Lords of the Treasury, that the Lord Archibald Hamilton upon his going off from that Island deposited with him 1481 Ounces of Spanish Silver Coyn, and thereby desired (in as much as the said Money was a seizure & supposed to belong to pirates) their Lordships Directions what he should do therewith; Their Lordship have Orderd the said Lieutenant Governor to consigne the said Silver to you by the first & safest Conveyance as you will find by the inclosed Copy of the Letter to him on that occasion; I am therefore by their Lordships Command to desire you (as soon as the said silver comes to hand) to cause the same to be Coyned, & pay the proceed thereof into the Receipt of his Majestys Exchequer taking a Tally for the same in the name of the said M^r Haywood, as the proceed of the said silver paid in by your hands I am &c^a. 11^th Ian^ry 1716

RWalpole

^[1] Sir Isaac Newton about 1481 Ounces of Spanish Silver consigned to him by Lieutenant Governor of Iamaica

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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