Catalogue Entry: MINT00178
Two holograph drafts, written as from the Goldsmiths' Company and bullion suppliers, complaining of the excessive fineness of the 1707 trial plate
Contents
Followed by a holograph draft fragment of MINT00173 (Mint 19/1/109).
Notes
[See Westfall, 611-12. This report seems never to have been submitted, but Newton did finally succeed in restoring the use of the pre-1707 trial plates in his indenture of 1718.]
