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Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/2/535, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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  Copy of royal warrant to the Mint to receive plate at premium rates as specified in the Parliamentary ruling of 1 May 1711, issue receipts for it, and melt it at once into shillings and sixpences to be paid into the Exchequer [MINT 19/2/508]

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A. R.

Whereas our Commons in Parliament assembled did on the first instant resolve that for encouraging the bringing wrought Plate to|in|to Our Mint to be coined, there should be allowed to such persons as should so bring the same, after the rate of five shillings & five pence per ounce for the old standard & five {illeg}|sh|illings & eight pence per ounce for the new standard for all Plate on which the mark of the Goldsmiths Company of London or other City is set, & for uncertain Plate not so marked (being reduced to standard) after the rate of five shillings & six pence per ounce. And whereas our said Commons by their Address of the fift instant h{illeg}|a|ve besought us to give directions to the Officers of our Mint to receive in all such {illeg}|w|rought Plate as should be brought to them & to give receipts to such persons as should bring the same for the amount thereof at the several rates and prizes aforesaid & that the same may be immediately coined into shillings & sixpences: Our Will & pleasur{e} therefore is & we do hereby authorize you to & command that you {illeg}|d|o take {illeg}|and| receive from all persons & bodies politick or corporate all such wrought Plate as they or any of them shall bring to our said Mint of the kinds {illeg}|&| standards above mentioned & that you do give such receipts for the same respectively as are desired by the said Address of our Commons & that the same be immediately coined into shillings & sixpences. And for so doing this shall be to you & all others herein concerned a sufficient Warrant. Given

To the Warden Master & Worker

& Comptroller of o^r Mint now & for

the time being.