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<title>Partial holograph draft of <ref target="/catalogue/record/MINT00643">MINT00643</ref> (Mint 19/2/319)</title>
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<note type="metadataLine">Aug. 1717, <hi rend="italic">c.</hi> 647 words.</note>
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<p>On a printed summons dated 10 August 1717 to a meeting of the Commission for Building Fifty New Churches (reprinted in <hi rend="italic">NC</hi>, 6: 406-7): the same sheet has also been used for holograph jottings on chronology and Greek literature.</p>
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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="2016-08-29">Transcribed by <name>Will Scott</name></change>
    <change when="2016-09-23"><name>Will Scott</name> finished transcription</change>
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<p xml:id="par2"><handShift new="#printed" scribe="Printed"/><hi rend="large">Y</hi>OU are desired to Meet the Lords and <lb xml:id="l1"/>others the Commissioners appointed <lb xml:id="l2"/>by His Majesty for <hi rend="italic">Building the</hi> the <hi rend="bold">Fifty New Churches</hi> <hi rend="italic">in and about the Cities of</hi> London <hi rend="italic">and</hi> Westminster, <hi rend="italic">&amp;c</hi> on <handShift new="#unknown" scribe="Unknown_Hand"/>Thursday the 15th <lb xml:id="l3"/><handShift new="#printed" scribe="Printed"/>Day of <handShift new="#unknown" scribe="Unknown_Hand"/>this augst — <handShift new="#printed" scribe="Printed"/>at <handShift new="#unknown" scribe="Unknown_Hand"/>ten <handShift new="#printed" scribe="Printed"/>of the <lb xml:id="l4"/>Clock in the <handShift new="#unknown" scribe="Unknown_Hand"/>fore <handShift new="#printed" scribe="Printed"/>noon, at <handShift new="#unknown" scribe="Unknown_Hand"/>the Pallace yard in <choice><abbr>Westmr.</abbr><expan>Westminster</expan></choice> —  <lb xml:id="l5"/><handShift new="#printed" scribe="Printed"/>to proceed in the Executing of the Autho<lb type="hyphenated" xml:id="l6"/>rities, and Transacting the Affairs of the <lb xml:id="l7"/>said Commission. Dated the <handShift new="#unknown" scribe="Unknown_Hand"/>tenth <lb xml:id="l8"/><handShift new="#printed" scribe="Printed"/>Day of <handShift new="#unknown" scribe="Unknown_Hand"/>August – <handShift new="#printed" scribe="Printed"/>171<handShift new="#unknown" scribe="Unknown_Hand"/>7 —</p>
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    <p xml:id="par4"><handShift new="#in" scribe="Isaac_Newton"/>59<del type="cancelled">4</del>6 Perdiceas &amp; Caramus <unclear reason="foxed"><gap reason="foxed" unit="words" extent="1"/><add place="supralinear" indicator="no"><gap reason="foxed" unit="words" extent="1"/></add> <del type="strikethrough"><gap reason="foxed" unit="words" extent="1"/></del><add place="supralinear" indicator="no"><gap reason="foxed" unit="words" extent="1"/></add></unclear> of Phi<supplied reason="blot" cert="medium">don</supplied> <gap reason="hand" unit="words" extent="1"/> <choice><abbr>y<hi rend="superscript">e</hi></abbr><expan>the</expan></choice> <choice><abbr>kingd<hi rend="overline">o</hi></abbr><expan>kingdom</expan></choice> of <lb xml:id="l9"/>Macedon. Phidon introduces weights &amp; measures &amp; the coining of silver money.</p>
    <p xml:id="par5">584 Phidon presides in the 49<hi rend="superscript">th</hi> Olympiad.</p>
    <p xml:id="par6">580 Phidon being overthrown, <unclear reason="blotDel" cert="medium">two</unclear> men are chosen by lot to preside out of the <unclear reason="hand" cert="low">enly</unclear> <lb xml:id="l10"/>ellis to preside in the Olympic games &amp; called <unclear reason="hand" cert="low">Heleriadica</unclear>.</p>
    
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    <p xml:id="par7"><foreign xml:lang="lat">D<hi rend="superscript">no</hi> <del type="cancelled"><gap reason="illgblDel" unit="chars" extent="3"/></del><add place="supralinear" indicator="yes">nostro supremo</add> Georgio Dei Gralia insignæ Britannæ Franci<del type="cancelled"><gap reason="illgblDel" unit="chars" extent="1"/></del> et Hebern. Regi <lb xml:id="l11"/>Fidei Defensori in sexcentis libris &amp;c</foreign></p>
    <p rend="right" xml:id="par8"><hi rend="large"><choice><abbr>S<hi rend="superscript">r</hi></abbr><expan>Sir</expan></choice> Isaac: Newton <choice><abbr>Kt</abbr><expan>Knight</expan></choice></hi></p>
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    <p rend="indent0" xml:id="par10">Whereas his <del type="strikethrough">said</del> sacred Majesty above mentioned hath by Warrant under his <lb xml:id="l14"/>signe Manual dated the <space dim="horizontal" unit="chars" extent="8"/> day of this present August commanded <lb xml:id="l15"/><choice><abbr>S<hi rend="superscript">r</hi></abbr><expan>Sir</expan></choice> Issac Newton <del type="cancelled"><gap reason="illgblDel" unit="chars" extent="1"/></del><choice><abbr>Kn<hi rend="superscript">t</hi></abbr><expan>Knight</expan></choice> Master &amp; <choice><abbr>W<hi rend="superscript">r</hi></abbr><expan>Worker</expan></choice> of his Mint in the Tower of London <lb xml:id="l16"/>to coine half pence &amp; farthings of fine British Copper <del type="strikethrough">so that twent</del> which <lb xml:id="l17"/><add place="lineBeginning supralinear" indicator="yes">when heated red hot</add> will spread thin under the hammer <del type="strikethrough">&amp; <unclear reason="del"><gap reason="del" unit="words" extent="3"/></unclear></del> so that twenty &amp; <choice><sic>thre</sic><corr>three</corr></choice> <lb xml:id="l18"/>pence may make a pound weight Averdupois as nearly as is practicable. <lb xml:id="l19"/><add place="lineBeginning" indicator="no">&amp;</add> to pay the Importer for such rates as the Lords <choice><abbr>Comm<hi rend="superscript">rs</hi></abbr><expan>Commissioners</expan></choice> <lb xml:id="l20"/><del type="cancelled"><unclear reason="del" cert="high">the</unclear></del> <add place="supralinear" indicator="yes"><hi rend="superscript">Majesties</hi></add> Treasury now being or the Lord <choice><abbr>H.</abbr><expan>High</expan></choice> <choice><abbr>Tr.</abbr><expan>Treasurer</expan></choice> or <choice><abbr>L<hi rend="superscript">ds</hi></abbr><expan>Lords</expan></choice> <choice><abbr>Comm<hi rend="superscript">rs</hi></abbr><expan>Commissioners</expan></choice> of the <choice><abbr>Treãry</abbr><expan>Treasury</expan></choice> for the <lb xml:id="l21"/>time being shall <del type="strikethrough">approve, not</del> allow not exceeding eighteen pence by the pound <choice><abbr>w<hi rend="superscript">t</hi></abbr><expan>weight</expan></choice> <lb xml:id="l22"/>the one half thereof in money upon receiving the said Copper &amp; the other half <lb xml:id="l23"/>in money &amp; copper together upon returning back the scissel the said scissel being <lb xml:id="l24"/>recconed at the same price by the pound weight with the copper imported: Now <lb xml:id="l25"/>the Condition</p>
    
    <p xml:id="par11">The <del type="strikethrough">Greeks</del><add place="supralinear" indicator="no"><del type="strikethrough"><gap reason="copy" unit="chars" extent="4"/><unclear reason="copy">pegas</unclear></del> Greeks</add> wrote nothing in Prose before the conquest of Asia <unclear reason="hand"><del type="over"><gap reason="over"/></del><add place="over" indicator="no">by</add></unclear> Cyrus. <unclear reason="hand" cert="low">Thea Pherecides <lb xml:id="l26"/>Squius &amp; Cadmus Milesius</unclear> <del type="strikethrough">wer</del> taught to write in Prose. <del type="cancelled">And</del> <del type="over">i</del><add place="over" indicator="no">I</add>n the reign of Darius Hystaspis <del type="strikethrough">Pherecides</del> <lb xml:id="l27"/>or soon after Pherecides <del type="over"><gap reason="over" unit="chars" extent="1"/></del><add place="over" indicator="no">A</add>lbeniensis <del type="strikethrough">who</del> wrote of Antiquities &amp; digested his work by genealogies <lb xml:id="l28"/><unclear reason="hand">Epineaides</unclear> the historian proceeded also by Genealogies. <del type="cancelled">And</del> Hallanicus who was 12 years older <lb xml:id="l29"/>then Herodotus digested his history by the <add place="supralinear" indicator="yes"><unclear reason="hand" cert="low">ages</unclear> or</add> successions of the Priestesses of Iuno Argiva <lb xml:id="l30"/>Others digested theirs by th<del type="over">e</del><add place="over" indicator="no">o</add>se of the Archons of Athens or Kings of the Lacedemonians making <lb xml:id="l31"/>their <del type="cancelled">ages</del><add place="supralinear" indicator="no">successions</add> or reigns equipollent to generations, &amp; recconing <add place="supralinear" indicator="yes">about</add> three generations to an hundred years. <lb xml:id="l32"/>Ephorus the disciple of Isocrates – – about repugnances. <del type="strikethrough"><unclear reason="del">Platarah</unclear> tells us that</del><add place="supralinear" indicator="no">Now</add> since <unclear reason="hand">Eratosthenes</unclear> <lb xml:id="l33"/>&amp; Apollodorus <del type="strikethrough">&amp; Eratosthenes</del> computed the times by the reigns of the kings of Sparta &amp; (as appears <supplied reason="foxed">in</supplied> <lb xml:id="l34"/>their Chronology still followed) made the 17 reigns between the return of the Heraclitus &amp; the battel at Thera<supplied reason="foxed">mo</supplied><lb xml:id="l35"/>pylae <del type="strikethrough"><gap reason="illgblDel" unit="words" extent="1"/> to</del> take up 622 years, <choice><abbr>w<hi rend="superscript">ch</hi></abbr><expan>which</expan></choice> is after the rate of 36<formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mfrac><mn>1</mn><mn>2</mn></mfrac></math></formula> years years to a reign &amp; yet kings reign <tei:gap xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" reason="foxed" unit="words" extent="1"/> <tei:lb xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="l36"/><tei:del xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="strikethrough">another</tei:del> at a moderate reconing but about 18 or 20 years a piece one with another: I have drawn <tei:add xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="supralinear" indicator="yes">up</tei:add> <tei:unclear xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" reason="foxed" cert="low">ten follow</tei:unclear> <tei:lb xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="l37"/>table so as to <tei:del xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="strikethrough">make</tei:del> <tei:add xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="supralinear" indicator="yes">free <tei:unclear reason="hand" cert="low">chronoly</tei:unclear></tei:add> <tei:del xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="strikethrough">answer to the course of nature <tei:gap reason="illgblDel" unit="words" extent="2"/> it</tei:del> from the repugnances complained of by Plad<tei:unclear xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" reason="foxed">ar</tei:unclear><tei:gap xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" reason="foxed" unit="chars" extent="2"/> <tei:lb xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="l38"/>and to make it answer <tei:add xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="supralinear" indicator="yes"><tei:del type="strikethrough">better</tei:del></tei:add> to the course of nature &amp; <tei:del xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="strikethrough"><tei:gap reason="illgblDel" unit="chars" extent="5"/></tei:del><tei:add xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="supralinear" indicator="no">sent with the</tei:add> <tei:gap xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" reason="faded" unit="chars" extent="3"/> sacred History. 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