Catalogue Entry: MINT00106

Personal expenses of previous warden Benjamin Overton for the year ending 6 February 1690 [= 1691] for a warrant to deal with clippers and for being made a J.P. for Middlesex, Westminster, Essex, Surrey, Sussex, Kent and Hertford, with a memorandum in Newton's hand

Author: Benjamin Overton

Metadata: 1691 or later, with additions by Newton from after 13 April 1696, c. 72 words

Source: MINT 19/1/18, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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Notes

[Craig, NATM, 20, takes these to be Newton's own accounts and the date 1690 to be a slip for 1696, but the document reads unequivocally '6^th of ffeb^r 1689 to the 6^th ffebr 1690'. The suggestion that the accounts are Overton's is taken from Westfall, 570, n.65.]

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Printed in NC, 4: 217 (which follows Craig's misdating of 1696).