Catalogue Entry: MINT00584

Report on gold from the West Indies brought to the Mint by the South Sea Company

Author: Hopton Haynes

Source: MINT 19/1/108, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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Haynes has returned four bad ingots for refinement, and considers another seven ingots suspect. The Company insists they are sound. Requests a trial in the presence of Newton and the Company's refiner and agent.

Printed in NC, 7: 352-3.

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