Receipt for Vigo plate

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/5/59, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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Received this 31^th. day of May 1703 of the Honourable the Commissioners for Prizes a parcel of Plate of silver weighing 69^lwt 7^oz 10^dwt & also 3^oz 5^dwt 12^gr of gold to be kept in the Treasury of the Mint till further order. I say received the said gold & silver by me

Is {Newton}

Memorandum that at the same time
I received also of the said Commissioners
for Prizes three pieces of eight

Is. Newton

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M^r. Newtons Receipt for Plate deliver'd in 31 May 1703

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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