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Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/3/522, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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<522r>

The state of a new contract for Tin upon supposition that no more is purchased then the consumption will annually carry.

Paid annually for 1600 Tunns of Tin at 3^li 10^s p^r C stan. w^t		12000
Freight to London		2143
Insurance		1500
Salaries including 30^li to Truro		2980
All incidents in Cornwall & London		1000
Total expence		119533
Interest of 119533^li advanced at 5 p^r cent {illeg}\|d\|uring the sale of about 2150 Tunns of Tin stan. w^t, that is, for a year & 4 months	}	7969
Total charge		127502
Total charge
Disc{illeg}\|h\|arge by the annual sale of 1600 Tunns at 81^li $\frac{3}{7}$ p^r Tun stan. w^t		130286
The ballance remaining to her Ma^ty		2784
At \|y^e\| interest of 6 per cent \({illeg}\|a\|t w^th 10000^li is lent to Cornwall/ the ballance will be to her Ma^ty		1190
In this recconning nothing is allowed for unforeseen accidents

The Tinn imported from Devonshire is about 40 or 45 Tunns p^r an.
The total exportation about 1550 or 1560 Tunns p^r an stan w^t.
Left in her Ma{illeg}|j|esties hands per an about 80 or 90 Tunns stan w^t.

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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