Copy of letter to the Chester Mint requesting account of hammered monies received and of monies paid out

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 10/2/37v, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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To the officers of his Majesties Mint in Chester

Gentlemen

The Lords Commissioners of his Majesties Treasury have directed us by Express Order of the 18^th. Instant; to appoint you to send up to Vs forthwith the whole Number of Ounces you have received in Hammer'd Moneys on the Customes & Excise, to this time, with the severall Receivers & Collectors Names, & what you have paid them in new Monies And you are to continue to send us the like Account Weekely without faile, that it may be transmitted Elsewhere by

Gentlemen

^[1]

Your Loving Friends

Is: Newton

Tho: Neale

Dan: Brattell

^[1] London Mint office May 20^th. 97

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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