Response to the clerks' petition for a pay increase [presumably <ref target="/catalogue/record/MINT00029">MINT00029</ref> (Mint 19/2/498)] Isaac Newton c. 272 words The Newton Project Oxford 2017 Newton Project, University of Oxford

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 6 December 1698, c. 272 words. Treasury

[This recommendation, and similar ones of 1702, 1705 and 1718, were all overruled by the Treasury: see Craig, NATM, 114.]

Strongly recommending rises of between £10 and £20 p.a. (ie. 50%) as their current salaries are not enough to live on, despite 'there being to our certain knowledge, great diligence & care requird of them, & no manner of proffitts or perquisites besides the bare salaries'.

 MINT 19/2/499, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK UKSurreyKew, RichmondNational Archives MINT 19/2/499 6 December 1698 England English Clerical Hand MintPersonnel and Administration Catalogue information compiled by Rob Iliffe, Peter Spargo & John Young Catalogue exported to teiHeader by Michael Hawkins Transcribed by Will Scott
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To the Rht.Right HonbleHonourable the Lords Commissrs.Commissioners of his MajtysMajestys Treasury, a Report of the Officer of the Mint in the Tower.

May it please Yr.Your LoppsLordshipps

In obedience to Yr.Your LordppsLordshipps Order of Reference of the 6th. of Octobr. last, Wee have considerd the annexed Petition: and humbly represent to Yr.Your LoppsLordshipps, that the Wardens 2 Clerks, the Masters 3 Clerks, the Comptrolers Clerk, and the Clerk to the King's chief Clerk have but 40Ls pr.per An.Annum salary each, without any fees or perquisites whatever, which Wee humbly conceive to be insufficient for their maintenance.

Wee also beg leave further to represent to Yr.Your LoppsLordshipps that diverse Ledgers, & other books must be transcrib'd; which, with the ordinary business of the Mint, will require severall years to complete them And that the Assay-masters Clerk has but 20Ls. prper AnnmAnnum and the Surveyor's Clerk but 10Ls. pr.per Annm.Annum altho' the latter has a new duty impos'd upon him, to attend the sinking of yethe dies, & to keep an Acct.Account thereof; yet has no consideration for that service.

Wee are therefore humbly of opinion that the Clerks to the Assay-master, & Surveyor of yethe meltings may very well deserve an Augmentation of 10Ls pr.per Annum And the abovementioned Clerks an Augmentation of 20Ls pr.per An.Annum each, to their present salaries; their attendance at the Mint being incompatible with any other business; and there being to our certain knowledge, great diligence & care requird of them, & no manner of proffitts or perquisites besides the bare salaries.

All which is most humbly submitted to Yr.Your LoppsLordshipps.

Tower Mint Office 6th. decembr. 1698°.