Holograph fragment of report that the informant Henry Smithson has been paid all he is owed Isaac Newton c. 120 words The Newton Project Oxford 2017 Newton Project, University of Oxford

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 1714, c. 120 words.

[See Westfall, 754, on the ramifications of this in the context of Newton's power struggle with warden Craven Peyton.]

Suggests that the £400 p.a. now allocated to the warden for such payments would be better vested in the master to advance to the warden on due occasion.

 MINT 19/1/484, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK UKSurreyKew, RichmondNational Archives MINT 19/1/484 1714 England English Holograph Unknown Hand MintClippers, Coiners and Embezzlers Catalogue information compiled by Rob Iliffe, Peter Spargo & John Young Catalogue exported to teiHeader by Michael Hawkins Transcribed by Will Scott
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That it doth not app upon examining Mr Smithson's AcctsAccounts it doth not appear to us that any money is due to him for prosecuting by Order of the Warden of the Mint.

That Mr Newton is of opinion that for encouraging those that prosecute under the Warden it would have been better that tall the Coynage Duty including the 400l had been imprested to yethe MrMaster for the time being, so that he might advance to yethe Warden any reasonable summs of ready money for that service upon receipts for the same & be discharged in his Accts b yearly AcctsAccounts by those Receipts

To the Right Worshipfull SrSir Isaac Newton at his house in Iermyn street.

Westminster.