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Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/3/151, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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  Report on the Edinburgh Mint [MINT 19/3/181]

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After my hearty commendations, Whereas the Lord of her Majesties most honourable Privy Councill have appointed the day of Iuly next a 9 of the clock in the morning to have a Triall of the

According to your Lordships verbal order that I should lay before your Lordship memorials from time to time of what may be requisite for setting on foot the coynage in Scotland with expedition, I humbly represent that upon being informed that there is but one clerk in that Mint for rating & standarding, that errors in the allay are sometimes committed for want of more Clerks, that their way of computing differs from ours & must be altered, that their assays must also be rectified & that none of their chief Officers have yet acquainted themselves with our practise I have desired D^r Gregory the Astronomy at Oxford & ne of the Clerks in the Mint in the Tower to go from hence to instruct their Officers & Clerks & see that the coynage be there duly set on foot & for that end to stay there till next Michaelmas: & if your Lordship approves thereof I humbly desire that for their encouragement it may be referred to to such persons as your Lordship shall think fit to consider of a suitable allowance for that service & out of what fund it shall be paid.

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