Catalogue Entry: MINT00828
History of the smith's house since 1577 and of disputes between the Mint and the Ordnance Office as to which of them owns it
Contents
Suggests that the renovations proposed by the Ordnance [MINT00827 (Mint 19/3/434)] should be postponed pending a precise ruling on the boundaries of the Mint.
Notes
Two variant holograph drafts, one on each side. NC suggests the verso may relate to the similar dispute of 1699 [see MINT00820 (Mint 19/3/429-30)], but even by Newton's standards twenty-one years seems rather a long time to let pass between using one side of a sheet and the other.
Related Material
Recto printed in NC, 7: 94-6; verso calendared in ibid., 95-6, n.1.
