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<title>Unfinished holograph draft of a covering letter forwarding <ref target="/catalogue/record/MINT00404">MINT00404</ref> (Mint 19/3/121), suggesting that the money needed should be found from coinage duty and from Stewart's executors</title>
<author xml:id="in"><persName key="nameid_1" sort="Newton, Isaac" ref="nameid_1" xml:base="http://www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk/catalogue/xml/persNames.xml">Isaac Newton</persName></author>

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<extent><hi rend="italic">c.</hi> <num n="word_count" value="157">157</num> words</extent>
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<authority>The Newton Project</authority>
<pubPlace>Oxford</pubPlace>
<date>2017</date>
<publisher>Newton Project, University of Oxford</publisher>
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<note type="metadataLine">After April 1708, <hi rend="italic">c.</hi> 157 words.</note>

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<change when="2001-01-01" type="metadata">Catalogue information compiled by Rob Iliffe, Peter Spargo &amp; John Young</change>
<change when="2011-09-29" type="metadata">Catalogue exported to teiHeader by <name>Michael Hawkins</name></change>
    <change when="2017-03-16">Transcribed by <name>Will Scott</name></change>
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    <p rend="center" xml:id="par1"><hi rend="large">To the <choice><abbr>R<hi rend="superscript">t</hi></abbr><expan>Right</expan></choice> <choice><abbr>Hon<hi rend="superscript">ble</hi></abbr><expan>Honourable</expan></choice> the Earl of Godolphin <lb xml:id="l1"/>Lord High Treasurer of great Britain.</hi> <space dim="vertical" unit="lines" extent="2"/></p>
    
    <p rend="indent0" xml:id="par2"><hi rend="large">May it please <choice><abbr>yo<hi rend="superscript">r</hi></abbr><expan>your</expan></choice> <choice><abbr>Lord<hi rend="superscript">p</hi></abbr><expan>Lordship</expan></choice></hi> <space dim="vertical" unit="lines" extent="2"/></p>
    
    <p rend="indent0" xml:id="par3"><hi rend="large">In Obedience to your <choice><abbr>Lord<hi rend="superscript">ps</hi></abbr><expan>Lordships</expan></choice> Order of Reference</hi> <lb xml:id="l2"/>signified to us by M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Taylor's Letter of 22<hi rend="superscript">th</hi> Instant upon <lb xml:id="l3"/>the annexed Mem<del type="over"><gap reason="illgblDel" unit="chars" extent="1"/></del><add place="over" indicator="no">o</add>rial of the General &amp; other Officers <lb xml:id="l4"/>of her <choice><abbr>Maj<hi rend="superscript">ties</hi></abbr><expan>Majesties</expan></choice> Mint at Edinburgh concerning the Bullion <lb xml:id="l5"/>given by Act of Parliament for maintaining a free co<del type="over"><gap reason="illgblDel" unit="chars" extent="1"/></del><add place="over" indicator="no">y</add>nage <lb xml:id="l6"/>in that Mint &amp; collected by M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Daniel Stuart now <lb xml:id="l7"/>deceased &amp; left in the hands of his Executors <add place="supralinear" indicator="yes">we have considered the same<choice><sic>.</sic><corr type="noText"/></choice></add>. A<del type="over"><gap reason="illgblDel" unit="chars" extent="2"/></del><add place="over" indicator="no">n</add>d wherea<supplied reason="foxed">s</supplied> <lb xml:id="l8"/>it is <del type="strikethrough">represented</del><add place="supralinear" indicator="no">suggested</add> that <choice><abbr>y<hi rend="superscript">e</hi></abbr><expan>the</expan></choice> said Act of Parliamen<del type="over"><gap reason="illgblDel" unit="chars" extent="1"/></del><add place="over" indicator="no">t</add> is repealed <lb xml:id="l9"/>we humbly represent to your Lordship that the coynage Duty <lb xml:id="l10"/>now collected in its st<del type="over"><gap reason="illgblDel" unit="chars" extent="1"/></del><add place="over" indicator="no">e</add>ad may be properly applyed by <choice><abbr>yo<hi rend="superscript">r</hi></abbr><expan>your</expan></choice> <lb xml:id="l11"/><choice><abbr>Lord<hi rend="superscript">p</hi></abbr><expan>Lordship</expan></choice> to the same uses of that Mint, as may also the <lb xml:id="l12"/>Bullion in the hands of the said Executors. And since the <lb xml:id="l13"/><choice><sic>the</sic><corr type="noText"/></choice> Officers of her <choice><abbr>Maj<hi rend="superscript">ties</hi></abbr><expan>Majesties</expan></choice> Mint at Edinburgh re</p>
    
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