Letter from John Stacy to Newton asking for his support in becoming Keeper of New Prison.

Author: John Stacy

Source: MS Add. 4005.15, f. 82v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

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Sir I being before recommended to your favour for the place of Keeper of New Prison, the Keeper being now dead, & I vnderstand that the Electtion for that place will be on Thursday next being the Twentysixth of this Instant att Hicks Hall where I humbly desire your Worships p^resence vote & Interest for that place for Sir Your humble Servant to Command. John: Stacy

To Sir Isaac Newton Knight in Jarmin Street Humbly Presen{illeg}

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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