Draft list of editorial amendments to be made to a report on Chaloner

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/2/265, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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<265r>

p. 0. ThNB. The acc^ts of y^e Country Mints have not yet past y^e Audit.

p. 2. lin 6. Read. At the same time our commerce with France brought us yearly in arrear of a million, & a vast

{Ib}. l. 30. dele – & the Indies.

{Il} l 32. Read. till all the legal silver coyn was vanished.

pag. 7. l. 20. read. Darius the Medo Persian Emperor whom Daniel calls Darius the Mede coyned pure gold\a King of the Medes & Persians/ ancienter then Darius Hystaspis coynd pure gold

pag 22 lin 5,6. Let y^e summs 700000^li & 130000^li be reexamined.

p. 29. \lin 5/ {illeg} dele milled & {lege} hammered

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dyes by a small stroke of a hammer. That one man ––– cast money w^th a groove, & that he {illeg} the greatest part of y^e ham̄ered money was already recoynd, & that \Peter Blo{n}deau/ the Engineer \{Blemish}/ who \first/ set up y^e way of coynage in the Tower by the Mill & Press coyned some crown pieces\milled money/ w^th a groove but soon left of that way of coynage

p. 83 l. 16. after [purpose] add: & produced Pierce {illeg} as an evidence of w^t he said. M^r {H} And Tho. Holloway

p 87 l 35. sent back to y^e Tower & an account registered & defaced according to y^e {illeg} usuall practise of the Mint, they being of no further use. The {illeg} \country/ Mints had kept their dyes so carefully that none were missing. \Vpon examination it appeared that/ every Mint returned back the same number of dyes of every sort w^ch they had received from the Tower.