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<title>Application for a licence to supply the Mint with copper, with details of how best to organise the work if this is granted</title>
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<authority>The Newton Project</authority>
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<date>2017</date>
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<note type="metadataLine">30 December 1707, <hi rend="italic">c.</hi> 144 words.</note>

<note n="recipient"><persName key="nameid_1" sort="Newton, Isaac" ref="nameid_1" cert="medium" xml:base="http://www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk/catalogue/xml/persNames.xml">Isaac Newton</persName></note>
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<p>Calendared in <hi rend="italic">NC</hi>, 7: 456 (no. X.734).</p>
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<change when="2001-01-01" type="metadata">Catalogue information compiled by Rob Iliffe, Peter Spargo &amp; John Young</change>
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    <change when="2017-03-13">Transcribed by <name>Will Scott</name></change>
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    <p rend="right" xml:id="par1">Derby <choice><abbr>y<hi rend="superscript">e</hi></abbr><expan>the</expan></choice> 30<hi rend="superscript">th</hi>: Decb<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> <hi rend="underline">1707</hi></p>
    
    <p xml:id="par2"><hi rend="larger"><choice><abbr>S<hi rend="superscript">r</hi></abbr><expan>Sir</expan></choice></hi> <hi rend="large">If</hi> my proposall for Supplying with <lb xml:id="l1"/>Copper be the most reasonable And if my <lb xml:id="l2"/>Lord <choice><sic>shold</sic><corr>should</corr></choice> accept thereof, then I am to beg <lb xml:id="l3"/>a favor of you as vi<hi rend="overline">z</hi></p>
    
    <p xml:id="par3">That in considderration of the trouble <lb xml:id="l4"/>and charg I may be att in vending hyring <lb xml:id="l5"/>a servant and house for that business I will <lb xml:id="l6"/>give you foure pounds <choice><orig>ꝑ</orig><reg>per</reg></choice> ton to take <lb xml:id="l7"/>that part from my hands</p>
    
    <p xml:id="par4">Youre moniers being many can doe <lb xml:id="l8"/>that busines if you thinke itt convenient</p>
    
    <p xml:id="par5">On the 11<hi rend="superscript">th</hi>: Ian<hi rend="superscript">r</hi>y I designe to be at <choice><sic>Loer</sic><corr>Lower</corr></choice> <lb xml:id="l9"/>Redbrooke neare Monmouth and stay <lb xml:id="l10"/>there till <choice><abbr>y<hi rend="superscript">e</hi></abbr><expan>the</expan></choice> <del type="cancelled"><gap reason="illgblDel" unit="chars" extent="1"/></del> 7<hi rend="superscript">th</hi>: Feb<hi rend="superscript">r</hi>y then returne to London</p>
    
    <p xml:id="par6">If any new matter arises in this busines <lb xml:id="l11"/>during my absence I shall esteeme itt <lb xml:id="l12"/>as an honor done mee if you will please <lb xml:id="l13"/>to advise</p>
    
    <p rend="indent10" xml:id="par7"><hi rend="large"><choice><abbr>S<hi rend="superscript">r</hi></abbr><expan>Sir</expan></choice> <choice><abbr>Y<hi rend="superscript">r</hi></abbr><expan>Your</expan></choice> M</hi>ost <choice><sic>Fathfull</sic><corr>Faithfull</corr></choice> <choice><abbr>Serv<hi rend="superscript">tt</hi></abbr><expan>Servantt</expan></choice>,</p>
    
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