Treasury certificate that Newton has taken an oath not to reveal the new method of rounding and edging coin

Author: William Lowndes (Secretary to the Treasury)

Source: MINT 19/1/62, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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I doe hereby Certie {sic} that Isaac Newton Esq^r Warden of his Ma^ts Mint did on y^e 2^d of May 1696 Take his Corporall Oath before y^e R^t Hon^ble the Lords Comm^rs of his Ma^ts Treary not to Reveal or Discover (directly or jndirectly) to any Person or Persons w^tsoever the new Invention of Rounding y^e Mony + making the Edges of it w^th Letters or Grainings or either of them.

W^m: Lowndes.

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

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