Copy of letter requesting an account of the gold and silver coins of the kingdom

Author: William Lowndes (Secretary to the Treasury)

Source: T 27/22.220b, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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  Letter concerning the state of the gold and silver coins [T 1/208.43]

<220b> ^[1]

Sir

The Lords Commissioners of his Majestys Treasury desire You to prepare & lay before their Lordships a State of the Gold & Silver Coins of this Kingdom both as to their Weight & Fineness with the Difference in Value between a Guinea & 21^sh: & 6^d in Silver together with Your Observations & Opinion And their Lordships being Informed that great Quantities of Silver Coins are melted by several persons for their private Lucre contrary to Law to direct You to propose what Method you think will be most Effectual for preventing & discouraging that evil practice I am &c 12 Aug^t. 1717

W Lowndes.

^[1] Sir Isaac Newton about the silver Coin & Gold coin &c

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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