Holograph summary of the submissions put to a committee examining Chaloner's case Isaac Newton c. 569 words The Newton Project Oxford 2019 Newton Project, University of Oxford

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 1698, c. 569 words. MINT 19/1/503, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK UKSurreyKew, RichmondNational Archives MINT 19/1/503 Isaac Newton Mr Harris Mr Morris John PeersFrancis NegusJohn Holloway Yardbury William Chaloner Mrs Collingwood Joseph GravenerThomas Holloway Hanwell 1698 England English Holograph Unknown Hand Unknown Hand (1) MintClippers, Coiners and Embezzlers Catalogue information compiled by Rob Iliffe, Peter Spargo & John Young Catalogue exported to teiHeader by Michael Hawkins Will Scott finished transcription Metadata updated by Yvonne Martin-Portugues.

The Warden of the Mint represented to the HonbleHonourable Committee ytthat what past between Mr Harris Mr Morris Peers & Iustice Negus was three months before he knew any thing of their matters. And yet in the Report those things are mixed with what was done under his management as if he had been concerned in the whole.

Peers represented to the HonbleHonourable Committee that when he came first to yethe Warden [wchwhich was Aug. 13] he told yethe Warden ytthat he & IJohn Holloway & Yardbury had coyned about 20s after Chaloners new way, at Egham in Surrey by Morris's directions to draw in Chaloner. The Warden denyed that Peers told him of any such directions or designe to draw Chaloner in. That money was coyned three weeks or a month before the Warden knew any thing of their matters as the Warden can shew by an Information of Peers then made. And yet in the Report Peers makes that money coyned after he came to yethe Warden & the Warden privy & consenting to yethe coyning thereof to draw in Chaloner.

Mris Collingwood who brought Peers the first time vizt Aug. 13 to yethe Warden, deposed before the Hon.Honourable Committe that yethe Warden did then caution Peers against drawing in or tempting any body & that Peers made Answer that there was no need to draw in any body them in, for they (vizt the Holloways) were so forward that they were for hiring horses & riding them out of town & selling them abroad to make a stock to go to coyn with. But in the Report all this is omitted & she on yethe contrary sums to represens the Warden for drawing Chaloner in.

To make out a confederacy of the Mint against Chaloner & ytthat some of them gave Privilege to coyn false money, Peers calls Morris a Messenger of the Mint & yet Morris was no way related to yethe Mint till Dec. 15 when the Prosecution of Chaloner was over. Chaloner has not proved that any two of the Mint conspired or consulted together against him.

The history of yethe Wardens proceedings (as he told yethe is, that about 3 months after what past wthwithout his knowledge between Mr Harris, Mr Morris Peers & Iustice Negus & about three weeks after what past the coyning of the 20s at Egham, he was sent for to the Secretaries Office to examin a man about a new & dangerous way of coyning, that upon examination he found it was reputed Chaloners invention & scarce known fruther then to Gravener Peers503210 Peers & the Holloways, that to put a stop to it he sent for Peers took his Affidavit against Holloway & others Aug 13 & imployed him to find out & discover the designes & practises of the rest that he might take them all up, that about tenn days after IJohn Holloway having notice that they were sett by Peers, trickt Peers into Prison & the Warden bailed out Peers him & took up the Holloways to examin them & upon Tho. Holloways Discovery committed Chaloner that Chaloner by his Agents bought off Tho. Holloway & sent him into scotland & after the sessions gott ff two other witnesses Peers & IJohn Holloway & got them sworn against the King & making a confederacy against the Warden tempted Hanwell to come into it