Copy of letter requesting an account of the gold and silver coins of the kingdom

Author: William Lowndes (Secretary to the Treasury)

Source: T 27/22.220b, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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  Letter concerning the state of the gold and silver coins [T 1/208.43]

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Sir

The Lords Comm^rs: of his Ma^tys: Treary desire You to prepare & lay before their Lordps a State of the Gold & Silver Coins of this Kingdom both as to their Weight & Fineness with the Difference in Value between a Guinea & 21^sh: & 6^d in Silver together with Your Observations & Opinion And their Lordps being Informed y^t. great Quantities of Silver Coins are melted by sev^l: ꝑsons for their private Lucre contrary to Law {d}|t|o direct You to propose what Method you think will be most Effectual for preventing & discouraging that evil practice I am &c 12 Aug^t. 1717

W Lowndes.

^[1] S^r. Isaac Newton ab^t: y^e. silver Coin & Gold coin &c

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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