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                <title>Letter from Robert Blackborn to Newton on the East India Company's Charter for coining in India</title>
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<note type="metadataLine">30 December 1699, <hi rend="italic">c.</hi> 70 words.</note>
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                    <p>Printed in <hi rend="italic">NC</hi>, 4: 317-18.</p>
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