Catalogue Entry: THEM00027

Transcripts of acts and other papers relating to college privileges, particularly the right of King's to choose its own Provost.

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Keynes Ms. 124, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Custodial History

Bought at the Sotheby sale by Keynes for £5.

Sotheby Lot

SL192

Contents

The basis of Newton's attempt to apply for the provostship of King's College in the summer of 1689 (see Westfall, Never At Rest, 480-81).

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