495): Rotherham appears to be 'a trifler more fit to embroyle the coinage then to mend it'

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/1/494, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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  Referral of MINT00871 (Mint 19/1/486-7), with another copy of it [MINT 19/1/495]

<494r>

In obedience to an Order of Reference of the late Lords Iustices dated 11^th Octob. 1720 upon a Memorial of M^r John Rotherham proposing a new method of coyning the moneys of Gold & Silver so as to prevent the counterfeiting thereof & to make it more durable provided he may be assured of a Reward before he discovers his secret & praying that it may be examined: I humbly represent that he offers nothing to be examined & without examination I am in the dark & know not what report to make. I take him to be a trifler more fit to embroyle the coinage then to mend it.

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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