Draft letter from Newton to the Treasury commissioners regarding a petition by Francis Moore

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MS Add. 3964.2, f. 19r, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

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- This document is a reply to:
  Petition of Francis Moore to the Treasury for a share of the estate of the convicted counterfeiter William Hawkins (executed on 26 July), as a reward for ascertaining the extent of this estate [MINT 19/1/485]

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My Lords

I have considered the annexed Petition & find that the Petitioner did apprehend W^m Hawkins & James Harrison & by taking a journey of 36 miles to Lincoln Assizes & staying there a week with his witnesses did prosecute them to conviction & the estate he petitions for amounts to about 10^£ per annum & is not yet seized for his Majesties use & I beleive that suitable rewards such as may be a lease of this estate for so many years as your Lordships shall think fit may tend to encourage Gentlemen in the Country to Serve his Majesty more readily in these matters.

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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