Letter to John Scrope recommending Mr Croker as Ingraver

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Ms. 361(2), f. 10v, New College Library, Oxford, UK

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  Copy of letter recommending John Rollos for the newly vacant position of Assistant to the Chief Engraver [T 27/24.175]

Sir M^r Bull the second ingraver in the Mint is dead & & upon inquiring after another who upon the death of the first engraver M^r Croker, may be fit to succeed him, I can hear of no better artist then M^r Rollos the kings del>engraver of Seales . The place in the mint is 80^£ per an̄ with a house & the prospect of succeeding the principal graver when he dyes. And M^r Rollos is willing to accept of it & to live & work in the Mint. And as he is the fittest person that I can hear of I take the liberty to recommend him to your consideration. I am Yo^e

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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