Catalogue Entry: MINT00821

Holograph notes on expenditure 1687-8

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/1/345, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

[Normalized Text] [Diplomatic Text]

Contents

Followed by draft regulations that no repairs be done to Mint buildings for the sake of letting them, that workmen who send in bills for such repairs be dismissed, and 'That the Gunner of the Tower do order the Guns in such a manner that upon firing they may do the least harm to the windows of the Mint'.

[A clerical copy of regulations to the same general effect, restricting repair and building work on Mint properties and dated 21 December 1700, is in PRO, Mint 1/7, p. 22.]

© 2024 The Newton Project

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

Privacy Statement

  • University of Oxford
  • Arts and Humanities Research Council
  • JISC