Copy of note accompanying the petition of Justus Brandshagen for reward and charges of inspecting and trying Sir John Erskine's Mine

Author: Chris Tilson

Source: T 27/22.198, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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Sir

Inclosed you receive a Petition Exhibited to My Lords of the Treasury by M^r Brandshagen for reward & charges in pursuing the business of inspecting & trying the Mine in Scotland belonging to Sir John Erskine which was adjudged to contain {a} great quantity of silver; Their Lordships desire you to consider the case of the said Brandshagen, as also of the two M^r Hamiltons that were Encouraged to go on the same affair, and to Report a true State thereof to their Lordships together with your Opinion what is fit to be done therein so as the Warrant signed by his Majesty in favour of the said M^r Brandshagen and One of the Hamiltons may be discharged, as also the further demands of any of them upon the aforesaid Account. This in the Absence of the Secretarys &c^a 17^th Iune 1717

Chr: Tilson

^[1] Sir Isaac Newton about M^r Brandshagen

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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