Catalogue Entry: MINT00039

Clerical copy of Treasury warrant dated 3 August 1680, requiring securities of £2,000 each from the three commissioners appointed on 15 July 1680, John Buckworth, Charles Duncomb [Duncombe] and comptroller James Hoare

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. June 1700, c. 390 words

Source: MINT 19/1/192, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

[See Challis, History, 355 and 747, for the appointment of this triumvirate on 15 July 1680 to take over the duties of the suspended master Henry Slingsby. Newton clearly used this document as supporting evidence for MINT00037 (Mint 19/1/64).]

^[1] The contents of this note are only visible in the diplomatic transcript because they were deleted on the original manuscript

^[2] To Our very Loving friend Henry Ayloffe Esq^r. the Kings Remembrancer or his Deputy

Professor Rob Iliffe
Director, AHRC Newton Papers Project

Scott Mandelbrote,
Fellow & Perne librarian, Peterhouse, Cambridge

Faculty of History, George Street, Oxford, OX1 2RL - newtonproject@history.ox.ac.uk

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Catalogue Entry: MINT00039

Clerical copy of Treasury warrant dated 3 August 1680, requiring securities of £2,000 each from the three commissioners appointed on 15 July 1680, John Buckworth, Charles Duncomb [Duncombe] and comptroller James Hoare

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