Proposal by a Mr Eyres of Southwark to melt down unserviceable brass guns from the Vigo booty and extract fine copper for the Mint

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/2/344, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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M^r Eyres a Refiner of Copper in Southward propo \over against {Ludgat} Tower/ represents that there are many old brass Gunns in hands of y^e O{illeg}|f|fice {illeg}|of| Ordnance unfit for use several of w^ch have been taken from other nations & are of a different form from those used in y^e Egnlish Fleet; that they will s{illeg} not sell for above {5}|6|0^li per Tunn; & that {he} for every tenn Tunns thereof he will deliver back into the Mint 7 Tunns of fine copper worth 100^li per Tunn, Her Ma^ty being at the charge of \weighing &/ shipping off those Gunns to be carried cross the river.

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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