Holograph list of discrepancies between Mint and Exchequer weights

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/1/130, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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DXII oz

|1.| The whole Pile of Mint weights + 24 $\frac{1}{2}$ grains = the Exchequer Pile of sta. W.

The scale being changed, the Mint Pile – 24 grains = the Excheq. Pile of sta. weights

By a medium the whole Piles \are/ equal in weight.

CCLVI oz

|2| The outward weight of the Mint pile – 12^gr = the outward excheq^r weight

The scale being changed, the Mint outward weight – 12^gr = outw^d excheq^r weight

By a medium y^e outward Mint weight – {illeg} – 12^gr = outw^d Excheq^r weight.

CXXVIII oz.

|3| The outward weight but one of y^e Mint Pile + 9^gr = the outwa like w^t of y^e Excheq^r.

LXIV oz.

|4| The outward \Mint/ weight but two = the like Excheq^r weight

XXXII oz.

|5| The outward mint weight but three = the like Excheq^r weight

XVI oz.

|6| The outward mint weight but four = the like Excheq^r weight.

VIII.

|7| The outward Mint weight but two\five/ = the like Excheq^r weight = viij oz

IIII

|8| The outward Mint weight byt six = the like Excheq^r weight = iiij oz.

|9| The two ounce Mint weight = the like Excheq^r weight = ij oz

|10| The ounce Mint weight – $\frac{1}{3}$ ^gr = y^e like excheq^r weight = j oz

|11| The half ounce weight – $\frac{1}{4}$ ^gr = the like Excheq^r weight = 10^{dw^t}

|12| The five penny weigh {sic} = the like Excheq^r weight.

By another tryal of the whole Pile the Mint Pile 6^gr too light in one {a}|c|ale & the scale b{illeg}|e|ing turned the whole mint Pile was 12^gr too heavy. And by a Medium the Mint Pile is {2}|3|^gr heavier then the Excheq^r Pile.