Copy of a referral of the petition of W. Wood for supplying copper for coinage

Author: William Lowndes (Secretary to the Treasury)

Source: T 27/22.424, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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<424> ^[1]

Sir

The inclosed Petition of W. Wood Gent having been laid before the Lords Commissioners of His Majestys Treasury praying that he may be permitted to Furnish such Copper as shall be wanting for the Copper Coinage at 17^d $\frac{1}{2}$ per pound Their Lordships Command me to transmitt the same to You and are pleased to direct You to take the Same into Your Consideration and Report to them Your opinion what may be fitt to be done therein I am &c 4^th. Iune 1719.

W^m: Lowndes

^[1] Sir Isaac Newton about W: Wood.

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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