Catalogue Entry: THEM00041

Draft of an Act of Parliament drawn up by Newton (c. 1714).

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Keynes Ms. 147, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Custodial History

Bought by Maggs Brothers at the Sotheby sale for £5 and sold to Keynes on 19 August 1936 for the sale price plus 20%.

Sotheby Lot

SL298

Contents

Requires all persons to subscribe to an oath affirming that the Church of Rome is 'false uncharitable & idolatrous' and that 'the Church of England is in no danger by the succession of the House of Hannover'.

Printed in Brewster (1855), 2: 351-2.

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