Recommend the commissioners for coinage in Scotland be paid a total of £700 between them Isaac Newton c. 255 words The Newton Project Oxford 2017 Newton Project, University of Oxford

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 28 December 1708, c. 255 words. Treasurer

Signed by the Mint Board.

Printed in NC, 7: 468-9.

 MINT 19/3/74, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK UKSurreyKew, RichmondNational Archives MINT 19/3/74 28 December 1708 England English Holograph Unknown Hand Unknown Hand (1) MintEdinburgh Mint MintCorrespondence Catalogue information compiled by Rob Iliffe, Peter Spargo & John Young Catalogue exported to teiHeader by Michael Hawkins Transcribed by Will Scott Will Scott finished transcription Minor amendments made by Will Scott

To the RtRight HonbleHonourable the LdLord High Treasurer of great Britain

May it please yoryour Lord.pLordship

In obedience to yoryour LordpsLordships Order of Reference of the 27th of November last, upon the annexed Memorial of the three Commissioners appointed by her MatysMajestys late Privy Council of Scotland to receive all the ScottsScots & foreign coin see it melted into Ingotts & deliver the Ingotts by weight & assay to be coined & to certify the deficiency; in which Memorial they humbly desire that your LordspLordship will be pleased to appoint them a suitable reward for their own attendance & trouble & for paying their Clerk & other servants & defraying the daily charge they are put to, & grownd their Petition upon their Commission wchwhich bears that they shall be sufficiently rewarded: We have considered the said Memorial, & because the business of these Commissioners requires diligent attendance in their own persons at the meltings & their trust is also considerable, We are humbly of opinion that they may deserve for themselves & their Clerk & other servants the summ of seven hundred pounds to be paid out of such a fund as the Iudges of her Majesties Exchequer in north Britain shall think properthe bullion or coynage duty of that mint so soon as the present coynage shall be ended the equivalent wchwhich was the proper fund being now incumbered.

All which is most humbly submitted to your Lordships great wisdome.

Mint Office 28th Decemb. 1708

C. Peyton

Is. Newton

In Ellis

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