Catalogue Entry: MINT00491

On a request from the East India Company to be supplied with two mills and two presses for Fort St. George [in Madras]

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/1/509, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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Contents

Mint can see no objection, but advise asking the opinions of the Council of Trade and Attorney General on the economic wisdom and the legality of the proposal.

On reverse: holograph list of twelve queries to be taken into consideration when deciding the matter.

Notes

[Note on dating: replies to a letter of 28 November 1699.]

Printed in NC, 7: 413-14.

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