Catalogue Entry: MINT00845

Chaloner's petition to Parliament

Author: William Chaloner

Source: MINT 19/1/497, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

[Normalized Text] [Diplomatic Text]

Contents

(a) (Mint 19/1/497r) [Late 1697.] Holograph copy: 'To the Honble the Knights Citizens & Burgesses in Parliam. assembled the humble Petition of William Chaloner Gent.' Petition against his imprisonment by the Mint officers, which he claims was to prevent him writing a book exposing the corruption of the Mint.

Printed in NC, 4, 259-60.

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