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Holograph copy in T. 1/102.57, MINT00951 (dated 24 June and printed in NC, 4: 494-5).
Advises that the Edinburgh Mint has only one clerk, and that the processes and bookkeeping methods used there do not conform to English practice, with which none of their officers is familiar. Suggests David Gregory and one of the London clerks be sent to instruct them, and requests that a salary for this service be decided on. The London Mint will supply Edinburgh with dies and puncheons until the Edinburgh engraver's work is found satisfactory.
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May it please yo
According to rpsrp
Memorials of what may be requisite for setting on foot the coynage
in Scotl
informed that there is but one Clerk in the Mint at Edinburgh
for rating & standarding, that for want of more C
are sometimes committed & the silver not rightly standarded, that
their assaying & rating & standarding & way of book-keeping
differ from ours & must be set right, & that none of their
chief Officers have yet acquainted themselves with our practise,
I have spoke thr Gregory Professor of Astronomy at Oxford
(as I acquainted rp
Mint in the Tower about going to that Mint to instruct
their Officers & Clerk & assisting them in their business
till Michaelmas nextso that the coynage may be there speedily : And if
& duly set on footrp
humbly propose that for setling this matter, a suitable recompence
for that service may be appointed, the consideration thereof
(if rprp
And whereas Dyes & perhaps Pu
from hence till such time as the work of the Graver of that
Mint shall be approved, I further
those things may be also referred & setled.
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Is. N ewton